Stephan Dittle Fihn MD, MPH

Professor Fihn is a general internist with interests in measurement and and evaluating models of health care delivery. He also serves as Head of the Division of General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine and as Director of the Office of Analytics and Business Intelligence for the Department of Veterans Affairs. In the past he studied interventions to improve quality of care and outcomes for a variety of clinical conditions including urinary tract infections, chronic anticoagulation and ischemic heart disease. His recent work addresses developing and evaluating system-level interventions to enhance primary care delivery and population health such as the Patient Centered Medical Home in the VA system.