Joshua M. Pevnick

Biography

Joshua Pevnick, MD, MSHS, is an assistant professor of Medicine in the Cedars-Sinai Division of General Internal Medicine. He also serves as the Associate Director of the Division of Informatics. As a health services researcher, Pevnick studies medication management and health information technology, with areas of prior or current focus including medication reconciliation, polypharmacy, medication adherence, care transitions, inter-physician communication, patient-generated data, health information exchange, and clinical decision support. Pevnick studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Pomona College. He subsequently returned to his native state to earn a medical degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia. During medical school, Pevnick was awarded a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to spend a year studying at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He then completed a residency in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai and a fellowship in health services research at the West Los Angeles Veterans Hospital. In conjunction with this fellowship, Pevnick was awarded the HIMSS Foundation Masters Scholarship and received a masters degree in health services from UCLA. During the roll out of Cedars-Sinai's inpatient electronic health record, he served an operational role in Cedars-Sinai's Enterprise Information Services. Since being awarded KL2 funding through the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute in 2013, Pevnick has devoted most of his time to research. In January 2014, he joined the American Board of Preventive Medicine's inaugural class of board-certified clinical informaticists. In 2015, he was awarded K23 funding from the National Institute on Aging.   Education Medical School: University of Missouri School of Medicine, 2002 Residency: Cedars-Sinai, 2005 Fellowship: VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, 2008 Master's: UCLA, 2009 Cedars-Sinai Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences Department of Medicine

Research Interest

General Internal Medicine