Donald R. Fischer, MD, MBA
Senior Vice President
Highmark Inc.

Donald R. Fischer, MD, MBA, is senior vice president of Health Affairs and chief medical officer at Highmark Inc. Among his responsibilities are clinical strategy, quality management, pharmacy affairs, and preventive health services.

Dr. Fischer is a 1973 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and received his MD from the University of Illinois in 1977. After completing a pediatric residency and pediatric cardiology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in 1981, he joined the full time faculty there in the division of pediatric cardiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, being promoted to full Professor in 1995. He held the position of medical director at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh from July 1996 through December 2000. Dr. Fischer also holds an MBA degree from the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business. He joined Highmark in 2001.

Dr. Fischer is Board certified in pediatrics and pediatric cardiology, and is a fellow in both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Cardiology. He is a certified physician executive in the American College of Physician Executives. He is a member of the Boards of Directors of Gilda’s Club of Western Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative, and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. He also is President of the Board of the Western Pennsylvania chapter of the American Heart Association.