Dr. Daniel B. Hier is Director of Physician Practice for the Neuroscience Center in the Outpatient Care Center and is Professor of Neurology and Rehabilitation in the College of Medicine.
Dr. Hier received his MD from Harvard Medical School cum laude. He completed an internship in medicine at Bronx City Hospital and a residency in Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He completed a 2-year NIH-sponsored fellowhip in Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Hier is certified in Neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Dr. Hier’s clinical interests include general neurology, cerebrovascular diseases, and dementia.
Dr. Hier serves as Education Editor for the American Academy of Neurology website AAN.com and is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology as well as a member of the American Neurological Association.
He obtained an MBA in health informatics from the University of Illinois at Chicago and has expertise in electronic medical records, electronic order entry, and electronic prescribing. He serves on the Education Committee and the Medical Economics and Management Committee of the American Academy of Neurology. He represents the American Academy of Neurology on the Physician Electronic Health Record Coalition.
Hier DB. Physician buy-in for an EMR. Healthcare Informatics. 19(10): 37-40, 2002 Oct.
Hier DB, Rothschild A, LeMaistre A, Keeler J. Differing Faculty and Housestaff Acceptance of an Electronic Health Record. Medinfo. 2004:1300-3, 2004.
Jao C, Hier DB, Su J. Evaluating a digital Resident Diagnosis Log: reasons for limited acceptance of a PDA solution. [Evaluation Studies. Journal Article] AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings/AMIA Symposium:876, 2003.
Jao C. Hier DB. Wei W. Simulating a Problem List Decision Support System: Can CPOE Help Maintain the Problem List? Medinfo. 2004(CD):1666, 2004
Hier DB, Rothschild A, LeMaistre A, Keeler J. Differing faculty and housestaff acceptance of an electronic health record. Int J Med Inform. 2005 Aug;74(7-8):657-62.
Jao CS, Brint SU, Hier DB. Making the neurology clerkship more effective: can e-Textbook facilitate learning? Neurol Res. 2005 Oct;27(7):762-7.
Hier DB, Wang J. Reduced cortical surface area in multiple sclerosis.Neurol Res. 2007 Apr;29(3):231-2.
Wang J, Hier DB. Motor reorganization in multiple sclerosis.Neurol Res. 2007 Jan;29(1):3-8.