Atul Butte

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – On April 1, Atul Butte stepped into his new role as director of the Institute for Computational Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, taking over from interim directors Neil Risch and Michael Fischbach. The university also named Butte executive director of clinical informatics for UC Health Sciences and Services. In the role, he will assist UC Senior Vice President John Stobo and other UC faculty and staff in the ongoing development and implementation of the UC data warehouse and analytic platform. The platform is intended to provide researchers with tools to use the vast amount of clinical data being generated by the five medical centers in the University of California system to better understand disease and develop more effective therapies ...

UC San Francisco has recruited a world-renowned expert in medical technology, Atul Butte, MD, PhD, to lead the new UCSF Institute for Computational Health Sciences, which will serve as a cornerstone of the university’s efforts to harness the power of “big data,” to lead to faster and more effective cures for patients worldwide ...