Dr. Jawad Al-Khafaji is the Deputy Associate Chief of Staff for Health Informatics at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. Educated at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar where he received his MD degree, and holding an MSHA from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Dr. Al-Khafaji combines clinical expertise with a passion for healthcare management and informatics. His areas of expertise include patient safety and quality improvement, healthcare data analytics and risk stratification, clinical workflows optimization, and digital health innovations.His career is marked by progressive clinical and leadership roles. At VCU Health, he directed the Academic Nocturnist Program and the Inpatient Housestaff Units, and served as Associate Program Director for Internal Medicine Residency. He currently directs the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Path of Excellence at the University of Michigan Medical School, leads multiple health informatics and quality improvement projects, and serves as a Provider Champion Lead for the Electronic Health Record Modernization at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Dr. Al-Khafaji's clinical practice spans internal medicine and hospital medicine, informed by his commitment to advancing patient care through health informatics and data analytics. His work is dedicated to harnessing digital health innovations for enhancing patient safety, improving quality, and optimizing clinical workflows.
His clinical expertise encompasses Lymphofollicular Hyperplasia and Familial Mediterranean Fever.
He is actively involved in clinical research, co-authoring 13 peer reviewed articles.