Michael Adam Fischer MD, MS

Professor, General Internal Medicine

Section Chief, General Internal Medicine

801 Massachusetts Ave | (617) 414-7288
mikefisc@bu.edu
Michael.Fischer@bmc.org

Sections

General Internal Medicine

Biography

Michael Fischer, MD, MS is Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center/Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. He is a primary care physician and health services researcher with expertise in developing and evaluating interventions to increase the use of evidence-based medical practices.

Dr. Fischer began his career at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, conducting research evaluating medication adherence; the appropriate use of prescription drugs; dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices; prescription drug reimbursement policy; and the impact of electronic prescribing. He is the Director of the National Resource Center for Academic Detailing (www.NaRCAD.org), an initiative supported by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to assist organizations implementing interventions to improve health care quality and patient outcomes.

Websites

BU Profile

NCBI Bibliography

Section of General Internal Medicine

National Resource Center for Academic Detailing

Education

Medicine, MD, Yale University School of Medicine

Health Policy Management, MS, Harvard School of Public Health

Social Studies, AB, Harvard College

Publications

Published on 4/20/2026

Khemraj UD, Dedier JJ, Navarro J, Fischer MA, Xuan Z, de la Vega PB. Social Medicine Approaches to Community-Integrated Diabetes Care: A Narrative Review of Clinic-Based Triaging and Closed-Loop Referral Interventions. J Gen Intern Med. 2026 Apr 20. PMID: 42010103.

PubMed

Published on 2/26/2026

Schuering KM, Sewell K, Hua J, Fischer MA, Schulson LB. Health Care Utilization and Cancer Screening Among Patients with Neurodivergence in a Safety-Net Adult Primary Care Clinic. J Gen Intern Med. 2026 May; 41(7):1780-1787. PMID: 41749004.

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Published on 11/17/2025

Schulson LB, Fischer MA, Streed CG. A Dangerous Retreat: Defunding AHRQ and the Threat to Diagnostic Safety. J Gen Intern Med. 2026 Apr; 41(5):1410-1412. PMID: 41249651.

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Published on 10/9/2025

Morgan-Barsamian AR, El Ibrahimi S, Hendricks MA, Blalock KL, Stack E, Wyss R, Hatch BA, Sánchez V, Fischer MA. Impact of a Multi-Factorial Primary Care Intervention on Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Overdose Outcomes. J Prim Care Community Health. 2025; 16:21501319251375393. PMID: 41065116.

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Published on 8/18/2025

Miyawaki A, Ladines-Lim JB, Sato D, Kitajima K, Linder JA, Fischer MA, Chua KP, Tsugawa Y. Association of patient, physician and visit characteristics with inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in Japanese primary care: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Public Health. 2025; 3(2):e002364. PMID: 40842720.

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Published on 7/23/2025

Brown T, Guzman A, Lee JY, Fischer MA, Friedberg MW, Linder JA. Clinicians' Reasons for Non-Visit-Based, No-Infectious-Diagnosis-Documented Antibiotic Prescribing: A Sequential Mixed-Methods Study. Antibiotics (Basel). 2025 Jul 23; 14(8). PMID: 40867935.

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Published on 8/16/2024

Chua KP, Fischer MA, Rahman M, Linder JA. Changes in the Appropriateness of US Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing After the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis of 2016-2021 Data. Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Aug 16; 79(2):312-320. PMID: 38648159.

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Published on 5/14/2024

Ladines-Lim JB, Fischer MA, Linder JA, Chua KP. Appropriateness of Antibiotic Prescribing in US Emergency Department Visits, 2016-2021. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2024; 4(1):e79. PMID: 38751940.

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Published on 4/26/2024

Ladines-Lim JB, Fischer MA, Linder JA, Chua KP. Prevalence of Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing with or without a Plausible Antibiotic Indication among Safety-Net and Non-Safety Net Populations. J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Jul; 39(9):1606-1615. PMID: 38671203.

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Published on 11/20/2023

Cromer SJ, Steiner B, York C, Mastrorilli J, Lake GA, Leibowitz S, Simmons L, Steppel-Reznik J, Low G, Fischer MA, Patorno E, Wexler DJ. Successful implementation of a stakeholder engagement program for pharmacoepidemiologic research. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2024 Jan; 33(1):e5727. PMID: 37985010.

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