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Ling Chu, M.D.

Ling Chu, M.D.

Titles and Appointments

Assist Vice President and Chief Medical Informatics Officer

Assoc Professor

School
Medical School
Department
Health System Chief Medical Office | Internal Medicine

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  • Biography

    Ling Chu, M.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of its Division of General Internal Medicine. She serves as Assistant Vice President and Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) for Ambulatory Services in the UT Southwestern Health System.

    Originally from Hong Kong, Dr. Chu holds a bachelor's degree in pharmacy from the University of Colorado, where she also earned her medical degree and completed internal medicine residency training.

    Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Preventive Medicine in clinical informatics, Dr. Chu joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2017. Previously, she worked as Chief of Medical Informatics for a large medical group in Colorado.

    Dr. Chu specializes in ambulatory primary care with a clinical emphasis on patient- and family-centered care.

    Personal Note

    Dr. Chu's interests outside of medicine include spending time with her family, cooking, reading, and exploring the great outdoors.

  • Education
    Medical School
    University of Colorado School of Medicine (1997)
    Internship
    University of Colorado School of Medicine (1998), Internal Medicine
    Residency
    University of Colorado School of Medicine (2000), Internal Medicine
  • Research Interest
    • Applied Medical Informatics
  • Publications

    Star Featured Publications

    SNOMED CT Concept Hierarchies for Computable Clinical Phenotypes from EHR Data: Comparison of Intensional vs. Extensional Value Sets
    Ling Chu, MD; Vaishnavi Kannan, MS; Mujeeb A Basit, MD, MMSc; Diane J Schaeflein, BS, MT(ASCP); Adolfo R Ortuzar, BS; Jimmie F Glorioso, MS: Joel R Buchanan, MD; DuWayne Willett, MD, MS JMIR 2019
    Count Me In: Using a Patient Portal to Minimize Implicit Bias in Clinical Research Recruitment; Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
    . Kannan, K. Wilkinson, M. Varghese, S. Lynch-Medick, D. Willett, T. Bosler, Ling Chu, S. Gates, M.E.Holbein, M. Willett, S. Reimold, R. Toto JAMIA 2019 703-713
    SNOMED CT Concept Hierarchies for Sharing De?nitions of Clinical Conditions Using Electronic Health Record Data
    Willett DL, Kannan V, Chu L, Buchanan JR, Velasco FT, Clark JD, Fish JS, Ortuzar AR, Youngblood JE, Bhat DG, Basit MA Appl Clin Inform 2018 678-693
  • Honors & Awards
    • Diplomate
      American Board of Internal Medicine
    • Diplomate
      American Board of Preventive Medicine Clinical Informatics
  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • American College of Physicians
    • American Medical Informatics Association
    • Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems
    • Dallas County Medical Society
    • Health Care Information and Management Systems Society
    • Society of General Internal Medicine
    • Texas Medical Association