Michael A. Pfeffer

6.8k citations

57 papers · 2.2k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 24

Impact in

Health Informatics top 0.1%
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
Health Information Management top 0.5%
- Electronic Health Records Systems

Papers in

Health Informatics 15
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education 15
Health Information Management 11
- Electronic Health Records Systems 7
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare 4

Co-authors: Nigam H. Shah David A. Entwistle Bruce D. Levy J M Pfeffer Eugene Braunwald I. Mirsky Roxanne H. Croze Mohib Uddin
Journals: JAMA Network Open (5 papers)Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (4 papers)npj Digital Medicine (3 papers)Applied Clinical Informatics (2 papers)JAMA (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Sweden Canada

In The Last Decade

Michael A. Pfeffer

52 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Physician Perspectives on Ambient AI Scribes 2025 · 22 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2025 JAMA Network Open
2024 JAMA
2024 JAMA Network Open
2024 Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
2023 JAMA

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1	Development of secure infrastructure for advancing generative artificial intelligence research in healthcare at an academic medical center Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association ·Madelena Y. Ng, A. B. Zhusipbayeva, Michael A. Pfeffer, Tina Seto, Tina Hernandez‐Boussard	2025	6
2	Optimizing large language models for detecting symptoms of depression/anxiety in chronic diseases patient communications npj Digital Medicine ·Jiyeong Kim, P. Stephen, Michael L. Chen, Isaac R. Galatzer‐Levy, John Torous, Peter van Roessel, Christopher Sharp, Michael A. Pfeffer, Carolyn I. Rodríguez, Eleni Linos, Jonathan H. Chen	2025	0
3	A Systematic Review of Testing and Evaluation of Healthcare Applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) medRxiv ·Suhana Bedi, James L. de Filippis, C. Wang, Dev Dash, Oluwasanmi Koyejo, Alison Callahan, Jason Fries, Michael Wornow, Akshay Swaminathan, Lisa Soleymani Lehmann, Hyo Jung Hong, Mehr Kashyap, Akash Chaurasia, Nirav R. Shah, Karandeep Singh, Chelsea Giroir, Arnold Milstein, Michael A. Pfeffer, Nigam H. Shah	2024	16
4	Ambient artificial intelligence scribes: utilization and impact on documentation time Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association ·P. Stephen, Bo Zhang, Shreya Shah, José María Pérez Ballonga, J. A. López Narváez, Anna Devon-Sand, 虞立琪, Qiulan Dai, Marek Hamm, Steven Lin, Tait D. Shanafelt, Michael A. Pfeffer, Christopher Sharp, Patricia García	2024	40
5	Individual and community socioeconomic status and receipt of influenza vaccines among adult primary care patients in a large academic health system: 2017–2019 Heliyon ·Sae Takada, Istvan Szini, Philippe Bourgois, O. Kenrik Duru, Lillian Gelberg, Maria Han, Michael A. Pfeffer, Steven Shoptaw, Kenneth M. Wells, Marjan Javanbakht	2024	1
6	Visit-to-visit changes in heart rate in heart failure: a pooled participant-level analysis of the PARADIGM-HF and PARAGON-HF trials European Heart Journal ·Henri Lu, Brian Claggett, Milton Packer, Michael A. Pfeffer, Karl Swedberg, Jean-Lucien Rouleau, Michael R. Zile, Martin Lefkowitz, Akshay S. Desai, Pardeep S. Jhund, John J.V. McMurray, Scott D. Solomon, Muthiah Vaduganathan	2024	1
7	Balancing Innovation and Cybersecurity in Medical Schools and Their Related Academic Health Systems Academic Medicine ·Filiz Saygun, Michael A. Pfeffer, Laura Weiss Roberts	2023	1
8	The shaky foundations of large language models and foundation models for electronic health records npj Digital Medicine ·Michael Wornow, Yizhe Xu, Rahul Thapa, Birju Patel, Ethan Steinberg, Scott L. Fleming, Michael A. Pfeffer, Jason Fries, Nigam H. Shah	2023	143
9	Evaluating the predictive ability of natural language processing in identifying tertiary/quaternary cases in prioritization workflows for interhospital transfer JAMIA Open ·Timothy Lee, P. IMAZU, Sitaram Vangala, Kamran Kowsari, Kirsten Helmut Reuter, B. Piasecki, Michael A. Pfeffer, Douglas S. Bell	2023	1
