Donald R. Fischer, MD, MBA is senior vice president of Integrated Clinical Services and chief medical officer at Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield in Pittsburgh, Pa. Among his responsibilities are quality management, pharmacy affairs, medical management, behavioral health management, preventive health services, medical policy and clinical client relationships. His division is focused on seamless integration of proactive clinical services for Highmark’s members. He is also actively involved in Highmark’s regional strategy to address childhood obesity.
Dr. Fischer is a 1973 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and received his MD from the University of Illinois in 1977. After completing a pediatric residency and pediatric cardiology fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh in 1981, he joined the full-time faculty in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He was promoted to the rank of professor in 1995, and held the position of medical director at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh from July 1996 through December 2000. Dr. Fischer also holds an MBA degree from the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate School of Business. He continues to have an academic appointment as clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Dr. Fischer is board-certified in pediatrics and pediatric cardiology, and is a fellow in both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Cardiology. He is a certified physician executive in the American College of Physician Executives.
He is a member of the boards of directors of the Pennsylvania Cancer Control Consortium (PAC3), the Western Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Heart Association, the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative, and the DePaul School for Hearing and Speech. He was appointed a member of the Governor's Commission on Chronic Care in September 2007.
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