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Andrew Gettinger, MD

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Professional Interests

Informatics, Transfusion, Technology, Health Policy

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Trustworthy Systems In Healthcare (NSF) co-PI
Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow 2012-13

Biography

Andrew Gettinger is professor emeritus of anesthesiology and former associate dean for clinical informatics at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and has recently completed service as the chief medical information officer (CMIO) for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health System in northern New England. He recently stepped down as the Chief Clinical Officer at the Office of the national Coordinator for Health IT, US Department of Health and Human Services. Gettinger has extensive experience in the field of health information technology. He led the development of an electronic health record (EHR) system at Dartmouth and subsequently was the senior physician leader during Dartmouth’s transition to a vendor- based EHR.

Gettinger’s clinical practice and research has been focused both on anesthesiology and critical care medicine, and on information technology as it applies generally to health care. He founded the clinical informatics group at Dartmouth. He has been an active participant in the policy debates regarding patient privacy at both the state and federal level. Currently, he is a co-investigator on a National Science Foundation grant focusing on areas of information systems privacy and security. Previously, he held an FDA investigator-sponsored Investigational New Drug Application (IND) exploring the use of recombinant erythropoietin in the management and care of critically ill patients.

Gettinger received his AB from Dartmouth College and his MD from Dartmouth Medical School. He trained at the Hartford Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in anesthesiology, pediatric anesthesiology, and critical care medicine. He is board certified in anesthesiology, critical care medicine and was one of the inaugural group certified in clinical informatics by the American Board of Preventive Medicine.