Dr. Fatima Paruk, MD, MPH, is the Chief Medical Officer at Allscripts. Dr. Paruk provides medical leadership to a world-class team to develop, design and deploy predictive models to improve population health. Dr. Paruk is also physician and public health specialist who has been extensively involved in health systems and global surgical initiatives. Using a big data approach, she and her team have made ground-breaking discoveries in the progression of prediabetes. Additionally, Dr. Paruk works to identify gaps in care and promote hospital quality improvement worldwide and remains committed to disaster response. Dr. Paruk has been recognized as one of the Most Powerful Women in Health IT by E&Y and Health Data Management and named one of Becker’s Rising Stars Under 40. She is the Co-chairman-elect of the Community Leadership Board of the American Diabetes Association Colorado.
With investments in big data and cloud computing, physicians and public health experts are collaborating with engineers to design frameworks capable of performing large-scale population health research, including in diabetes.