Eric W. Glissmeyer, M.D.

Bio

Dr. Glissmeyer cares for sick and injured children in the Primary Children’s Hospital Emergency Department. He attended medical school at the University of Utah School of Medicine, graduating in 2008. He completed residency training in General Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center in 2011. After fellowship training in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Utah, he joined the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

Clinically, Dr. Glissmeyer endeavors to provide excellent care to children with both self-limited and life-threatening illness and injuries. He also hopes to educate and support, treat pain and build a relationship of trust with parents.

While in medical school, Dr. Glissmeyer developed an interest in process and quality improvement and began studying the effects of care process models on care delivery and health resource utilization. While in residency, he researched a way to measure resident quality improvement education. As a fellow, he further developed his skills in system based practice and health systems via coursework in Biomedical Informatics and a fellowship with Intermountain Healthcare’s Institute for Health Care Delivery Research. His current research is focused on ski and snowboarding related trauma and the utility of laboratory testing for urinary tract infection in the infant with fever. He has also developed a diagnostic algorithm in conjunction with a multidisciplinary team of Surgeons and Radiologists at Primary Children’s Hospital to standardize the diagnosis of appendicitis.

He enjoys providing care to the children of the Intermountain Region while working with the excellent students, residents, nurses, therapists, technicians, support staff, and other pediatric specialists at Primary Children’s Hospital.

Board Certification and Academic Information

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Office Locations

Academic Bio

Dr. Glissmeyer cares for sick and injured children in the Primary Children’s Hospital Emergency Department. He attended medical school at the University of Utah School of Medicine, graduating in 2008. He completed residency training in General Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center in 2011. After fellowship training in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Utah, he joined the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He has worked with Intermountain Healthcare since 2014 on configuration of the emergecy department electronic health record, and as of February 2016 is the Director of Medical Informatics of the Primary Children's Region of Intermountain Healthcare, responsible for the configurtion, implementation, and optimization of the pediatric provider interface of iCentra, the electronic health record of Intermountain Healthcare.

Clinically, Dr. Glissmeyer endeavors to provide excellent care to children with both self-limited and life-threatening illness and injuries. He also hopes to educate and support, treat pain and build a relationship of trust with parents.

While in medical school, Dr. Glissmeyer developed an interest in process and quality improvement and began studying the effects of care process models on care delivery and health resource utilization. While in residency, he researched a way to measure resident quality improvement education. As a fellow, he further developed his skills in system based practice and health systems via coursework in Biomedical Informatics and a fellowship with Intermountain Healthcare’s Institute for Health Care Delivery Research. His current research is focused on the utility of laboratory testing for urinary tract infection in the infant with fever. He has also developed a diagnostic algorithm in conjunction with a multidisciplinary team of Surgeons and Radiologists at Primary Children’s Hospital to standardize the diagnosis of appendicitis.

He enjoys providing care to the children of the Intermountain Region while working with the excellent students, residents, nurses, therapists, technicians, support staff, and other pediatric specialists at Primary Children’s Hospital.

Research Statement

My research focuses on reducing unnecessary health care resourse utilization in conditions relevant to the emergency care of the sick or injured child, as well as the overall care of children 0-18 years in an enterprise-wide health system, facilitated by the iCentra electronic health record. Particularly, I focus on diagnostic utility of tests and optimizing diagnostic care processes, in the areas of febrile infants and appendicitis, with the goal of reducing costs by eliminating unnecessary tests and maximizing patient safety via limited use of radiographic tests with high doses of of ionizing radiation. I also am working to develop real-time decision support tools within iCentra to enhance the safety of patients receiving high-risk medications and with complex medical conditions.

Education History

Selected Provider Publications

Journal Article

1. Doupnik, Ziniel, Glissmeyer, Moses (In Press). The Assessment of Quality Improvement Knowledge and Skills (AQIKS): A Validation Study in Pediatric Residents. J Grad Med Educ.
2. Glissmeyer EW, Metzger R, Bolte R (In Press). Chair Lift Injuries and Falls in Children. Pediatr Emerg Care.

The Scope Health Sciences Radio

• Suspected Pediatric Appendicitis: When Should CT Scans Be Used?