Richard Paula

Richard Paula, MD, CPE serves as the Corporate Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Shriners Hospitals for Children since January 2014, bringing extensive expertise in medical informatics and quality improvement. Previous roles include Chief Medical Advisor at Edgility and Associate Professor at the University of South Florida College of Medicine, contributing to the Division of Emergency Medicine. Richard held positions as Chief Medical Informatics Officer and Emergency Medicine Physician at Tampa General Hospital, and worked as a Physician Consultant for various organizations, focusing on performance improvement and quality concerns. Richard completed an MD at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a BA in English Literature from Rutgers University.