45th Annual Shields Research Day

Sachin Kheterpal, MD, MBA, is the University of Michigan Medical School’s associate dean for Research Information Technology and the Kevin K. Tremper Research Professor in Anesthesiology. He is responsible for establishing the vision and strategy to effectively use information technology (IT) to advance the research mission. Working closely with Health Information Technology and Services, the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR), departmental leadership, and other research and informatics teams across the medical school, he sets Research IT priorities to help ensure its competitive positioning for the future. To that end, he coordinates centralized Research IT efforts with departmental points of distributed innovation and champions the use of IT to differentiate Michigan Medicine in securing extramural funding, establishing industry partnerships, and attracting and retaining top faculty, staff, and students. Additionally, he serves as a liaison to University of Michigan's campus Research IT leadership to maximize the research impact of an integrated computing environment.

Sachin Kheterpal received his undergraduate degree, his medical degree, and his master's in business administration from the University of Michigan, where he also completed an anesthesiology residency and a transplant fellowship. His career has been focused on the novel use of IT, electronic health records (EHR), and mobile health for patient care, quality improvement, and research. He is recognized as a national leader in perioperative large dataset clinical research and has published numerous articles, editorials, and book chapters regarding intraoperative management and long-term postoperative outcomes.

Using innovative techniques to integrate administrative, EHR, and registry data across institutions, he established the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group (MPOG) in 2008 and serves as its principal investigator. The group has accumulated more than 16 million patient records with risk-adjusted outcomes and detailed clinical intervention data spanning more than 60 health systems across the United States and Europe for outcomes research and quality improvement. Currently, he is the principal investigator of a $30 million PCORI-funded pragmatic large comparative effectiveness trial, THRIVE (Trajectories of Recovery after Intravenous Propofol vs inhaled VolatilE anesthesia), which will enroll 12,500 patients in a prospective, randomized controlled trial across 20 MPOG clinical sites.

Dr. Kheterpal is a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Council of Councils, and a member of the NIH Novel and Exceptional Technology and Research Advisory Committee (NExTRAC). In 2022, Dr. Kheterpal was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in recognition of his vision for and international leadership in anesthesiology informatics and clinical research.

Dr. Kheterpal will present on "Lessons Learned When Using Data to Collaborate and Improve Care."