Description of Research Expertise

Dr. Adusumalli is currently Vice President and Chief Health Information Officer at the University of Pennsylvania Health System and an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine as well an Adjunct Professor of Healthcare Management at The Wharton School.

Dr. Adusumalli joined the Penn faculty within the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine in 2018 as an outpatient, inpatient, and imaging cardiologist focused on health informatics initiatives. His work has included implementing ambulatory telemedical care during the COVID-19 pandemic, managing custom applications like Switchboard and Carelign, developing a research portfolio at the intersection of behavioral science and clinical decision support, and mentoring trainees as well as directing courses on learning health systems, applied health informatics, and digital transformation.

As a part of this work, Dr. Adusumalli has served in multiple leadership positions across Penn, including Assistant CMIO for Connected Health, Deputy Director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, Director of the Penn Medicine-LDI Research Laboratory, and founding Director of the Penn Center for Cardiovascular Informatics. From 2022-2025, Dr. Adusumalli served as Senior Medical Director for Health Informatics at CVS Health, where he was responsible for enterprise projects such as Epic implementation and governance, clinical AI strategy development, national virtual care implementation, and clinical aspects of CVS’s digital consumer/patient experience.

Dr. Adusumalli is particularly interested in methods of using technology to evaluate and accelerate the adoption of evidence-based healthcare in a manner that is safe for patients and easy for clinicians. He has worked on several projects including developing an opt-out default pathway for cardiac rehabilitation referral, deploying active choice interventions directed at statin prescription within the electronic health record, designing and evaluating methods for clinicians to easily refer advanced heart failure patients for home care programs, and designing new evidence-based electronic reporting systems for cardiovascular procedures.

Dr. Adusumalli received his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia where he graduated AOA in 2011. He completed his internal medicine training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2014 where he led the program’s quality and safety efforts. He then completed his cardiovascular disease fellowship training at the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 during which time he served as chief fellow. Simultaneously, he earned a Master of Science degree in Health Policy Research from the University of Pennsylvania with a focus in healthcare improvement, patient safety, and clinical informatics. In 2021, he earned a Master of Biomedical Informatics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, clinical informatics, and echocardiography.