Subha Airan-Javia, MD earned a BS in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000 and her medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2004. She then completed Internal Medicine residency training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 2007, and joined faculty at the Perelman School of Medicine, where she now practices inpatient medicine as a hospitalist attending and Associate Professor in Clinical Medicine. Initially working as a physician liaison to the Information Systems Department, her decade of work as a bridge between practicing clinicians and technology development earned her position as Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer for the University of Pennsylvania Health System. In that role, Dr. Airan-Javia led a team to create and implement a mobile handoff and workflow tool for the Penn Health system which has been transformative to clinical care. In 2018, Dr Airan-Javia left her Associate CMIO role to co-found TrekIT Health, to commercialize this software and bring it’s unique design and workflow improvements to other healthcare systems.
Dr. Airan-Javia’s areas of academic work include care coordination, workflow redesign, and Health IT education for undergraduate and graduate medical trainees. Dr. Airan-Javia served as the Director of Handoff and IT education for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of Pennsylvania and developed curricula to teach trainees how to perform safe and effective handoffs, to learn to use the EHR and to use technology to enhance patient interactions.