Cheng-Kai Kao MD
Hospital Medicine/Hospitalist, Medical Information Sciences
Chief Medical Information Officer & Medical Director of International Programs, University of Chicago Medicine
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5841 S. MARYLAND AVENUEM/C 5000Chicago, IL 60637
Phone+1 773-834-8129
Fax+1 773-795-7398
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Education & Training
Albert Einstein Healthcare NetworkResidency, Internal Medicine, 2008 - 2011
National Taiwan University College of MedicineClass of 2006
Certifications & Licensure
IN State Medical License 2024 - 2027
IL State Medical License Active through 2026
PA State Medical License 2008 - 2011
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Preventive Medicine Clinical Informatics
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- ACP Top Hospitalist American College of Physician Hospitalist, 2017
Clinical Trials
- Acute Medically Ill VTE Prevention With Extended Duration Betrixaban Study (The APEX Study) Start of enrollment: 2012 Mar 01
- A Study of Rivaroxaban (JNJ-39039039) on the Venous Thromboembolic Risk in Post-Hospital Discharge Patients Start of enrollment: 2014 Jan 07
- Comparison of Oral Anticoagulants for Extended VEnous Thromboembolism Start of enrollment: 2018 Aug 01
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Improving Provider Documentation Using a Pediatric Automated Documentation Assistance Tool.Kevin D Smith, Riley Boland, Matthew Cerasale, Cheng-Kai Kao
Applied Clinical Informatics. 2025-10-01 - 5 citationsImplementation of a Real-Time Documentation Assistance Tool: Automated Diagnosis (AutoDx).Matthew T Cerasale, Ali Mansour, Ethan Molitch-Hou, Sean Bernstein, Tokhanh Nguyen
Applied Clinical Informatics. 2024-05-01 - 5 citationsUse of clinical pathways integrated into the electronic health record to address the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.Allison H Bartlett, Sonya Makhni, Samantha Ruokis, Mary Kate Selling, Lauren Hall
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2023-02-01
Authored Content
- Hospitalists Can Lead Health Information Technology Field6/15/2015
Press Mentions
Hospital-at-Home Staffing Models EvolveJune 27th, 2025- Hospital-at-Home 2.0: Where Health Systems Are Headed NextJune 18th, 2025
- How Illinois Tech Helped Map Out UChicago's Hospital at Home InitiativeOctober 17th, 2024
Committees
- Chair, Informatics Committee, Section of Hospital Medicine
- Chair, IT Committee, Society of Hospital Medicine
Professional Memberships
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Other Languages
- Chinese (Mandarin)
External Links
- LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ckkao
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