Michael Grasso, MD, PhD, FACP, FAMIA, ABPM-CI - Personal Information


Biosketch

Michael Grasso is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He practices Emergency Medicine through the University of Maryland School of Medicine.  He is also board certified in Clinical Informatics, Director of the Clinical Informatics Group at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Program Director of the Graduate Certificate and Master of Science in Clinical Informatics programs at the University of Maryland Baltimore.

He earned a medical degree from the George Washington University and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He completed residency training at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is a member of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society in the Computing Sciences, the Kane-King-Dodec Medical Honor Society, the William Beaumont Medical Research Honor Society, is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP), and is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA).

He has been awarded more than $2,000,000 in grant and contract funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Department of Defense. He has authored more than 70 refereed publications, and has more than 25 years of experience in Clinical Informatics and Scientific Computing with an emphasis on software engineering, human factors, clinical decision support, and data science. He is currently working with the national clinical repository from the Veterans Health Administration, which contains data on more than 35 million patients from roughly 150 medical centers and 800 outpatient clinics. He also works with the EPIC clinical repository from the 14 member hospitals within the University of Maryland Medical System and the Maryland Emergency Medicine Network. His research focuses on knowledge representation and reasoning, quality improvement in Emergency Medicine, opioid prescribing practices, and online consumer health information.


Shorter Biosketch

Michael Grasso is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from George Washington University and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He completed residency training at the University of Maryland. He works clinically in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Baltimore VA Medical Center and the University of Maryland Medical Center. He is and Program Director of the Graduate Certificate and Master of Science in Clinical Informatics programs in Clinical Informatics at the University of Maryland Baltimore, Director of the University of Maryland Clinical Informatics Group, is board certified in Clinical Informatics, is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP), and is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA). He has authored more than 70 refereed publications, and has received grant funding from NIH, NIST, DoD, NASA, and other sources. He has over 25 years of experience in Clinical Informatics with an emphasis on clinical decision support, data science, and software engineering. He works with the national clinical repository from the Veterans Health Administration and the EPIC clinical repository from the 14 member hospitals within the University of Maryland Medical System. His research focuses on knowledge representation and reasoning, quality improvement in Emergency Medicine, opioid prescribing practices, and online consumer health information.


Very Short Biosketch

Michael Grasso is a physician and an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He works clinically in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He also holds a PhD in Computer Science, is board-certified in Clinical Informatics, is Director of the University of Maryland Clinical Informatics Group, and Program Director of the Graduate Certificate and Master of Science in Clinical Informatics programs at the University of Maryland Baltimore. He has authored more than 70 refereed publications, and has received grant funding from NIH, NIST, DoD, and other sources. His research focuses on knowledge representation and reasoning, clinical software engineering, quality improvement in Emergency Medicine, opioid prescribing practices, and online consumer health information.