Robert M. Wachter, MD is the author of 300 articles in the medical literature as well as others in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today and Wall Street Journal.

He coined the term “hospitalist” in 1996 and is often considered the “father” of the hospitalist field, the fastest growing medical specialty in U.S. history. He has written six books, including The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age, which was a New York Times science bestseller.

His honors include selection as the most influential physician in the United States (Modern Healthcare Magazine, 2015), the Eisenberg award (nation’s top honor in patient safety, 2004), and election to the National Academy of Medicine (2020). In 2020-21, his tweets on COVID-19 were viewed over 250 million times by nearly 200,000 followers and served as a trusted source of information on the clinical, public health, and policy issues surrounding the pandemic.