INDIANAPOLIS – William M. Tierney, MD, an international leader in medical informatics and health services research, has been named president and chief executive officer of the Regenstrief Institute.
The Regenstrief Institute is known for its medical research dedicated to improving the quality of healthcare, and is the World Health Organization's first and only Collaborating Center for Medical Informatics.
Pending approval by the Indiana University trustees, Tierney will also serve as associate dean for clinical effectiveness research at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
A graduate of Indiana University and the IU School of Medicine and one of Regenstrief's first post-graduate trainees, Tierney has spent his entire 30-year career as a physician-investigator with Regenstrief and the IU School of Medicine, where he is a chancellor's professor and the Joseph J. Mamlin Professor of Medicine.
Tierney studies the effects of innovative, computer-based interventions to improve healthcare quality and lower costs of healthcare delivery.
He has been the principal investigator on more than $22 million in grants from federal agencies and foundations. He has published more than 260 articles in leading medical journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association and the Annals of Internal Medicine. He has mentored 20 fellows and faculty members.
Tierney is stepping down from his current position as director of research for the IU-AMPATH Program in East Africa where, since 2002, he and IU colleagues have led a consortium of more than 15 North American universities performing research with Moi University in western Kenya.
"I am excited by the challenges we face and the prospects they present," said Dr. Tierney. "Building upon the 35 years of data of the Regenstrief Medical Record System and decades of groundbreaking health services and aging research, the Institute has an enormous opportunity to lead a revolution in healthcare systems and delivery of healthcare both in the United States and globall
y.
Tierney will assume his new positions in October succeeding Thomas S. Inui, MD, who remains with the institute where he will focus on global health research.
