Principal Investigator
Annemarie G. Hirsch, PhD, MPH
Dr. Hirsch is a chronic disease epidemiologist with over 20 years of experience working with electronic health record data to support epidemiologic research. She is a professor in Geisinger’s Department of Population Health Sciences and Director of the Geisinger-Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Community Environment and Health. Dr. Hirsch has held leadership positions in multiple federally funded diabetes research networks, including the Diabetes LEAD (Location, Environmental Attributes, and Disparities) Network and the Assessing the Burden of Diabetes by Type in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults (DiCAYA) Network. In addition to diabetes surveillance, Dr. Hirsch is a co-investigator for the Surveillance Based Lyme Disease Network (SubLyme), a CDC-funded research network tasked with developing EHR-based surveillance of Lyme disease.
About Our Center
The Geisinger and University of Pittsburgh research teams have a long history of conducting electronic health record-based research and are deeply embedded within their respective health systems. Geisinger is an integrated health system that primarily serves Pennsylvania. Geisinger includes a network of primary and specialty clinic sites including more than 40 community-based primary care clinics and 10 hospital campuses. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is an academic health care system that includes 40 tertiary care, specialty, and community hospitals; as well as specialized outpatient facilities, long-term care facilities, and physician offices. Both Geisinger and UPMC provide a mix of primary and specialty care that captures patients with a full spectrum of disease. Together, these health systems serve patients in all but four of 67 counties in Pennsylvania.
