Avital O’Glasser MD, FACP

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 also the assistant program director for social media and scholarship for OHSU’s Internal Medicine Residency Program. She is the inaugural editor of the WIMS Blog. She is passionate about the multidisciplinary, comprehensive practice of perioperative medicine as an internist. In addition to perioperative medicine including the periop care of COVID-19 survivors, 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. In the spirit of encouraging and participating in digital scholarship, she also serves as the honorary chief of perioperative medicine for the internal medicine podcast The Curbsiders.