Vinny Arora and Subha Airan-Javia: Designing A Professional Life

Vineet Arora, MD is the Herbert T Abelson Professor of Medicine in General Internal Medicine. She is an an academic hospitalist and medical educator who specializes in improving the learning environment for medical trainees and the quality, safety and experience of care delivered to patients. She serves as Associate Chief Medical Officer for the Clinical Learning Environment at the University of Chicago Medicine and Assistant Dean for Scholarship and Discovery at the Pritzker School of Medicine.

Dr. Arora is an internationally recognized expert on patient handoffs in health care and also has broad expertise in using technology, such as social media, to improve medical education. Dr. Arora is an elected member to the American Society of Clinical Investigation, which recognizes physician-scientists for an outstanding record of scholarly achievement in biomedical research, and serves on the American Board of Internal Medicine Board of Directors. As an advocate for gender equity across health care, she has leadership roles in several organizations dedicated to advancing women leaders and combating sexual harassment in health care, including Women of Impact, TIME’S UP Healthcare and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Sexual Harassment in Higher Education.  She blogs for the Society of Hospital Medicine : The Hospital Leader. You can follow Vinny on twitter @FutureDocs.

Subha Airan-Javia is an Associate Professor in Clinical Medicine and practicing Hospitalist at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Airan-Javia formerly served in the Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer role. She co-founded TrekIT Health, to bring technology she developed and implemented at Penn to other health systems.

TrekIT was formed to create a commercial software platform for both large institutional health systems and individual clinicians looking for a better way to manage their workflow based on the CareAlign technology platform developed by Subha Airan-Javia and colleagues at Penn Medicine. Product design was born out of a necessity to improve clinician experience, present data in a way that reduces cognitive overload, and to improve the handoff process, while simultaneously reducing medical errors and making the electronic health record more user friendly. You can follow Subha on twitter @subhaairan.