Michael Fischer, MD, MSPH
Dr. Fischer is nephrology section chief at Jesse Brown VA Medical Center. He completed his fellowship in Nephrology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and his residency in Internal Medicine at Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.
Dr. Fischer completed a Career Development Award by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Health Services Research and Development Service, entitled, The Role of Chronic Kidney Disease in an Elderly High-Risk Population. In addition to VA funding, he is a funded co-investigator for the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study. He is also the principle investigator of the University of Illinois at Chicago Hemodialysis Opioid Prescription Effort (HOPE) Clinical Center, which is part of an eight center NIH clinical trial national consortium evaluating non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic strategies to reduce pain and opioid use in adults on maintenance hemodialysis. His research foci include health economics, depression, quality of life, and health disparities in Veterans and non-Veterans with CKD and ESKD, especially as it pertains to geriatric populations.
CURRENT POSITIONS
- Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
EDUCATION
- MD, Indiana University School of Medicine, 1996
- MSPH, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 2004
- BA, Biochemistry and German, Washington University in St. Louis, 1992
CONTACT INFORMATION
Michael.Fischer3@va.gov
PUBLICATIONS
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