Aziz Boxwala
President at George Washington University
California, United States
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Top SchoolAziz Boxwala is a physician-turned-healthcare informatics entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building clinical decision support products and services that bridge academia and industry. As founder and president of Elimu Informatics (and prior CEO of Meliorix and mWorks Health), he focuses on delivering CDS that combines rigorous knowledge representation, robust data foundations, and seamless clinical workflows to drive ACO and population health goals. His career includes faculty and research roles at MIT, Harvard, and UC San Diego, where he advanced standards-based implementations (CQL, SMART on FHIR, HL7, CDS Hooks, Health eDecisions) and published work on guideline automation. Comfortable as provider, vendor, and academic, he’s equally fluent in clinical vocabularies and product strategy—an uncommon blend that speeds real-world uptake of research innovations. Based in California, he advises startups and teaches clinical research and leadership, bringing a practical, standards-first approach to improving patient safety and point-of-care decisioning.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering/Medical Informatics, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering/Medical Informatics at University of North CarolinaMBBS, Medicine, MBBS, Medicine at University of Mumbai
Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
visual-studio-code6
smart-on-fhir6
kogito6
cds5
interoperability5
nlm4
javascript3
react3
specification3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
elimuinformatics/a2d2
Jan 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:130 reviews, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 1 month
cqframework/healthedecisions
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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