Kiron Nair, MD

Undergraduate – City University of New York, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education (Concentration in Health Disparities, BS/MD program)

Medical School –Albany Medical College

Residency – Internal Medicine, Albany Medical Center

Faculty Appointment – Clinical Senior Instructor of Internal Medicine

Role in Fellowship Program – Second year fellow

Brief Description – Dr. Nair is an experienced hospitalist who has been practicing since 2016 with a focus on providing care for vulnerable populations. She seeks to build on her solid base of clinical experience through the fellowship program’s emphasis on operational informatics and leadership skill development.

Dr. Nair’s passion in informatics is in creating and implementing useful solutions to improve healthcare delivery and experience, while preserving the sanctity of the patient-clinician relationship.

Dr. Nair’s special interests in informatics include translational research, data analytics, global health informatics, technological solutions for low resource clinical settings, and consumer health informatics. She is particularly interested in health disparities & social determinants of health, and she hopes to leverage MetroHealth’s vast expertise in this area during the fellowship. Outside of work she enjoys spending time in the stillness of nature, and in the company of her loved ones.

Selected Recent Projects

Inpatient Social Determinants of Health Screening and Referral System: MetroHealth has had a robust ambulatory SDOH screening program for years, however inpatient SDOH screening was limited to a percentage of patients screened during admission. This project, which was a multidisciplinary effort with Case Management/Social Work and Nursing leadership, created a comprehensive inpatient screening and referral system for admitted patients by leveraging Epic’s MyChart Bedside for patient self-administered screening to improve outreach. 

Standardization and Maintenance of an EMR-Based Organizational On-Call Directory: MetroHealth had a successful implementation of the Epic On-Call-Finder (OCF) in 2020 as the main directory of on-call information for a multitude of services. However, the information was not consistently updated over time to reflect organizational changes, and this affected the accuracy of the directory. This project sought to create and implement a process of scheduled systematic review of the directory information. We also created a standardized naming convention and a systematic workflow to address requests for changes to ensure continued accuracy of the OCF. 