Alan Weitberg, MD

Director of the Atrius Health Academic Institute; Hematologist/Oncologist at Harvard Vanguard Kenmore/Atrius Health; Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine; Lecturer in Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Weitberg serves as the Director of the Atrius Health Academic Institute where he oversees the development and implementation of all research and educational programs at Atrius Health. The Academic Institute is comprised of Centers for Clinical Research, Education, Analytics & Informatics and Healthcare Innovation. A major research interest of the Institute is redesigning care delivery to improve clinical outcomes, focus on patient-centered care innovation and reduce provider burnout by streamlining workflows. A multi-year project with IBM Watson Health is in progress to develop innovative tools in the workplace to reduce provider work burden while offering therapeutic options in real time. Multiple grant partners exist both locally and nationally in a variety of funded projects including medication adherence, telemedicine, childhood obesity, NLP research and Medically Home.