Dr. Ani Chintalapani is a dual-class physician and informaticist at OHSU, where he serves as a hospitalist and as the Associate Chief Health Information Officer for Acute Care. In simpler terms, he’s the guy who rounds by day, configures Electronic Health Record, or EHR, alerts by night — and occasionally mutters “this could’ve been a build ticket” under his breath. 

Ani’s career began in the Eastern Kingdoms (also known as New Jersey), where he trained at Saint Michael’s Medical Center after graduating from St. George’s. He made the legendary cross-country journey to Portland to level up through OHSU’s Clinical Informatics Fellowship, and has since become a critical member of multiple guilds — including the Epic Clinical Steering Committee, Unified Communications team, and Sepsis Management Squad. 

He’s helped lead multi-institutional quests such as Epic Secure Chat implementation, IV fluid conservation (hydration is important, folks), and Age-Friendly Hospital initiatives. He’s also co-authored loot-worthy research on how EHR alerts can drive COVID-19 vaccination — and maybe just save the realm one Best Practice Advisory at a time. 

While his clinical role is focused on internal medicine for hospitalized adults, Ani sees his informatics work as the ultimate co-op game: empowering frontline providers with the tools, workflows and user interface tweaks they need to survive the boss battle known as modern healthcare. 

Outside of the hospital, you can find Ani grinding reps in the gym, tackling side quests with his daughter, or replaying God of War for the fifth time because Kratos gets it.