Dr Triola is the Associate Dean for Educational Informatics and an Associate Professor of Medicine at NYU Langone Health, where he is also the founding director of the Institute for Innovations in Medical Education, known as IIME.
Dr Triola and IIME have been funded by the National Institutes of Health, including the Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS) Award program, the National Science Foundation Advanced Learning Technologies program, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the American Medical Association’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education program.
He numerous committees, at the state and national level, that are focused on the development of educational technology and research for the health professions. He gave a TED Talk at TEDMED 2012 and is a co-author of the Biostatistics for the Biological and Health Sciences textbook series. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.
He received his BA from Johns Hopkins University and MD at NYU School of Medicine. He completed residency training in internal medicine at NYU School of Medicine and subsequently served as chief resident for the internal medicine residency program. He completed a research fellowship in medical informatics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
In previous roles at NYU Langone, He served as director of the Division of Educational Informatics within NYU School of Medicine; chief of the Section of Medical Informatics within the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine; associate director of the Center for Health Information Preparedness, Department of Medicine; and director of research for advanced educational systems within the School of Medicine.