Gary Fischer completed a residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Fellowship in Medical Ethics at the University of Pittsburgh. He is Professor of Medicine, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, and is a Medical Director for the Ambulatory eRecord and Program Director for the UPMC/Pitt Clinical Informatics Fellowship. Dr. Fischer teaches medical ethics and doctor-patient communication to medical students, residents, and clinical fellows, as well as practicing health care professionals. He conducts research in several areas related to quality improvement: the use of health information technology (HIT) and clinical decision support to improve quality of care; the use of patient-facing HIT tools to improve patient outcomes, including with weight loss, diabetes care, hypertension, and prevention; electronic communication between patients and health care providers; and ambulatory quality improvement.
