Umberto Tachinardi is an accomplished informatics professional and academic leader in digital health data and systems. They have extensive international experience, having served as CIO for the Secretaria de Estado da Saude de São Paulo and directed the EHR system at InCor - Instituto do Coração. Currently, they are the Chair of the Department of Biostatistics, Health Informatics, and Data Sciences at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. A strong advocate for the role of data in improving healthcare, they have chaired significant conferences and held leadership positions across notable institutions, contributing to the fields of translational medicine and learning health systems.