Donald Rucker
Donald Rucker is an American medical informatician and emergency physician. In April 2017, he was appointed National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Currently he serves as the Chief Strategy Officer at health tech startup .
Career
Rucker has practiced emergency medicine in California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. He was Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's first full-time attending in the emergency department. His teaching background includes 13 years as assistant professor of emergency medicine at University of Pennsylvania Health System and four years, immediately before his appointment to ONC, as professor of emergency medicine and biomedical informatics at Ohio State University.For 13 years, Rucker was chief medical officer at Siemens Healthcare. He was also for worksite clinic provider Premise Health.