Dr. AbuSalah is a Research Assistant Professor and Core Faculty at the Institute for Health Informatics at the University of Minnesota (UMN). He serves as the Director of Clinical Informatics at the Best Practices Integrative Informatics Consulting and Collaborative Science Core (BPIC) of CTSI’s Biomedical Informatics Program. At his role, Dr. AbuSalah leads the informatics consultation services which provide a full suite of informatics consultations to researchers and PIs. Dr. AbuSalah is also the lead informaticist at the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. Dr. AbuSalah has a rich industry and research background in healthcare data management and analytics with focus on large scale healthcare data integration, Informatics Infrastructure Models, Business Intelligence (BI) and value-based models for the support of patient safety, quality of care and cost reduction.