Bill Tierney, MD

Indiana University

Bill Tierney is a Professor of Community and Global Health and Associate Dean for Population Health at Indiana University’s Fairbanks School of Public Health. He’s also a part-time Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas’ Dell Medical School where he was the founding chair its Department of Population Health from 2015-2020. He has spent the rest of his career at IU as Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, President/CEO of the Regenstrief Institute, and Chair of Medicine at Wishard/Eskenazi Health where practiced primary care, emergency medicine, and hospital medicine for 35 years. Dr. Tierney’s research focuses on improving health care delivery and its outcomes for low-resourced individuals and populations through developing and implementing electronic health record systems, clinical decision support, community-based interventions, and health information exchanges in Indiana, Texas, and East Africa while conducting clinical database epidemiologic studies using these data. He is an elected member of National Academy of Medicine in 2006 and is a Master in the American College of Physicians and a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, and the Royal College of Physicians of London.