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Genevieve Melton-Meaux, MD, PhD, FACMI, FACS, FACSRS is Professor of Surgery, Director for the Center for Learning Health System Sciences, Core Faculty in the Institute for Health Informatics, Associate Director for the Clinical NLP-IE (Natural Language Processing-Information Extraction) Research Group, and Program Director for the Clinical Informatics Fellowship at the University of Minnesota. She serves as the Chief Analytics and Care Innovation Officer for M Health Fairview leading its Clinical Variation Reduction program promoting appropriate evidence-based care, enterprise data analytics, and informatics. She is President and an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and serves on the Board of Directors for the American Medical Informatics Association. Dr. Melton-Meaux is board certified in general surgery, colon and rectal surgery, and clinical informatics. Her research interests are clinical NLP, surgical informatics, enhancing note usage in EHRs, and improving evidence-based care with Health IT and digital solutions.

Dr. Melton-Meauxís contributions to informatics are at the intersection of informatics research, applied clinical informatics practice, and surgery; she is a unique ambassador to the field of informatics. As Associate Professor of Surgery, Health Informatics Core Faculty and co-Director of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Program at University of Minnesota (UMN), she develops and applies clinical NLP tools - ranging from theoretical analyses characterizing clinical texts, NLP tools for operative reports and other specialized texts, and use of NLP for clinical research; evaluates biomedical terminologies; researches optimal clinician use of patient documents in EHRs; and is a leader in surgical informatics. She was awarded the 2013 Young Investigator of the Year and 2015 Graduate School Advising and Mentoring Award at UMN.