Mark Weiner, MD

Dr. Weiner received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering and his MD degree both from the University of Pennsylvania. He undertook postgraduate clinical training in general internal medicine and was an NLM-supported Fellow in Applied Informatics. Upon completion of his fellowship he stayed on at Penn where at the time of election he was an Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of Information Systems Integration for Research, and Senior Fellow in the Davis Institute of Health Economics. He also served as Co-Chief of the Biostatistics and Informatics core in the Philadelphia VAís Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion. Dr. Weiner has applied his knowledge of clinical database development and its use in clinical research toward a number of health services research endeavors including measuring and improving quality of care, and comparative effectiveness research. This work has been applied within a diverse set of research projects including understanding the impact of Emergency Department crowding on health outcomes, understanding the many risk factors for antibiotic resistant infections, exploration of factors contributing to patient non-compliance with medications and procedures, evaluations of factors that contribute to clinical inertia among providers, and detection of important health disparities. Developing research data repositories has been a central theme of Dr. Weinerís work, and an early innovation of his was the Pennsylvania Integrated Clinical and Administrative Research Database (PICARD) system which provided one of the first web interfaces to a research data systems. PICARD is a longitudinal database integrating clinical and administrative data from multiple information systems, including the health system's ambulatory care EHR, the laboratory results reporting system, and billing. Dr. Weiner has been an active contributor to AMIA and the Society of General Internal Medicine, chairing AMIAís Primary Care working group and serving on Scientific Program Committees. For SGIM he chairs the Informatics Interest Group and Web technology cluster. At the time of election, Dr. Weiner had more than 65 publications in the area of applied informatics. His work on the idea of ìVirtual Clinical Trialsî was presented at the AMIA Symposium in 1998 and predated the era of the CTSAís and anticipated many of the scenarios of federated data queries across research data warehouses that are actively being pursued by current Clinical and Translational Science Awardee (CTSA) institutions. These sustained achievements are recognized by his election to the College.