Description of Clinical Expertise

Dr. Michel is a board certified pediatrician who works at an ambulatory care office in West Philadelphia. He provides primary patient care and is involved in both resident and medical student education. Recently, he has been involved in quality improvement activities for lead testing, immunizations, and obesity management. He incorporates innovative use of the EHR within his clinical care quality improvement initiatives.

Description of Research Expertise

Dr. Michel is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. He is board certified in pediatrics and informatics. He practices general pediatrics ambulatory care at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He completed an NLM-sponsored fellowship in clinical informatics at Yale University where he specialized in informatics to support translation of evidence into clinical practice, particularly surrounding uptake of guideline recommendations. During residency he developed a neonatal nutrition calculator that combined parental and enteral feeding information to support safe ordering and calorie intake calculations. He has further honed his skills as a physician programmer and completed training as quality improvement leader and EPIC physician builder. His first project at CHOP was to convert the 2007 Expert Committee recommendations for childhood obesity diagnosis and management and translate these into a clinical decision support (CDS) module. This was the one of the first clinical decision support modules to be published on the AHRQ’s CDS repository CDS Connect. He has consulted with the American Academy of Pediatrics on healthy childhood feeding practice in the first 3 years of life and interventions using technology to support obesity management and prevention and is actively engaged in a multi-site trial to evaluate implementation of clinical decision support for surrounding the soon new AAP Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines. He other work addresses topics related to ambulatory pediatrics including immunizations, care of the premature infant after hospital discharge, ADHD, immigrant and refugee health, and lead screening and management.