Avital O'Glasser, MD, FACP, SFHM

Dr. Avital O’Glasser is a hospitalist and associate professor of medicine within the Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, and Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).  Her clinical practice focus is perioperative medicine, and she is the Medical Director of OHSU’s Preoperative Medicine Clinic.

She is passionate about the multidisciplinary, comprehensive practice of perioperative medicine as an internist.  In addition to perioperative medicine, her academic interests include analyzing the role and effectiveness of social media within healthcare, particularly Twitter.  She additionally engages her passion for examining and promoting the overlap between medicine and novel or non-traditional scholarship, for example exploring and advocating how we can capture impact and reach of non-traditional work such as digital scholarship on CVs and applications.