Savel - Leadership

Tom Savel, MD

Director, Informatics Innovation Unit

Division of Public Health Information Dissemination

Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services

Office of Public Health Scientific Services

Thomas G. Savel, MD, is the Director of the Informatics Innovation Unit in the Division of Public Health Information Dissemination. In this role, he collaborates with CDC staff and the broader public health community to develop, test, and evaluate innovative tools and technologies with the potential to improve public health practice.

Before joining CSELS, Dr. Savel held many different technology-related positions at CDC, included the Acting Associate Director for Science at the National Center for Public Health Informatics.

Dr. Savel received his medical degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and his undergraduate degree in psychology from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He received training in General Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center- Houston, and Family Medicine at the St. Joseph Hospital in Houston, Texas.  He is a graduate of CDC’s Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program.

Dr. Savel is an adjunct professor in the Applied Public Health Office at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and, on his own time, maintains his clinical skills in addiction medicine, treating patients with opioid addiction. He is a member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM).