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Andy M. Wiesenthal, MD, SM
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Associate Executive Director for Clinical Information Support
The Permanente Federation
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Andy M. Wiesenthal, MD, SM is associate executive director for Clinical Information Support for The
Permanente Federation. From 1983
until 2000, Andy served as a pediatrician and pediatric
infectious disease consultant with the Colorado Permanente Medical
Group (CPMG). He also led CPMG’s quality management program
and served as associate medical director for Medical Management, with
responsibility for quality management, utilization management, regulatory
compliance, risk management, credentialing and physician performance,
and informatics. His current work is in the arenas of development
and deployment of automated medical records, decision support, and
other clinical systems for all of Kaiser Permanente.
Andy graduated from Yale University with a BA degree
(with honors) in Latin American Studies in 1971 and received his medical degree
in 1975 from the State University of New York, Downstate Medical
Center in Brooklyn. He completed his pediatric residency at the
University of Colorado in 1978, and then served as an Epidemic Intelligence
service officer with the Centers for Disease Control from 1978 to 1980
before returning to the University of Colorado for a pediatric infectious
disease fellowship, which he completed in 1983. In 2004, Andy
earned an SM in Health Care Management from the Harvard School of
Public Health.
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