The University of Vermont Medical Center recently announced the appointment of Doug Gentile, M.D., to the position of chief medical information officer. In this position, he will oversee the information services (IS) teams who work on projects in the clinical areas of the medical center. He will also serve as the liaison between medical center providers and IS staff who work on the electronic medical record.
Prior to accepting this position, Dr. Gentile served as the medical director for clinical information systems, overseeing staff who develop computer information systems for applications such as clinical decision-making, electronic imagery, clinical documentation and provider order entry systems.
In addition to a 20-year career in medical informatics, Dr. Gentile is board-certified in both internal medicine and emergency medicine. He has enjoyed a 30-year career in emergency medicine and will continue to see patients in the UVM Medical Center Emergency Department.
Dr. Gentile graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 1981. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Rochester in 1984 and served as administrative chief resident from 1984 – 1985. After completing his residency he joined the Emergency Department at Vanderbilt University and served as the assistant director there until moving to Stanford University in 1991. While in Palo Alto, he worked in the ED while completing a Master’s in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1993. Dr. Gentile joined the UVM Medical Center Emergency Department in 1994. He also began working in the private sector, joining Allscripts, a healthcare information technology company, in 2000, where he served in a variety of roles including chief medical officer for a number of their business units before leaving Allscripts in 2013.