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Dr. Fiks’ research is aimed at improving outcomes for ambulatory pediatric patients through primary care, practice-based scholarship with a focus on improving health and healthcare decision-making through health information technology.
Dr. Fiks is a primary care pediatrician, a Professor of Pediatrics, and holds a Distinguished Endowed Chair in the Department of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Board certified in clinical informatics, Dr. Fiks’ research is aimed at improving outcomes for ambulatory pediatric patients through primary care practice-based research with a focus on improving health and healthcare decision-making through health information technology.
To achieve these goals, much of Dr. Fiks’ research has focused on fostering shared decision making between clinicians and families, often in the setting of behavioral health conditions. He is also especially interested in how electronic health record data may best be used to improve primary care, medication use and child health more broadly. With the American Academy of Pediatrics Pediatric Research in Office Settings Network, which he directs, Dr. Fiks has overseen the creation of the Collaborative Electronic Reporting for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER2), an electronic health record database designed to support pharmacoepidemiologic and other comparative effectiveness studies that currently includes >1.2 million US children from across multiple health systems.
Dr. Fiks is also the medical director for the Pediatric Research Consortium (PeRC), CHOP's practice-based research network, director of CHOP’s Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness (CPCE), a founding member of the hospital’s Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, and faculty in PolicyLab. He also directs the Possibilities Project, a CHOP-based effort focused on primary care practice innovation and transformation.
AB, Harvard University (Biology), 1992
MD, Harvard University, 1997
MSCE, University of Pennsylvania (Epidemiology and Health Services Research), 2007
Director, Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness
Medical Director, Pediatric Research Consortium
Director, The Possibilities Project
Distinguished Chair in the Department of Pediatrics
Founding Member, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Attending Physician
Professor of Pediatrics
Academic Pediatric Association
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Medical Informatics Association
Society for Pediatric Research
Young Investigator Award, Academic Pediatric Association, 2009
Outstanding Mentor Award, Academic Pediatric Association, 2012
Award for Patient Safety and Quality, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2013
Young Physician-Scientist Award, American Society for Clinical Investigation, 2013