Eric Pan

Overview

Eric Pan, MD, MSc, FAMIA, ACHIP, an Associate Vice President for Clinical Research, is a senior physician informaticist with more than 30 years of health informatics research experience, including serving as project director assessing VA’s interoperability efforts with DoD and private sector, leading public health informatics efforts in field-testing CDC’s MedMorph FHIR-based electronic health record reporting, providing clinical informatics expertise to support Health Center with HRSA’s Health Information Technology, Evaluation, and Quality (HITEQ) center, and supporting mental health informatics efforts with National Institute of Mental Health’s Early Psychosis Intervention Network (EPINet).

Pan has also served as a project director and subject matter expert for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP/ONC), the NIH, HRSA’s Bureau of Primary Health Care, the VA, CDC, and AHRQ, and served in national clinical informatics leadership positions at American Medical Informatics Association.

Before joining Westat, Pan was the senior scientist at the Center for Information Technology Leadership (CITL) and associate director of CITL’s National Library of Medicine (NLM) Informatics Fellowship Program. He led CITL’s analytic and modeling efforts and trained staff in analytic, statistical, programming, and related research methodologies. Pan has also served as an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and is an American Medical Informatics Association Fellow and Certified Health Informatics Professional.

Education

• MSc, Medical Informatics, Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Science and Technology
• MD (with Distinction in Research) School of Medicine, Saint Louis University
• BA (with honors), Mathematics, Pomona College