Dr. Arthur Davidson, director of public health informatics at Denver Health, is principal investigator of Colorado’s AHRQ-funded State and Regional Demonstration Project. Intimately involved with efforts to develop a regional health information organization in Colorado (CORHIO), he has advocated for local/state health department collaboration on informatics initiatives and Internet-enabled health data access. Since Colorado began its CORHIO quest in 2004, Art has provided technical and clinical leadership.

Art also directs the Denver Center for Public Health Preparedness, one of the original Advance Practice Centers funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention between 1999 and 2004. He is a member of the Population Health and Clinical Care Connection workgroup of the American Health Information Community and co-chaired the Minimum Data Set Steering Committee. Art serves on the National Association of County and City Health Officials Informatics Workgroup and International Society of Disease Surveillance Advisory Board.

He is a family physician, health services researcher and associate professor in the Departments of Preventive Medicine/Biometrics and Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver.

Art has a master’s of science in public health from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and received his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine.