Vitaly Herasevich MD, PhD

Vitaly Herasevich, MD, PhD, MSc, is a Professor of Anesthesiology and a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Division of Critical Care, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. He has been involved in medical informatics for over 25 years, with a specific concentration on applied clinical informatics in critical care and the science of health care delivery. He joined Mayo Clinic in 2006 and is co-director of the Mayo Clinic Acute Care Informatics Laboratory.

Dr. Herasevich's applied clinical informatics in critical care work included clinical data representation, ambient decision support and alerting systems for early detection of critical syndromes and hospital-wide surveillance. He architected data warehouses in support of clinical decision-making quality and outcomes research. With a longstanding interest in information security and more recently in computer vision, Dr. Herasevich has coauthored over 150 scientific articles and a book, “Health Information Evaluation Handbook” (now in second edition).

Dr. Herasevich has a long mentorship record, appointed with Full faculty privileges in clinical research and also artificial intelligence at Mayo Graduate School, developed the Informatics Curriculum for Mayo Medical School, CCaTS, and the Master in Medical AI programs. Dr. Herasevich contributed as principal investigator, co-investigator, and informatics expert for past and ongoing federally and industry-funded projects totaling more than $115 million in research support. Dr. Herasevich is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM), a Fellow of HIMSS (FHIMSS), a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA), and President of the Minnesota HIMSS Chapter. Dr. Herasevich is active within professional societies and served on the SCCM Tele-ICU committee as chair.