Michael A. Pfeffer MD, FACP

Michael Pfeffer, MD, FACP serves as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the UCLA Health Sciences, which is comprised of the UCLA Hospital System, the UCLA Faculty Practice Group, and the David Geffen School of Medicine. Dr. Pfeffer is responsible for the development and operations of the information systems, the overall health IT strategic plan, and the implementation of transformative and innovative technologies to further UCLA's mission of healing humankind one patient at a time. With UCLA's initial "Big-Bang" go-live in March 2013, Dr. Pfeffer served as the lead physician and Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) for UCLA's electronic health record encompassing over 26,000 users.

Dr. Pfeffer serves as a core faculty member for the internal medicine residency program, focusing on information technology solutions for educating residents and improving transitions of care. He is an associate program director for UCLA's new ACGME-accredited clinical informatics fellowship. In addition, he continues to practice as an academic hospitalist, working with residents and medical students in the care of patients.

Dr. Pfeffer's interests include quality and clinical decision support in electronic health records, resident education, and transitions of care, specifically involving the hospital discharge process. Dr. Pfeffer received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Brown University, his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College where he served as class president for all four years, and completed his residency, and chief residency in internal medicine at UCLA. He is an assistant clinical professor of medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Pfeffer is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics and was nominated for the Becker's Healthcare CIO Leadership Awards 2015.