In a press release published on its website, the University of California Irvine announced on Sep. 11 the promotion of Tom Andriola, currently vice president and chief information officer for the University of California System, to the title of vice chancellor of information technology and data at the University of California, Irvine, effective Oct. 1.
Describing Andriola as “an experienced business and technology leader in the education and healthcare sectors, the University of California Irvine noted that he “takes on a newly created position within the UCI leadership structure and will oversee the entirety of the university’s IT function, including at UCI Health. He’ll work closely with campus and healthcare leaders to explore opportunities for technology and data to drive innovation and enhance the missions of teaching, research, patient care and public service.”
“I am delighted that Tom Andriola is joining our team as our inaugural vice chancellor of information technology and data,” said Chancellor Howard Gillman in a statement contained in the press release. “He brings to this key role a national reputation for innovation in information systems and a distinguished record of IT leadership in both education and business.”
Andriola comes to UCI from the UC Office of the President, where he serves as the vice president & chief information officer for the UC system and the chief information officer for UC Health. In his six years in this role, he has worked across the campuses and medical centers to expand the use of technology strategically and realize operational synergies.
Among his accomplishments, the press release noted, Andriola created an organizational and technology platform to support the collaboration of 8,000 IT professionals across the UC’s campuses and medical centers, launched the IT Leadership Academy to develop the future technology leaders, and developed UC Health’s big data strategy, which led to the creation of the UC-wide clinical data warehouse with 16 million patients represented for the purposes of improving patient care and supporting research.
“Technology’s role is becoming more and more strategic to the mission of the university,” Andriola said. “Whether we are talking about creating an outstanding experience for our students through the technology they have in their hand, supporting researchers needing to aggregate and compute petabytes of data for their research, fusing digital health records to advance breakthroughs, capturing human genomic profile or doing data science – technology is playing a key enabling role. I feel honored to join the UCI team to explore and realize this brilliant future.”
UCI created the vice chancellor position to lead strategic advancement and integration of information technology and data at UCI for all research, education, patient care, and administrative and business operations. The role will partner broadly across the campus, research and health system to enhance capabilities and support the strategic plan developed in 2016. Andriola holds a bachelor’s degree from George Washington University and a master’s degree from the University of South Florida, and he has completed the Stanford Executive MBA program.
