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Dr. McSwain is a Professor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and currently the Chief Medical Information Officer for UNC Health Care System, leading the integration of health IT and digital tools into clinical practice for their rapidly growing health system. He is a North Carolina native who completed medical school, an MPH in Health Policy and Administration, and his residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at UNC before completing his pediatric critical care medicine fellowship at Duke. Dr. McSwain has been an active and productive clinician, educator, administrator, and NIH-funded researcher in his 12 years at MUSC. He is a pioneer and national leader in telehealth and virtual care, having developed multiple collaborative local, state, and national telehealth initiatives, most notably the SPROUT (Supporting Pediatric Research in Outcomes and Utilization of Telehealth) National Research Collaborative -- for which he received a 5-year, $3.6 million multicenter Collaborative Innovation Award from the NIH in 2019. 

He began his role as CMIO at MUSC in 2018 has led numerous successful initiatives since that time. He spearheaded MUSC's inaugural participation in the KLAS Arch Collaborative national satisfaction and benchmarking survey, led the implementation of compliance measures for immediate results release across the enterprise, created MUSC's first Epic Clinician Builder Program, and led a comprehensive restructuring and revamp of MUSC's enterprise-wide approach to Epic order set creation, design, and maintenance. He served as the Executive Sponsor for go-live of Epic at four newly acquired regional hospitals and 40 ambulatory clinics in 2019 and designed and implemented new mobile rounding technology for MUSC's new Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital which opened in 2020.  

As a clinical informatics consultant specialized in the intersection of healthcare and information technology.

Dr. McSwain is a Professor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and currently the Chief Medical Information Officer for UNC Health Care System, leading the integration of health IT and digital tools into clinical practice for their rapidly growing health system. He is a North Carolina native who completed medical school, an MPH in Health Policy and Administration, and his residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at UNC before completing his pediatric critical care medicine fellowship at Duke. Dr. McSwain has been an active and productive clinician, educator, administrator, and NIH-funded researcher in his 12 years at MUSC. He is a pioneer and national leader in telehealth and virtual care, having developed multiple collaborative local, state, and national telehealth initiatives, most notably the SPROUT (Supporting Pediatric Research in Outcomes and Utilization of Telehealth) National Research Collaborative -- for which he received a 5-year, $3.6 million multicenter Collaborative Innovation Award from the NIH in 2019. 

He began his role as CMIO at MUSC in 2018 has led numerous successful initiatives since that time. He spearheaded MUSC's inaugural participation in the KLAS Arch Collaborative national satisfaction and benchmarking survey, led the implementation of compliance measures for immediate results release across the enterprise, created MUSC's first Epic Clinician Builder Program, and led a comprehensive restructuring and revamp of MUSC's enterprise-wide approach to Epic order set creation, design, and maintenance. He served as the Executive Sponsor for go-live of Epic at four newly acquired regional hospitals and 40 ambulatory clinics in 2019 and designed and implemented new mobile rounding technology for MUSC's new Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital which opened in 2020.  

As a clinical informatics consultant specialized in the intersection of healthcare and information technology.