David Liebovitz is a general internist committed to optimizing health for individuals and populations of patients, addressing both routine care and chronic disease management.

In addition to maintaining his internal medicine clinical practice, he serves as Executive Medical Director for Informatics Education and Innovation and as the Program Director for the Clinical Informatics Fellowship at the University of Chicago.

His research interests include leveraging electronic medical records with regard to patient safety, patient engagement, health care quality, and application usability. His work has included approaches to automate learning strategies to safeguard patient privacy, and to provide decision support tools for medication safety, laboratory follow-up, and problem list optimization.

Dr. Liebovitz received his electrical engineering degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and earned an MD from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Chicago and served as chief resident at Weiss Memorial Hospital, after which he held a faculty appointment at the University of Chicago until 2002. He then held a variety of operational, research, and educational responsibilities at Northwestern University, focusing on informatics as its Chief Medical Information Executive and in the CMIO at the University of Chicago until 2018. He also served as site principal investigator for informatics privacy and security related grants sponsored by the National Science Foundation and by the Department of Health and Human Services.