Previously, he was a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Institute for Health Informatics at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Khairat was the co-Principal Investigator of the Great Plains Telehealth Resource and Assistance Center, a federal grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. Dr. Khairat is Chair of the Education Working Group at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), and member of the Working Group Steering Committee. Dr. Khairat earned his PhD in Health Informatics at the Informatics Institute at the University of Missouri with a focus on ICU clinical communication. During his Informatics training, Dr. Khairat worked as a Research Fellow at the Division of Clinical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. Among his research interests are mobile technologies in disease management and Usability in EHR systems.