Natalie Pageler, MD
Chief Medical Information Officer
Stanford Children's Health
 

Dr. Natalie Pageler is a board-certified pediatric intensivist and one of the first board-certified clinical informaticists. She is a Clinical Professor of Pediatric Critical Care at Stanford University School of Medicine. She also holds an administrative appointment at Stanford Children’s Health as Chief Medical Information Officer, where she helped lead the organization to HIMSS Level 7 EMR and analytics adoption, as well as a HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence. Dr. Pageler holds a master’s degree in medical education and focused her thesis project on the impact of computerized clinical decision support tools on clinician’s knowledge, behaviors and attitudes. Through her clinical and administrative positions, she has spearheaded the development of Stanford Children’s world class Digital Health program as well as multiple innovative computerized clinical decision support tools to provide point-of-care education to clinicians and enhance quality of care, efficiency, and patient safety. Dr. Pageler has also been active in shaping the curriculum for the emerging specialty of clinical informatics. She is the Program Director and co-founder of the Stanford Clinical Informatics Fellowship, the first ACGME-accredited fellowships in clinical informatics, and she chairs the national Community of Clinical Informatics Program Directors.