Brief History of the Center

The Center was launched in November 2008 with the recruitment of its Director Constantin F. Aliferis MD, PhD, Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. Dr. Aliferis developed the initial vision for the CHIBI working with the NYU senior scientific academic leadership, and then this master plan was refined in consultation with the informatics faculty at NYU, the IT leadership, and the leaders of numerous institutes, departments, and laboratories taking into account broader feedback from all of the NYUMC scientific community.

Administratively CHIBI is a free-standing entity reporting to the Vice Dean for Science Vivian Lee, M.D., Ph.D., MBA. CHIBI faculty play various administrative roles in its diverse entities (for details please see each entity). We work closely with the IT Department, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the Cancer Center, several clinical and research departments divisions and units, several Research Institutes and Centers of Excellence, the Medical Library, our colleagues in the Courant Institute and the main campus. We also have several strong inter-university collaborations and work with donors and industrial partners to further our mission.

In brief the CHIBI includes bioinformatics, health informatics and integrative/ infrastructure projects and initiatives.