Clinical Informatics Fellowship
Rochester Regional Health
Fellows
PGY5 Fellows
Jee Lee, MD
Medical School: Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Korea (The Republic of)
Testimonial:
Medicine is entering a transformative era, with unprecedented innovation reshaping healthcare. Clinical informatics stands at the forefront of this evolution, adapting to rapid changes in medical practice. As a dynamic and evolving field, the roles and boundaries of clinical informatics are continually redefined. It’s unlikely that the program’s curriculum and objectives in 2025 will remain unchanged in two years. With AI-powered systems poised to handle routine tasks in the near future, we must strategically prioritize what to focus on, how to conduct research, and which steps to bypass—not only to eliminate redundancy but to push boundaries previously thought unattainable.
The Rochester Regional Health (RRH) Clinical Informatics Program, in collaboration with RIT, has seen remarkable growth since its inception. Renowned for its impactful projects, the program demonstrates excellence and innovation. My interview with the program director and faculty left me feeling warmly welcomed and inspired by their commitment to educating fellows. I am thrilled to join the RRH Clinical Informatics Program and eager to collaborate with the team to achieve our shared objectives while pursuing my personal goals.
Abdul Mannan, MD
Medical School: West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, United States
Testimonial:
As a physician clinical informatician, I play a central role in the development, deployment, and refinement of healthcare technology that all healthcare workers and ancillary staff use on a day-to-day basis. As a physician specifically, I get to provide key user-experience feedback to developers and researchers to help optimize the experience of using technology to augment patient care. As healthcare becomes more digital, fragmented, and complex, it becomes vitally important to make sure technology is used ethically, with security, and actually helps improve patient outcomes, reduce cost, and increase access to good health and being a physician informatician enables me to use my background to accomplish that.
Given that my goal is to be a versatile clinical informatician, RRH provides the most holistic experience to set myself up for a future career in informatics. Whether that is healthcare leadership informatics or healthcare technology consulting, I found that RRH provides the education, resources, and network needed. It’s a large community based system that has achieved Epic HIMS stage 7 with a robust informatics department including physician leadership from various different specialties. Furthermore, through its collaboration with the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Masters in Clinical Informatics degree, the program provides the network, resources, and didactic education needed to learn the fundamentals of the current healthcare delivery model and understand what we can do to change it for the better.
Abhimanyu Aggarwal, MD
Medical School: Maulana Azad Medical College, India
Testimonial:
My personal experience with delivering patient care as an Infectious Disease physician forced me to think about avenues to streamline healthcare services and upscaling it on a community level. This is what drew me closer to Clinical Informatics. CI helps us adapt to the rapidly evolving landscape of systems-based medicine and organizational operations including preparation for any future pandemics and thus, strive for an emotionally and physically healthy public and providers.
The CI fellowship program at RRH offers a wonderful exposure in domains of clinical decision support system, quality informatics, and state-of-the-art technology acquisition and implementation. Two aspects about the fellowship program here that stood out for me were the training in leadership and change management, and the MS-HI degree through Rochester Institute of Technology. It also provides the opportunity to collaborate with state DOH on several projects during elective rotation. I am confident that the fellowship training at RRH will truly prepare me well for the next steps in my career.
PGY4 Fellows
Ethan Kellogg, MD
Medical School: Howard University College of Medicine, United States
Testimonial:
I like Informatics because I enjoy solving large and complex problems, and I look forward to gaining the skills needed to address these problems in the healthcare setting to help fellow healthcare workers tackle today’s and tomorrow’s challenges.
The RRH CI Fellowship emphasizes training us in the next generation of cutting-edge skills and tools needed to succeed in a constantly changing environment, as well as how to manage that change. The faculty takes the time to invest in our training so we can solve important problems in our health system and better serve our community.
Asim Khanfar, MD
Medical School: University of Jordan Faculty of Medicine, Jordan
Testimonial:
What I enjoy most about clinical informatics is the opportunity to improve care on a larger scale. As a physician, it’s rewarding to care for individual patients, but informatics gives me the chance to improve the way we deliver care for countless others. I’m especially interested in clinical decision support and the evolving role of AI in healthcare. I think AI has incredible potential to help clinicians make better decisions, improve quality, and make healthcare more efficient—as long as it’s implemented thoughtfully and always with patients and providers in mind. I’m also passionate about advocating for clinicians by improving workflows and reducing unnecessary administrative burden so they can spend more time doing what they do best: caring for patients.
RGH was an easy choice for me because I completed my residency here and saw firsthand how informatics can improve workflows and patient outcomes. Throughout my training, I had the opportunity to work with and learn from the informatics faculty, and I was consistently impressed by both their expertise and their willingness to teach. Just as importantly, I saw how collaborative and supportive the team was. It was the kind of environment I wanted to be a part of, and I’m excited to continue growing here while contributing to meaningful improvements in patient care.
Mansoor Mubeen, MD
Medical School: University of Virginia School of Medicine, United States
Testimonial:
As a physician, I have always been interested not only in caring for the individual patient in front of me, but also in understanding why healthcare systems work the way they do and how they can be improved. During residency, I saw how much technology, workflow design, and communication systems can affect both the patient experience and a clinician’s ability to provide high-quality care. Clinical informatics allows me to combine my clinical background with my interest in technology, problem-solving, and system improvement. I especially enjoy finding practical ways to make healthcare more efficient, intuitive, and patient-centered.
What I especially value about the RRH Clinical Informatics Program is that the training is practical and closely connected to the work of a large, integrated health system. Fellows learn directly from a multidisciplinary informatics team that includes physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and IT professionals, providing exposure to the many perspectives involved in successfully implementing technology.
I also appreciate the program’s combination of structured rotations, hands-on projects, and academic collaboration with Rochester Institute of Technology. The opportunity to gain experience in areas such as clinical decision support, data analytics, enterprise information systems, leadership, and change management makes the training both broad and applicable to real-world challenges. RRH’s supportive faculty allow me to continue developing clinically while learning how to lead meaningful improvements across an entire healthcare system.