Eliel Oliveira, MS, MBA, FAMIA
Role:
Sr. Director, Sentinel Operations Center, Department of Population Medicine
Harvard Medical School & Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
HITAC Member Terms:
Term 1: 1/2022 – 12/2024
Eliel Oliveira, MS, MBA, FAMIA is a Senior Director, at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute (HPHCI) in the Department of Population Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He supports the FDA Sentinel Operations Center at HPHCI providing informatics and innovation leadership and provides executive leadership to the Central Texas Health Information Exchange (Connxus). He has been a key leader for the development of innovative health information technology, including a mobile patient engagement platform—with a focus on involving underrepresented populations in the design process—and a community-wide referral management platform that integrates social services referrals, clinical data, and personal needs assessments to support health care providers manage referrals to social services aligned with clinical decisions.
Prior to joining Harvard Medical School, Eliel led the division of Health Informatics in the Department of Population Health at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously he served as the Chief Information Officer at the Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI) in New Orleans where he led the design and implementation of the Research Action for Health Network (REACHnet) as a Clinical Data Research Network node in the national Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Network (PCORnet). At LPHI, Eliel also provided executive leadership and was a board member of the Greater New Orleans Health Information Exchange (GNOHIE). He previously served as Director of Information Technology for the Louisiana Cancer Research Center and was appointed to support the National Cancer Institute in many biomedical informatics technology design and development initiatives.
Eliel received his Master of Business Administration and a Master of Science in International Development from Tulane University where he also served as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Tulane School of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association and a avid speaker and lecturer on many health informatics topics.