Interests:

Clinical Informatics, clinical decision support, population health, use of AI in clinical care and medical education, and science-based medicine.

Background:

Dr. Villavicencio received his BA and MD from Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. He completed a Pediatric residency at Children’s Memorial Hospital, now Lurie Children’s Hospital. After finishing, he worked as a general pediatrician as a US Naval officer at Cherry Point Naval Hospital in North Carolina where he oversaw implementation of early electronic health records. He left the Navy and has worked as a pediatric hospitalist at Seattle Children’s and affiliated partner regional hospitals since 2005. He later received a Masters degree in Clinical Informatics from Northwestern University and is board certified in Pediatrics, Pediatric Hospital Medicine, and Clinical Informatics.

Representative publications:

Michelle Stoffel, Michael G. Leu, Dwight Barry, Jennifer Hrachovec, Nabiha H. Saifee, Darren S. Migita, Nate Deam, Carlos E. Villavicencio, M. Pauline O’Hare, Amy Pagliarulo, Meghan Delaney. Optimizing electronic blood ordering and supporting administration workflows to improve blood utilization in the pediatric hospital setting. Transfusion. 2023; 63(12): 2328–2340. https://doi.org/10.1111/trf.17587