Summary
Srikar Chamala is an informatics leader and Associate Program Director of the ACGME Clinical Informatics Fellowship at CHLA with 11 years of experience translating genomic science into clinical practice. He directs the Center for Pathology Informatics & Data Science and holds an associate professorship at USC, where he designs NGS clinical assays, scalable bioinformatics pipelines, and EHR integration strategies for precision oncology. His work—published in Science, Nature, and Genome Biology—bridges academic research and operational clinical systems, advancing both diagnostics and data workflows. Known for building end-to-end solutions from assay development to health IT integration, he also applies expertise in T1D and cancer genomics to inform translational projects. Based in Los Angeles, he combines deep academic training (PhD in Genomics and Bioinformatics) with hands-on engineering of production bioinformatics tools and data management.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Bioinformatics at Brigham Young University
Master of Science (M.S.) Bioinformatics, Master of Science (M.S.) Bioinformatics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Genomics and Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Genomics and Bioinformatics at University of Florida