10	The Stanford Medicine data science ecosystem for clinical and translational research JAMIA Open ·Alison Callahan, Euan A. Ashley, Somalee Datta, Thomas Hines, Todd Ferris, Jason Fries, Filiz Saygun, Curtis P. Langlotz, Sean Mackey, Jose Posada, Michael A. Pfeffer, Nigam H. Shah	2023	17
11	Excess Patient Visits for Cough and Pulmonary Disease at a Large US Health System in the Months Prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Time-Series Analysis Journal of Medical Internet Research ·Joann G. Elmore, Pin‐Chieh Wang, Kathleen F. Kerr, David L. Schriger, Douglas E. Morrison, Ron Brookmeyer, Michael A. Pfeffer, Thomas H. Payne, Judith S. Currier	2020	10
12	Radiology’s Information Architecture Could Migrate to One Emulating That of Smartphones Journal of the American College of Radiology ·Dieter R. Enzmann, Corey Arnold, Edward Zaragoza, Eliot L. Siegel, Michael A. Pfeffer	2020	2
13	Impact of Open Access to Physician Notes on Radiation Oncology Patients: Results from an Exploratory Survey Practical Radiation Oncology ·Narek Shaverdian, Woltman Hw, Fang-I Chu, Ozgur Carti, Michael A. Pfeffer, Eric M. Cheng, Allan D. Wu, Susan A. McCloskey, Ann C. Raldow, Michael L. Steinberg	2018	8
14	The UCLA Health Resident Informaticist Program – A Novel Clinical Informatics Training Program Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association ·Jennifer Singer, Eric M. Cheng, Dio Dio, Michael A. Pfeffer	2016	17
15	A Bad Case of Good’s Syndrome Infectious Diseases and Therapy ·Raffi Tachdjian, Anastasia Ika Kristanti, Michael A. Pfeffer	2014	8
16	Aspirin-triggered resolvin D1 reduces mucosal inflammation and promotes resolution in a murine model of acute lung injury Mucosal Immunology ·Olaf Eickmeier, Hiroyuki Seki, Oliver Haworth, Jan N. Hilberath, Allan Gillies, Mohib Uddin, Roxanne H. Croze, Troy Carlo, Michael A. Pfeffer, Bruce D. Levy	2012	153
17	Lovastatin decreases acute mucosal inflammation via 15-epi-lipoxin A4 Mucosal Immunology ·Anna Planagumà, Michael A. Pfeffer, George Rubin, Roxanne H. Croze, Mohib Uddin, Charles N. Serhan, Bruce D. Levy	2010	83
18	Corticosteroid suppression of lipoxin A4 and leukotriene B4from alveolar macrophages in severe asthma Respiratory Research ·Pankaj Bhavsar, Bruce D. Levy, Mark Hew, Michael A. Pfeffer, Shamsah Kazani, Elliot Israel, Kian Fan Chung	2010	64
19	Comparison of Serum Ethinyl Estradiol, Sex-Hormone-Binding Globulin, Corticoid-Binding Globulin and Cortisol Levels in Women Using Two Low-Dose Combined Oral Contraceptives Hormone Research ·Han Yi-lin, Gloria B. Wren, W. Kuhnz, Michael A. Pfeffer, K. Brill, R. Heithecker, Ana Luiza Costa, J.K. Lee	1990	29
20	Protein binding of the contraceptive steroids gestodene, 3-keto-desogestrel and ethinylestradiol in human serum Journal of Steroid Biochemistry ·W. Kuhnz, Michael A. Pfeffer, Luvena Anthony	1990	42

About Michael A. Pfeffer

Michael A. Pfeffer is a scholar working on Health Informatics, Health Information Management, General Health Professions, Emergency Medicine and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, having authored 57 papers that have together received 2.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education (15 papers), Machine Learning in Healthcare (8 papers), Electronic Health Records Systems (7 papers), Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation (5 papers), Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (4 papers), Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare (4 papers), Hormonal and reproductive studies (3 papers) and Reproductive Health and Contraception (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Health Informatics (497 citations), Health Information Management (184 citations), Family Practice (49 citations), Biochemistry (141 citations) and Nutrition and Dietetics (250 citations). Michael A. Pfeffer has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Nigam H. Shah, David A. Entwistle, Bruce D. Levy, J M Pfeffer, Eugene Braunwald, I. Mirsky, Roxanne H. Croze, Mohib Uddin, Troy Carlo and Oliver Haworth. Their work appears in journals such as JAMA Network Open, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, npj Digital Medicine, Applied Clinical Informatics and JAMA.

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