William Tierney

Adjunct Professor of Informatics

Phone

(317) 423-5519

Office

HS 2000
Indianapolis, IN

Other Titles

• Chancellor's Professor, Department of Medicine, IU School of Medicine

• Senior Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.
• Executive Director, Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Improvement and Research
• Director of Research, IU Kenya Program

Biography

Dr. Tierney received a B.A. degree (biological sciences) from Indiana University in 1973 and an MD from IU in 1976. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1979 and was Chief Resident at Wishard Memorial Hospital from 1979-1980. He joined the IUSM Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics in 1980 where he has been a clinician-investigator focusing on the application of information technology in medicine and its effects on the quality, efficiency, and costs of health care. He lead a team of Americans and Kenyans that implemented the first ambulatory electronic medical record system in sub-Saharan Africa that supports urban and rural primary care and specialty care for patients with HIV/AIDS. Dr. Tierney is a Senior Research Scientist at the Regenstrief Institute and currently serves as Chief of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He also is a practicing hospital physician at Wishard Hospital.

Dr. Tierney is Director of Research for the IU Kenya Program. He also co-directs ResNet, a primary care practice-based research network with 27 inner-city and suburban primary care practice sites in central Indiana where more than 250 physicians annually care for 150,000 adult and pediatric patients. Over its 30-year history, ResNet has hosted more than $30 million in extramurally funded studies and published more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed medical journals. Dr. Tierney is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, ranked in the top 20 among general medical journals.

Dr. Tierney is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science and a Master of the American College of Physicians. He was elected Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and was a Founding Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association. He is listed in the Guide to America's Top Physicians published by the Consumers' Research Council of America. Dr. Tierney has received more than $20 million as principal investigator in grants and contracts from federal agencies and research foundations and has published more than 250 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Tierney was named IUPUI Chancellor's Professor in 2004.