UI Health Care officials have named Douglas Van Daele as the hospital’s new chief medical information officer.

The assistant professor of otolaryngology will dedicate half of his time to the position and the remainder to patient care and research.

Van Daele earned a B.S. in biomedical engineering in 1991 and an M.D. at the Carver College of Medicine in 1996. He became a faculty member in the medical school in July 2003.

His clinical specialty as the physician director of the Otolaryngology Clinic in the UI Hospitals and Clinics is head and neck surgery.

— by Mitchell Schmidt