As the inaugural Chief Information Officer for Michigan Medicine, Dr. Rosenberg guides the strategic planning and operations of information technology and services across University of Michigan Health and the University of Michigan Medical School.
Previously, he was the first Chief Medical Information Officer and the Executive Director of Information and Data Management for U-M Health beginning in 2010. From 2017 to 2018, Dr. Rosenberg also served as the interim Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer for The University of Michigan.
Previous clinical leadership included Director of Critical Care in the Department of Anesthesiology, Director of Critical Care Research, and Medical Director of the cardiac surgical ICU. Dr. Rosenberg is the current President of the State of Michigan Epic Users Group (eMUG) and a member of the board for the Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN).
Dr. Rosenberg attended U-M as an undergraduate and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School. He completed a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at the George Washington Hospital and an Anesthesiology Residency at U-M. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Research Fellow at U-M and an early diplomat with board certification in Clinical Informatics.
What is your proudest moment working at Michigan Medicine?
Going back into practicing critical care in the Covid Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for 3 months during the peak of the pandemic. In a sense, it was what I had trained in for three residences, and when I directed the critical care division and CVC ICU for so many years before moving into informatics and then IT. Prior to that I would have said my proudest moment was in 2018 when I was asked to and accepted the University of Michigan CIO position for a year, while continuing to do my work as the Michigan Medicine CIO. The opportunity to manage two distinctly different, but still related IT organizations at the same time, and help make differences in how each work individually as well as together was unique in the country.
What advice would you give others who wish to serve in a similar leadership role?
First understand the goals, operations and culture of the various mission areas you would be supporting in your role. In many ways, it’s less about who you are and what you know than how you bring collaborative and decisive leadership to specific tasks based on the first principles and not one's own inherent factual knowledge. The latter helps you make judgements and guides others in their work.
What is your favorite way to unwind at the end of a busy day or relax on the weekend?
I have a great and close family. Anything that involves being with them is my priority outside work. And trying to keep squirrels out of our bird feeder, but that has not led to relaxation yet.
