Cornell has created a new role, vice president and global chief information officer, and Dr. Curtis L. Cole – now assistant vice president for information services and chief information officer at Weill Cornell Medicine – will be the first to take up this position.
Pollack said: “The creation of this cabinet-level position, and Dr. Cole’s promotion to the role, was crucial to the university’s response to this challenge. we became the go-getters. leadership in the adoption and use of cutting-edge information technology in our facilities.”
Beginning January 1, Cole will be responsible for the use of information technology in the teaching, research, clinic, student life and management of the academic medical center, and organize IT teams to better respond to changes in education and health, Susan Kelley of Cornell Chronicles report.
Cole will be tasked with creating strategies and policies for digital transformation across the university – main campuses in Ithaca, Cornell Tech and Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City and Qatar, as well as locations difference.
Cornell University President Martha E. Pollack said in a statement: “The creation of this cabinet-level position and Dr. Cole’s promotion to the role was critical to the university’s response. learn to meet this challenge”. “Dr. Cole is uniquely qualified to oversee the scope of Cornell’s IT business, making us a leader in the adoption and use of cutting-edge information technology in our facilities. I.”
In the past as CIO for Weill Cornell Medicine, Cole focused on IT infrastructure, software and web development, and enterprise applications. He is also an associate professor of clinical medicine and population health sciences. And, as an internist, he supervises medical students at the Weill Cornell Community Clinic and serves as a Resident Clinical Innovator at Cornell Tech.
In this new position, Cole will seek more efficient and effective cross-facility synergies between technology resources and systems – developing new standards and metrics for IT oversight while enabling flexible facility for local institutions to develop and support their own unique programs.
“As a student here and a faculty member here, having spent my entire career here, the biggest unmet opportunities for the university stem from the distance between the campuses. ,” said Cole. “We have expertise, data and processes at each facility that need to be shared.”
He added: “One of the biggest challenges in IT management is identifying opportunities to aggregate systems through network effects or scaling – and identifying areas that are better off without them. synthetic.”
Vipin Kamath, associate director of information at Weill Cornell Medicine, will succeed Cole as CIO at Weill Cornell Medicine and will report to him.
