Dr. David Kaelber

Dr. David Kaelber, M.D. is a practicing internist and pediatrician in the MetroHealth System. After completing his MD, PhD program at Case Western Reserve University, he completed a National Library of Medicine Informatics Fellowship at Partners Health, while completing his MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health. He became MetroHealth's first Chief Medical Informatics Officer in 2008.

His work using electronic health records to discover underdiagnosis of hypertension in children and adolescents was selected as a top 10 advanced in all of stroke and cardiovascular medicine by the American Heart Association in 2007 and won a Ladies Home Journal healthcare breakthrough award in 2008. He has been identified as one of the top 25 clinical informaticists in the country by Modern Healthcare.

He academic interests include using electronic health records to improve care, engage patients, and conduct research.