Andrew Gettinger, MD

Andrew Gettinger

Dr. Andrew Gettinger is an attending anesthesiologist and the CMIO of Dartmouth-Hitchcock. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and a Professor of Anesthesiology and Associate Dean for Clinical Informatics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He is board certified in anesthesiology and critical care medicine and is a recent graduate of the AAMC Group on Information Resources Leadership Institute.

He led the development of Dartmouth-Hitchcock's highly successful Clinical Information System (CIS) for the past 15 years. During that time, he represented the institution locally, regionally and nationally and guided policy issues regarding privacy and access to protect health information. He is actively involved in the transition from CIS to eDH, the 80 million dollar Dartmouth implementation of EPIC, as the senior physician champion. He mentors a number of computer science graduates and post graduates and lectures at all three of Dartmouth's graduate schools.

Dr. Gettinger earned his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1979. After his anesthesiology residency at Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut, he completed a Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, New Hampshire, as well as a Pediatric Anesthesiology and Critical Care Fellowship at the Children's Hospital Medical Center at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.