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Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)
As a practicing general internist and board-certified clinical informaticist with training and experience in health services research, computer engineering and product management, and professional responsibilities that include clinical practice, medical education, clinical decision support, and evaluation of clinical workflows, I am uniquely positioned to contribute to this study. I focus on the practice of medicine, clinical informatics to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical medicine, and the intersection of clinical informatics and operational workflow in medical practice. I collaborate with APP leadership on the design of workflows, informatics, documentation and billing tools in support of physician-APP collaboration. I have previously studied the role of information technology and public policy in opioid prescribing, the use of information technology integrated into the EMR and patient portal on maintenance of weight loss, and the comparative effectiveness of a commercial artificial intelligence system with physician judgment on predicting clinical deterioration for hospitalized general internal medicine patients. I work with the clinical informatics team at UPMC to maintain and improve the clinical EMR, I work with the “learning while doing” team at UPMC to implement pragmatic clinical trials at the point of care, and I work with the PaTH clinical research network to support the translation of multicenter clinical information into research.