David Lobach, MD, PhD, MS

Position:

Technology and Strategy Consultant

Skills:

Medical Technologist

Level:

Senior

Experience:

25 Years

Personal Experience

Dr. David Lobach is a nationally recognized medical informatician specializing in clinical decision support and population health with over 20 years of experience designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating applied information systems that enable innovative new approaches to health care delivery. He is currently the lead consultant for Klesis Healthcare, a company dedicated to advising clients in pragmatic uses of data and technology to improve care and lower costs with an emphasis on population health management, clinical decision support, and data analytics for large healthcare delivery systems. Dr. Lobach is also an Associate Consulting Professor on the faculty of the Duke University School of Medicine. In his 25 years of affiliation with Duke, he served for 12 years as the Chief of the Division Clinical Informatics and has been Principal Investigator or co-PI on 21 grants totaling over $20M with funding. He has published 95 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has contributed to the national road map for clinical decision support and to defining the meaningful use of clinical decision support through federally sponsored workshops and think tanks. He was the principle investigator on an Evidence-based Practice Center report on the status of clinical decision support systems sponsored by AHRQ in 2012. Dr. Lobach served as the primary clinical informatics advisor for the Southern Piedmont Beacon Community from 2011 to 2013. He was elected to fellowship in the American College of Medical Informatics in 2004.

In addition to his work in clinical informatics, Dr. David Lobach is a board certified endocrinologist with 25 years of clinical practice experience. He currently serves as the endocrinology consultant for the Duke Family Medicine program where he sees patients in a primary care practice setting. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and has been elected by his peers for several years running to the Referral List for Best Doctors, Inc.

Summary Skills

Creative Problem-Solving
Resource Optimization
Strategic Planning
Entrepreneurship
System Design
Workflow Analysis

Summary Skills

System Development
IT System Evaluation
Grant Writing
Grant Management
Scientific Publication
IRB Regulatory Compliance

Technical Experience

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