Catinella named CMIO of Arizona provider

Anthony P. Catinella, MD, has been promoted to CMIO at University Physicians Healthcare (UPH), based in Tucson, Ariz. In this position, he will head up the use and development of IT systems to store and access medical information in the clinical environment in all UPH hospitals and clinics.

Catinella has served as the medical director of the family medicine clinic at UPH's Hospital Outpatient Clinics since 2008. He is also clinical associate professor in the department of family and community medicine at the University of Arizona (UA) College of Medicine. He earned his medical degree at the University of Arizona in 1981 and a Master's of public health from the University of South Florida in 1995.

With more than 400 physicians and 2,000 staff, UPH is a nonprofit corporation created in 1985 as the medical practice of the physicians of the UA College of Medicine. 
 

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