Directory

This Directory includes Faculty, Staff, Students, and Alumni selectable by category, search or alphabetical by last name. Over 110 students have graduated from the Department of Biomedical Informatics (25+ PhD, 50+ MS, 25+ Certificate). The diversity of careers available to DBMI alumnus is evident in their biographies. Many of our graduates are teaching and performing research in academic institutions, such as Vanderbilt University, Arizona State University, and New York University while others have entered private industry with companies such as Cerner Corporation and Boston Scientific; some have positions in government agencies, such as the NIH and AHRQ, while others are at major medical centers, serving in roles such as Chief Medical Information Officer. We maintain a database of the career paths of our graduates. If you are an alumnus, please contact us if you would like to submit or update information!

Gary Fischer

Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics
Work Phone: 412-692-4888 Website: Department of Medicine Faculty Page
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Biography

Program Director, UPMC Clinical Informatics Fellowship
Associate Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine
Medical Director, Clinical Decision Support and Population Health Tools, Ambulatory eRecord (UPMC)
Board Certified, Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics

Dr. Fischer has worked as a clinical informatician at UPMC since 2003 and has helped develop the patient portal (MyUPMC), and the ambulatory eRecord, including clinical decision support tools, documentation workflows, reports, dashboards, and population health workflows.

He has published research related to patient-facing decision-support tools, life-style management programs integrated into clinical workflows and the EMR, and the effectiveness of clinical decision support tools, both clinician facing and patient facing.