William Tierney, M.D.

Dr. Tierney is the Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He is also a health services researcher with specialty training in medical informatics whose research has focused on improving the quality and efficiency of health care by improving health care delivery systems. Specifically, he has worked to provide patient- and task-specific information to health care providers at critical points in their process of making clinical decisions. Recently, he has created a Resource Center for U.S. primary care practice-based research networks, funded by AHRQ. He is also the Director of IU's International Clinical Research Program, combating HIV/AIDS in collaboration with a medical school in rural Kenya. In this latter effort, he and his American and Kenyan colleagues have established sub-Saharan Africa's first ambulatory electronic medical record system which is being used as the foundation for establishing a practice-based research network of African HIV clinics.

Dr. Tierney has authored or co-authored more than 180 articles in peer-reviewed medical journals and is the past co-editor-in-chief of Medical Care, the premier international peer-reviewed medical journal committed to health services research. He is also past-president of the Society of General Internal Medicine. He has been the principal investigator of extramural grants and contracts totaling more than $12 million.

Contact info:
William Tierney, M.D.
Division of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics
Indiana University Dept. of Medicine
1001 West 10th Street, WH-OPW M200
Indianapolis, Indiana 46202-2879
317-630-6911
wtierney@iupui.edu