Louis Capponi, MD, FACP
Chief Medical Officer, Spora Health
Lou Capponi is a General Internist and Chief Medical Officer at Spora Health. He has a long career in Clinical and IT leadership positions in large and diverse provider organizations across the U.S. From 2004 to 2014 he held roles of systemwide CMIO and Assistant Vice President for Clinical Information Systems for New York City’s municipal hospital system. There he implemented population-health programs including patient registries, designed clinical decision support applications, created data warehouses for monitoring quality and outcomes, and executed a System-Wide acquisition to replace legacy EMRs. At the Cleveland Clinic, Lou continued to focus on HIT as a value-driver through innovative care models, while also promoting increased usability and safety. At SCL Health, a system with eight hospitals in Colorado and Montana, he built a 70-person informatics team focused on system usability, clinical decision support, and advanced prediction capability.
Dr. Capponi received his undergraduate and medical education at New York University. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics, a fellow in the American College of Physicians, and has held faculty positions at NYU School of Medicine and the Cleveland Clinic Learner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.
