Cynthia L. Kuelbs, M.D., is the Chief Medical Information Officer at Rady Children’s Hospital and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She received her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Minnesota and completed her Pediatric residency at UCSD. Board certified in Pediatrics, Child Abuse Pediatrics and Clinical Informatics, she is interested in using the electronic medical record (EMR) and technology to better understand what factors influence health and healthcare. As a child abuse pediatrician and former Medical Director at the Chadwick Center for Children and Families, she is interested in how mental health trauma affects health and the way in which patients interact with health care and in understanding the impact that social determinants of health, particularly chronic stress and exposure to violence and abuse, have on physical and mental health. She is a proponent of understanding how adverse childhood experiences impact health, as well as ensuring that health care providers screening for these events and working with patients who have experienced them are able to interact with patients in a trauma informed way.