Primary Job Title Chief Research Information Officer Primary Organization 
Children's Mercy Hospital
Location Lees Summit, Missouri, United States Regions Midwestern US Gender Male
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Mark Hoffman, PhD, serves as the Chief Research Information officer for Children’s Mercy and the Children’s Research Institute. Dr. Hoffman’s role is to accelerate and improve all types of research at the Children’s Research Institute through resources such as data, applications and technology.
Dr. Hoffman earned his doctorate in Bacteriology
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined Cerner in 1997 as a software engineer where he advanced to the role of Vice President for Genomics and Research.
In 2013, Dr. Hoffman joined the faculty at the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC) in the Departments of Biomedical and Health Informatics and Pediatrics. At UMKC he launched the Center for Health Insights and brought new informatics capabilities to the university, including REDCap, i2b2 and the Cerner Health Facts data.
