College of Pharmacy Dean's Seminar - Michael Fischer
This talk is titled “If it was easy, we’d have done it already: System-level approaches to improving hypertension management.”
About
Michael Fischer, MD, MS is a general internist, epidemiologist, and health services researcher. He is Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and a Professor of Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. Within BMC’s Research Enterprise he serves as the Director of Clinical and Translational Research, overseeing the activity of BMC’s Data and Methods Core. He practices primary care internal medicine at BMC’s safety-net clinic and supervises residents in both the outpatient and inpatient settings. He has extensive experience in designing and evaluating interventions to improve medication use and other elements of clinical care. His research has assessed Medicaid policy, prescription drug reimbursement, electronic prescribing, medication adherence, and academic detailing.
This event is hosted by Dr. Macarius Donneyong.