Dr. John Hotchkiss is an Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and a staff Intensivist and Nephrologist at the Pittsburgh VA Medical Center. He earned his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Chicago. Dr. Hotchkiss completed an Internal Medicine residency and Nephrology / NRSA fellowship at the University of Minnesota, a Critical Care fellowship at Hennepin County Medical Center, and a Pulmonary T32 fellowship, again at the University of Minnesota. He was a clinician with HealthPartners Medical group, where he also secured an American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant (acute lung injury) and NIH funding (antimicrobial resistance in dialysis patients). In 2004 he left his practices to join the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Hotchkiss' scholarly interests focus on applying contemporary mathematical techniques to practical issues in clinical medicine. Approaches currently in use range from multivariate partial differential equations, through agent based models, to formal (quantitative) linguistic analyses.
Current domains of activity include geoeconomic and strategic analyses of chronic disease management (particularly end stage kidney disease), use of computer simulation for training providers (in both Critical Care and Nephrology), and application of formal linguistic approaches to characterize patient physiology, define practice pattern variability, and assess provider performance (parallel efforts in both Critical Care and Nephrology). These areas of interest have been funded by NIH and VA/CBO.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Dr. John R. Hotchkiss
Phone: (412) 647-6966
Email: jrh39@pitt.edu