Michelle Spiegel, M.D., Research Profile

Michelle Spiegel, M.D.

Assistant Professor
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, and Sleep Medicine

Research Type: Quality Improvement, Implementation Science

Michelle Spiegel, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Medicine. Her research centers on quality and safety and implementation science. She seeks to identify and address “systems" issues that may contribute to adverse patient events and to innovate large-scale interventions aimed at implementing best practices, standardizing care, and translating new research findings into bedside practice. She is particularly focused on the development and implementation of novel clinical decision support systems within the electronic health record to support these efforts while also reducing clinicians’ cognitive burden. She has received institutional recognition and multiple funding awards for innovations in standardizing and improving evidence-supported balanced fluid prescribing, standardization of the triaging of patients with acute hypercarbic respiratory failure requiring non-invasive ventilation, improving timely removal of unneeded central venous catheters, and improving multiple ventilator best practices (lung protective ventilation, ventilator-associated pneumonia bundle adherence, and daily spontaneous awakening and breathing trial performance). Dr. Spiegel mentors the annual fellowship-wide quality improvement project and has also co-mentored residents and post-doctoral fellows on quality improvement- and implementation science-focused research projects.

Dr. Spiegel received her Bachelor of Science in Biology and her M.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She completed her internal medicine residency training and pulmonary and critical care fellowship training at the Medical University of South Carolina. Post-fellowship, she completed a graduate certificate in health care quality and safety at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She joined the faculty at MUSC in 2021.

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