
Richard Medford, M.D.
Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer at UT Southwestern Medical Center
Assistant Professor
Department Internal Medicine
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Biography
Dr. Medford is originally from Toronto, Canada. While primarily studying music in college, he was drawn to medicine as a result of the SARS outbreak in 2003 where he played a pivotal role in creating and designing the EMS database that tracked patients across the province of Ontario. He received his medical training at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and returned to Ontario to complete his Internal Medicine Residency and Infectious Diseases Fellowship. He achieved the prestigious Fellowship in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2015. Understanding the future direction of healthcare related to medicine and information technology, he subsequently completed a Clinical Informatics fellowship at Stanford University, becoming the first and only dual trained Infectious Diseases and Clinical Informatics physician in North America. He joined the UTSW faculty in 2018 and currently splits his time seeing inpatients on the General ID service while serving as the Assistant Chief Medical Informatics Officer for the health system.
Education
- Medical School
- Sidney Kimmel Medical College (2011)
- Residency
- Queen's University, Canada (2014), Internal Medicine
- Fellowship
- University of Ottawa, Canada (2016), Infectious Diseases
- Fellowship
- Stanford University (2018), Clinical Informatics
Research Interest
- Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Applied Clinical Informatics
- Clinical Decision Support
- Machine Learning
- Mobile health
- Telemedicine
Publications
Featured Publications
- Personalized Antibiograms: Machine Learning for Precision Selection of Empiric Antibiotics.
- Corbin CK, Medford RJ, Osei K, Chen JH, AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc 2020 2020 108-115
- User stories as lightweight requirements for agile clinical decision support development.
- Kannan V, Basit MA, Bajaj P, Carrington AR, Donahue IB, Flahaven EL, Medford R, Melaku T, Moran BA, Saldana LE, Willett DL, Youngblood JE, Toomay SM, J Am Med Inform Assoc 2019 Sep
- Anal cancer and intraepithelial neoplasia: epidemiology, screening and prevention of a sexually transmitted disease.
- Medford RJ, Salit IE CMAJ 2015 Feb 187 2 111-5
Honors & Awards
- Innovation Tank Winner
Department of Medicine UT Southwestern (2020) - Infectious Diseases Teaching Award
Division of Infectious Diseases (2019) - Hobart Amory Hare Honor Society
(2009) - SARS Hero
(2004)
Professional Associations/Affiliations
- HIV Medicine Association (2020)
- American Medical Informatics Association (2016)
- Infectious Diseases Society of America (2015)
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (2015)