Alexander G. Fiks, MD, MSCE

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Dr. Fiks is a primary care pediatrician, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and holds a Distinguished Endowed Chair in the Department of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Board certified in clinical informatics, Dr. Fiks’ research is aimed at improving outcomes for ambulatory pediatric patients through practice-based research with a focus on improving health and health care decision-making through health information technology. With the American Academy of Pediatrics Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS) Network, which he directs, Dr. Fiks has been involved in building the Collaborative Electronic Reporting for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER²), an electronic health record database designed to support pharmacoepidemiologic and other comparative effectiveness studies that currently includes >1.2 million US children from across multiple health systems.

Dr. Fiks is also the Medical Director for the Pediatric Research Consortium (PeRC), CHOP’s practice-based research network, Associate Director of CHOP’s Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness (CPCE), a founding member of the hospital’s Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, and faculty in PolicyLab. He also leads the Possibilities Project, a CHOP-based effort focused on primary care transformation. He actively mentors multiple faculty and academic fellows.