Russ Cucina, MD, MS

Chief Health Info Officer

Dr Cucina is the Chief Health Information Officer and Vice President for Genetic and Genomic Services for the UCSF Health System, and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine. In addition to his clinical practice, he is responsible for UCSF Health’s analytics, software, and information infrastructure to advance the missions of UCSF and its partners, and the executive leadership of UCSF Health's genetics and genomics laboratories, patient and provider services, information technologies, and strategic partnerships.
Education
2019 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
MS, 2004 - Biomedical Informatics, Stanford University
Board Certification, 2001 - Internal Medicine, Stanford University
MD, 1998 - Medicine, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
AB with Honor and High Distinction, 1994 - Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Honors and Awards
  • Distinguished Paper Award (senior author), American Medical Informatics Association, 2010
  • The AMDIS Award for excellence in applied clinical informatics, Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, 2010
  • Health Care Leadership Fellow, The California Health Care Foundation, 2008
Websites
Publications

  2. Pletcher MJ, Flaherman V, Najafi N, Patel S, Rushakoff RJ, Hoffman A, Robinson A, Cucina RJ, McCulloch CE, Gonzales R, Auerbach A. Randomized Controlled Trials of Electronic Health Record Interventions: Design, Conduct, and Reporting Considerations. 2020. PMID: 32479183


  3. Najafi N, Cucina R, Khanna R. Effectiveness of a Best Practice Alert to Reduce Telemetry Orders-Reply. Volume 179 of Issue 6. 2019. PMID: 31157847


  4. Najafi N, Cucina R, Pierre B, Khanna R. Assessment of a Targeted Electronic Health Record Intervention to Reduce Telemetry Duration: A Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial. Volume 179 of Issue 1. 2019. PMID: 30535345


  5. Murray SG, Yim JWL, Croci R, Rajkomar A, Schmajuk G, Khanna R, Cucina RJ. Using Spatial and Temporal Mapping to Identify Nosocomial Disease Transmission of Clostridium difficile. Volume 177 of Issue 12. 2017. PMID: 29059280


  7. Shah AD, Foster E, Cucina RJ. Mitral regurgitation and pulmonary edema. Volume 26 of Issue 9. 2011. PMID: 21369771


  8. Mourad M, Cucina R, Ramanathan R, Vidyarthi AR. Addressing the business of discharge: building a case for an electronic discharge summary. Volume 6 of Issue 1. 2010. PMID: 20872869


  9. Wynden R, Weiner MG, Sim I, Gabriel D, Casale M, Carini S, Hastings S, Ervin D, Tu S, Gennari JH, Anderson N, Mobed K, Lakshminarayanan P, Massary M, Cucina RJ. Ontology mapping and data discovery for the translational investigator. Volume 2010. 2010. PMID: 21347152


  10. Cucina RJ, Bokser SJ, Carter JT, McLaren KM, Blum MS. Design and implementation of an inpatient physician documentation system using off-the-shelf components. 2007. PMID: 18694019


  12. Sarkar U, Carter JT, Omachi TA, Vidyarthi AR, Cucina R, Bokser S, van Eaton E, Blum M. SynopSIS: integrating physician sign-out with the electronic medical record. Volume 2 of Issue 5. 2007. PMID: 17935249


  14. Cucina RJ, Shah MK, Berrios DC, Fagan LM. Empirical formulation of a generic query set for clinical information retrieval systems. Volume 84 of Issue Pt 1. 2001. PMID: 11604729


  15. Fagan LM, Berrios DC, Chan A, Cucina RJ, Datta A, Shah M, Surendran S. Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp 2001. PMID: