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photo Kristian Feterik, MD, MBA, FAMIA

General Internal Medicine

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine

Medical Staff President, UPMC Presbyterian/Shadyside

Medical Director, UPMC Enterprise Interoperability

Medical Director, UPMC Presbyterian/Shadyside Wound, Ostomy and Continence Team

Associate Program Director, UPMC Clinical Informatics Fellowship Training Program

Associate Medical Director, Clinical Documentation Integrity

UPMC Certified Physician Peer Coach

Email: feterikk@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-692-4882
Contact
Office: UPMC Montefiore
200 Lothrop Street, 933 West MUH
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
 
Phone: 412-692-4882
Fax: 412-692-4555
E-mail: feterikk@upmc.edu
Administrative Assistant:
Crystal Knorr Lisowski
Address: 200 Lothrop Street, MUH G100
Pittsbrugh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-692-4882
Education and Training
Education
MD, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University (Košice, Slovak Republic), 2000
MBA, University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA), 2011
Training
Internal Medicine Residency, Case Western Reserve University, St. Vincent Charity Hospital and St. Luke's Medical Center (Cleveland, OH), 2004
Diplomate, Clinical Informatics, American Board of Preventive Medicine, 2017
Research Interest
Dr. Feterik's research interests include direct secure messaging, health information exchange, interoperability, electronic health record optimization, electronic clinical quality measures, and clinical decision support.
Clinical Interest
Dr. Feterik joined the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh in 2008. He is a clinical informaticist and academic hospitalist in the Section of Hospital Medicine. Dr. Feterik serves as Associate Program Director and Core Faculty for the UPMC Clinical Informatics Fellowship training program. He is an active member of the Medical Executive Committee. He co-chairs the system-wide Health Information Management Committee and System Interoperability Strategy Committee.
Educational Interest
Dr. Feterik is a clinician educator with particular interest in teaching electronic health record skills to healthcare professionals, fundamentals of clinical informatics and data analytics, hospital-acquired pressure injuries, perioperative management, and venous thromboprophylaxis.
Publications
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Selected Publications:
Arvisais-Anhalt, S., Wickenhauser, K. A., Lusk, K., Lehmann, C. U., McCormack, J. L., Feterik, K. Direct Secure Messaging in Practice-Recommendations for Improvements. Appl Clin Inform. 2022; 13(3): 767-773.
Wongvibulsin, S., Feterik, K. Recommendations for Better Adoption of Medical Photography as a Clinical Tool. Interact J Med Res. 2022; 11(2): e36102.
Wong, R., Mehta, T., Very, B., Luo, J., Feterik, K., Crotty, B. H., Epstein, J. A., Fliotsos, M. J., Kashyap, N., Smith, E., Woreta, F. A., Schwartz, J. I. Where Do Real-Time Prescription Benefit Tools Fit in the Landscape of High US Prescription Medication Costs? A Narrative Review. JGIM. 2022.
Notable Achievements
Outstanding Teaching Attending Award, UPSOM Department of Medicine, 2013, 2015
"I Am Patient Safety Award," Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, 2018
Fellow, American Medical Informatics Association, 2020
Interoperability Hero, DirectTrust, 2021

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