Clinical Informatics

A New Program for a New Era in Medicine

Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine welcomes applicants to the ACGME-accredited Clinical Informatics (CI) fellowship program. This new two-year program is open to board eligible graduates of ACGME accredited residency programs in any primary specialty (Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Medical Genetics and Genomics, Pathology, Pediatrics, Preventive Medicine, or Radiology). We train fellows for various careers in Clinical Informatics, all critical to the transformative era that Medicine is undergoing. We offer preparation for the board examination (administered by the American Board of Pathology for pathologists and by the American Board of Preventive Medicine for all other specialists).

Clinical Informatics is the medical subspecialty that coordinates use by healthcare providers of existing and innovative health information systems in all branches of medicine. Clinical Informaticists play a vital role in teams that plan, implement, and maintain these systems. Our fellows will be ready for careers in roles ranging from clinical care, academic positions, administrative, to the private sector.

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Program Information

Curriculum

Our program covers all aspects of the ACGME Clinical Informatics curriculum with a combination of rotations, projects, and didactics. Fellows will have opportunities to engage with a wide variety of expertise and experiences available within the Northwestern University umbrella, including operational, academic, research, and quality improvement opportunities at Lurie Children’s Hospital, Northwestern Medicine and the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. Across these locations and organizations, fellows will be able to observe how various health systems across Northwestern leverage and solve common issues with electronic health record operations, burnout, clinical decision support, governance, data analytics and research, interoperability, and physician leadership.

Didactics

The curriculum offers didactics in Masters Level courses in Health Informatics or Health Data Analytics. Coursework is provided by the Northwestern School for Professional Studies and are designed to supplement and address potential gaps in the practical rotations and projects in the fellowship. Flexibility in courses are aligned with the courses available within the Masters programs for Health Informatics, Information Design and Strategy, or Health Analytics.

Rotations

The Clinical Informatics Fellowship rotations are designed to immerse fellows within a designated functional unit, offering opportunities for hands-on learning, collaboration, and project engagement. Each rotation will be led by a designated lead faculty member responsible for overseeing the fellow's activities, ensuring alignment with rotation goals and objectives, and facilitating integration into daily and weekly work efforts, meetings, coordination, and projects within the functional unit. Rotations include experiences in Clinical Informaticist roles in hospital operations, clinical bioinformatics, research informatics, data analytics and data science, laboratory information systems, and medical imaging.

Clinical Informatics Learning Round Table

The Clinical Informatics Learning Roundtable is jointly run by the CI Fellows and the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (I.AIM) and serves as a consistent platform for Clinical Informatics faculty to share their diverse expertise, experiences, and insights from various healthcare systems, research labs, and clinical and quality governance structures, ultimately enriching the learning experience for individuals in the field of clinical informatics. CI fellows are expected to present regularly at this forum along with additional informatics learners and speakers from Health IT and Clinician Informaticists at NM, Lurie Children’s, and graduate programs also participate in this bimonthly event.

An expectation of Clinical Informatics Fellows is training in electronic health record design and build. This is provided as an Epic (electronic health vendor used at Northwestern Medicine and Lurie Children’s Hospital) training module. This are typically scheduled in the Fall with an Epic Physician training module

Clinical Experience

In addition to the extensive involvement with all aspects of informatics in hospital operations of different types, fellows will continue practicing in the area of their primary specialty. ACGME requires fellows to maintain clinical practice in their area of specialty. Arrangements with an appropriate clinical department will be arranged, typically within either Northwestern Medicine or Lurie Children’s Hospital.

Eligibility and Requirements

Candidates must be board eligible or certified in Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Medical Genetics and Genomics, Pathology, Pediatrics, Preventive Medicine, or Radiology and be able to obtain an unrestricted permanent Illinois medical license.

Application Process

The program has one Clinical fellowship position for a two-year fellowship starting July 2026. Applications should be submitted through the Electronic Residency Application Service portal (MyERAS). CAP standardized fellowship application is also accepted. We will start accepting applications for the 2026-2028 academic year in 2025.

Please include:

Current CV
Personal statement
Three letters of recommendation

Stipend

The stipend is commensurate with the fellow’s PGY year of training and by previous training and experience. Find stipend information via the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University site.

Why Northwestern?

Housestaff training through McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University provides diverse and challenging clinical experiences and world-class education located in the heart of the beautiful city of Chicago. Learn more on the McGaw website.

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Contact Us

We encourage you to contact Raven Rodriguez at clinicalinformatics@northwestern.edu.

All questions will be promptly answered by the program director.

Program Director

Allan D. Wu, MD has been with Northwestern Medicine in the Movement Disorders program since 2020. Dr. Wu completed Movement Disorders Fellowship training at the University of Southern California in 2001 and was faculty at UCLA from 2005 to 2020. For the last decade, Dr. Wu has worked as a physician informaticist on electronic health record (EHR) projects to improve patient engagement, reduce physician burnout, enhance efficiency, and raise awareness of informatics as a specialty. Dr. Wu is active in the California Parkinson’s Disease Registry and the American Academy of Neurology. At Northwestern, Dr. Wu is the Director of Applied Clinical Informatics at the Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute and will work to develop a vision of learning healthcare systems for patients where the patient care generates real-time information that can guide shared-decision making and drive improvements in the delivery of care.

Associate Program Director

David Liebovitz, M.D., Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, inaugurated the Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program, University of Chicago. He is a Fellow, American Medical Informatics Association. Experience at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine has included serving as Chief Medical Information Officer, Northwestern Medicine, inaugural Program Director, Master of Medical Informatics. Educational activities include teaching in Master degree courses at Northwestern University and University of Chicago. Dr. Liebovitz is an author on numerous publications in the field of Clinical Informatics.