Michael Cantor, M.D.

• Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, NYU School of Medicine
• Director, Healthcare Informatics, Pfizer, Inc.

Curriculum Vitae

Michael Cantor joined Pfizer’s Healthcare Informatics group in February 2008. His work focuses on the secondary use of clinical data, personalized medicine, and automated methods for pharmacovigilance. At Pfizer, he is leading the PEER (Pfizer Externally Enabled Research) initiative, which aims to partner with academic medical centers to perform observational studies using data from electronic medical record (EMR) systems. He also helped lead Pfizer’s efforts with the e-Health Initiative’s Connecting Communities for Drug Safety, a partnership between academia and the pharmaceutical industry exploring the use of EMRs for pharmacovigilance. He is a member of Pfizer’s Personalized Medicine SMART team, and helped organize Pfizer’s Personalized Medicine symposium. Current projects also involve mobile technologies for healthcare and text mining for competitive intelligence.

Prior to joining Pfizer, Michael was the Chief Medical Information Officer for the South Manhattan Healthcare Network of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, based at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. His work there focused on developing the network’s EMR system to improve patient safety and on using the network’s clinical data warehouse for research. He continues to see patients 1 day/week at Bellevue, and is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at NYU School of Medicine. He is a graduate of Emory University School of Medicine, and completed his internal medicine residency and biomedical informatics fellowship at Columbia.

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