Brett is the first ever Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) at Parkland Health & Hospital System and helped steward them from being a paper-based hospital to being a fully electronic institution within 3 years.  Graduating from UT Southwestern Medical School, and subsequently Internal Medicine Residency, he joined the General Internal Medicine Department in 1997, ultimately becoming a full professor. He is dual board certified in both Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics.  In his role as CMIO, he has been deeply involved in quality and safety projects—helping engineer informatics solutions to remediate or mitigate.  He has collaborated with researchers on a variety of initiatives, facilitating informatics solutions, including the Population-based Research Optimizing Screening through Personalized Regimens (PROSPR) program, CPRIT grant awards, and the NIH Collaboratory on “Improving CKD with PIECES. and studied the best practices for rounding behaviors in academic programs in the electronic era.  In April of 2016 he was humbled to be voted as the Physician Academy Council Physician of the Year, an award given annually to a physician member of Epic community, selected by his/her physician informatics peers across the nation, in recognition of outstanding contributions to the community.  He has given nearly 30 presentations at the Epic National User Group meetings over the years on a variety of clinical informatics topics and is honored to have had 4 selected as “classics”.  His current interests and focus include predictive analytics, improving alert fatigue and addressing physician burnout, improving physician EHR training and proficiency, and developing innovative solutions for safety net methodology for capturing potential patient care omissions.