David Kaelber, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAP, FACP, FACMI, FAMIA*

Undergraduate – Duke University (Biomedical and Electrical Engineering)

Medical School – Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)

Graduate School – MS/PhD in Biomedical Engineering (CWRU) & MPH (Harvard University)

Residency – Internal Medicine and Pediatrics (CWRU – MetroHealth)

Fellowship – Clinical Informatics (Partners Healthcare/Harvard University)

Faculty Appointment – Professor of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Population and Quantitative Health Sciences

Informatics Role – Chief Health Informatics Officer and Vice-President of Health Informatics and Patient Engagement Technologies

Role in Fellowship Program – Program Director

Brief Description – Dr. Kaelber has published over 400 abstracts and manuscripts and has been involved in scores of externally funded informatics related projects.  His primary area of informatics research includes electronic health records to study and improve health, personal health records, health information exchange, telehealth, and using aggregated de-identified electronic health record platforms (Epic Cosmos and TriNetX), as well as clinical informatics education.  More information about Dr. Kaelber can be found at: https://sites.google.com/a/case.edu/davidkaelber/home.

Interesting Projects:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Contracted with the CDC to use Epic Cosmos to answer respiratory disease questions to affect US healthcare policy.

MIRTE (www.mitre.org)
Working with MITRE on several projects including 1) to measure doula use around and 2) to develop generative AI tools to help identify oncology patients for possible cancer drug trials.

Lyceum
In partnership with the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, MetroHealth is the first Epic customer ever to implement Lyceum, Epic’s new training platform specifically geared towards teaching first- and second-year medical school student electronic health record competencies.

* - Board Certified in Clinical Informatics
** - Board Eligible in Clinical Informatics