# Atul Butte

Atul J. Butte is researcher in biomedical informatics and biotechnology entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Since April 2015, Butte is heading the Institute for Computational Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco and serving as the executive director of clinical informatics for University of California's Health Sciences and Services. Previously, he was Chief of the Division of Systems Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital where he held the position of an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and (by courtesy) Computer Science and Immunology & Rheumatology.As a high school student, Butte was accepted into Brown University, where he studied computer science and was part of the Program in Liberal Medical Education, gaining him early acceptance into Brown's Alpert Medical School, from which he obtained his MD in 1995.