Russell Leftwich, MD

Russell Leftwich, MD, FAMIA, serves as a senior clinical advisor for interoperability at InterSystems, a global data technology company. His role is to advise InterSystems around healthcare data standards in their products and to support healthcare product strategy globally. Dr. Leftwich is a frequent presenter in the U.S. and internationally around the FHIR data standard. He is on the board of the HL7 FHIR Foundation and has previously served as director and treasurer of the HL7 International board. He co-chairs HL7 Learning Health Systems WG and Clinical Interoperability Council and has been involved in the creation of the FHIR standard since its beginning. He is active in the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and is a Fellow of AMIA.