Christopher James Tignanelli MD MBA, MS, FACS, FAMIA

Summary

• Christopher J. Tignanelli, MD, MS, MBA is a tenured Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he also serves as Associate Dean for Data Science. He is triple board-certified in General Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, and Clinical Informatics, and provides care for trauma, emergency general surgery, surgical critical care, and ECMO patients.
  
  Dr. Tignanelli is a nationally recognized clinician-scientist whose work focuses on clinical informatics, artificial intelligence, machine learning–enabled decision support, and learning health systems to improve outcomes and reduce unwarranted variation in care. He has authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications and has received more than $30 million in direct research funding from NIH, AHRQ, and other federal and foundation sources. His research emphasizes the development, implementation, and real-world scaling of interoperable, evidence-based digital health tools across complex health systems.
  
  In addition to his academic roles, Dr. Tignanelli is actively involved with MedTech 3.0, contributing clinical and informatics expertise to advance medical technology innovation, data-driven healthcare transformation, and collaboration between health systems, startups, and industry.
  
  He also serves as Chief Medical Officer of Biometrica Health, a health technology company focused on device-agnostic remote patient monitoring and real-time biometric analytics. In this role, he provides clinical leadership to ensure Biometrica’s platforms deliver actionable insights, integrate seamlessly into clinical workflows, and support proactive, connected care across diverse patient populations.