Dr. Subha Airan-Javia completed her BS in Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000 and earned her medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2004. Following her Internal Medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, she joined the faculty at the Perelman School of Medicine and has been practicing as an inpatient hospital medicine attending there since 2007. Double board certified in Internal Medicine and clinical informatics, Dr. Airan-Javia’s expertise lies in clinical workflow and process design with a focus on user-centered technology to improve safety, efficiency, and outcomes. Her research focuses on documentation and communication practices in medicine.
Initially serving as a physician liaison to the Information Systems Department, Dr. Airan-Javia later became an Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer for the Penn Medicine Health System, focusing on inpatient technology design, optimization and implementation. In that role, Dr. Airan-Javia and her team created CareAlign, a clinical care orchestration platform to improve team communication, collaboration and most importantly, patient care.
In 2018, Dr. Airan-Javia co-founded and led CareAlign, a pioneering venture to disseminate the care orchestration technology she and her team developed at Penn Medicine to other health systems. Her professional interests center on improving healthcare delivery processes and workflows, often through innovative technology applications, focusing on handoffs, usability, and user-centered design.
To honor her late sister's memory, Dr. Airan-Javia has recently founded CatherineGives.org. This new non-profit aims to forge city-wide digital collaboratives in partnership with community-based organizations. The initiative focuses on creating seamless transitions and enhanced coordination among groups treating complex diseases in marginalized populations. Through CatherineGives.org, Dr. Airan-Javia continues to channel her expertise into transforming healthcare landscapes for the most vulnerable. Concurrently, she maintains her clinical practice part-time at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and continues research into clinical documentation practices.
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