Dean F. Sittig graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in science and M.S. in biomedical engineering. He completed his Ph.D. studies in medical informatics at the University of Utah. He is currently a professor emeritus at the University of Texas Health Science Center's McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics (MSBMI). He also serves as the Executive Director of the Clinical Informatics Research Collaborative, a group of academic-applied clinical informatics researchers committed to improving our understanding of issues involved in the design, development, implementation, use and, evaluation of all aspects of health information technology with a particular emphasis on EHRs. His research interests include the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of all aspects of clinical information systems (CIS), specifically measuring the impact and safety of CIS on a large scale and improving understanding of both the factors that lead to the success of CIS, as well as the unintended consequences associated with computer-based clinical decision support and provider order entry systems.