Stephen Blackwelder is Chief Analytics Officer at Duke University Health System where he co-leads Duke Health’s Analytics Center of Excellence. The Center is the shared services information and analytics hub for the health operations and clinical data Duke relies upon daily in its care delivery, health data science, research and education missions. As the executive responsible for data warehousing, business intelligence, clinical information delivery and healthcare-related financial reporting, he leads teams supporting a flexible and responsive data infrastructure ranging from traditional BI to data science use cases. The Analytics Center of Excellence uses an innovative agile service delivery model to simultaneously advance project and infrastructure work in close collaboration with stakeholders and with the support of an extensive and engaged governance structure. Dr. Blackwelder previously designed and deployed one of the industry’s first secure cloud-based data warehouses to be comprised from the patient’s “neighborhood care community” alongside claims and clinical information, lab results and pharmacy scripts.