Dr. Robert C. Goldszer

 

Robert C. Goldszer is Associate Chief Medical Officer and Director of Primary Care in the Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  He is responsible for 13 primary care office sites and a 123  physician network. His focus is on quality of patient care, patient satisfaction, education, and financial success of the primary care network.

 

As Associate Chief Medical Officer, Dr Goldszer has been responsible for such programs as standing orders for vaccines, pneumonia care improvement, and improving information at transitions of care. Dr Goldszer has lead many of Brigham and Women’s utilization management programs to decrease unnecessary expenses for printing of reports, medications, blood bank, and new products acquisitions.

 

Dr. Goldszer is a clinical liaison to Brigham and Women's Information Systems. He is the executive sponsor for the electronic medical record and the computerized discharge summary, both implemented in July 2000. He is a physician representative to the Brigham and Women's Internet committee. He has been the team leader for new computerized order entry order sets to improve quality of care and using voice recognition for medical transcription..

 

Dr. Goldszer maintains a patient care practice focusing on patients with hypertension and renal disease and attends on the General Medical Service of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital 6 weeks per year.

 

Dr. Goldszer holds an appointment as Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical.  He earned a B.A. in history from the University of Wisconsin and received his medical degree and internal medicine residency from Hahnemann University in Philadelphia.  He completed his renal fellowship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1982.  He has been a member of the full time faculty at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School since 1979. In June 1999, he received his MBA from Boston University’s Executive MBA Program, and was elected to membership in Beta Gamma Sigma National Honor Society for Business Students.