Dr. Kaelber is a practicing internist, pediatrician, Vice-President of Health Informatics, and Chief Medical Informatics Officer at the MetroHealth System. Dr. Kaelber is also Professor in the CWRU Department of Internal Medicine with a secondary appointment in the Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics. MetroHealth is an integrated health system and a primary teaching site for Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). Since the late 1990s, MetroHealth has been at the forefront in adopting electronic health records to advance high quality clinical care in the Cleveland area. Under Dr. Kaelber's leadership, MetroHealth implemented Care Everywhere, a health information exchange program that enables MetroHealth to share patient information with other healthcare systems in the United States. And, in 2011, Dr. Kaelber was instrumental in the development and launch of MyChart, the personal care health record complement of MetroHealth's EHR (Epic). Dr. Kaelber's research interests are rooted in pediatric populations where he has used EHR data to identify previously under-diagnosed hypertension patients and to monitor obesity trends over time. This work earned Dr. Kaelber recognition by the American Heart Association as one of the top ten breakthroughs in cardiovascular and stroke medicine in 2007. More broadly, Dr. Kaelber's research interests span EHRs, clinical decision support, use of EHRs in chronic disease detection and management, personal health records, and medical informatics.
Recent Publications
- Abbass, NJ, Allan, KC, Kaelber, DC, Singh, RP, Talcott, KE, Rachitskaya, AV. The Impact of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists on Risk of Retinal Vascular Occlusions. J Vitreoretin Dis 2026; : 24741264261486777. PubMed PMID:42898637 PubMed Central PMC13677990.
- Kim, SB, Jeong, H, Kaelber, DC, Singh, RP, Talcott, KE. Examination of Alzheimer Disease and Antidementia Medications' Effect on Age-Related Macular Degeneration. J Vitreoretin Dis 2026; : 24741264261490775. PubMed PMID:42898608 PubMed Central PMC13677991.
- Magoline, JA, Yoder, RG, Morscher, MA, Riley, PM Jr, Bono, KT, Polousky, JD, Kaelber, DC, Tysklind, RG. Trisomy 21 and Patellar Femoral Instability in a Pediatric Population: Results From 53,800 Patients. J Pediatr Orthop 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42860872 .
- Atta, S, Eppel, P, Russell, M, Kosuru, S, Asimakis, O, Attaran, M, Talcott, KE, Singh, RP, Kaelber, DC, Li, A et al.. Association of glaucoma diagnosis with sex hormone-related diagnoses and hormone-replacement therapy within a national U.S. database. Can J Ophthalmol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42858758 .
- Kim, SB, Zhou, MY, Allan, KC, Kaelber, DC, Babiuch, AS, Singh, RP, Talcott, KE. Corrigendum to "Evaluation of the Impact of Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid on Diabetic Retinopathy in a Large US Population-Based Cohort". Am J Ophthalmol. 2026;291:63-72. Am J Ophthalmol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42823210 .
- Ibrahim, EA, Saleh, N, Mansour, M, Alnounou, A, Mohamed, I, Ghnaimat, AA, Mahmoud, MAT, Kaelber, DC, Almomani, A. Preexisting depression and early outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease: a propensity score-matched cohort study. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2026; : 1-11. PubMed PMID:42775857 .
- Shah, S, Abusafia, M, Sheashaa, H, Jadam, S, Ospina, S, Kaelber, D, Keen, SK, Cho, L, Desai, MY. GLP-1 Analogues and Long-Term Outcomes in Adults With Obesity and Elevated CRP: A Real-World Matched Cohort Study. Am J Cardiol 2026; 280 : 1-4. PubMed PMID:42767411 .
- Chen, JHK, Shen, A, Kaelber, DC, Nowacki, AS, Arbesman, J. Response to Jean et al., "Unaddressed Immune Status Confounding in Antibiotic-Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Interaction Study for Merkel Cell Carcinoma". J Am Acad Dermatol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42762994 .
- Abdelmaksoud, A, Igoe, A, AbdAlnaeem, MA, Toraih, EA, Roller, BA, Kaelber, KL, Kaelber, DC. Increased Risk of Gout among Patients with Trisomy 21: Insights from a Population-Based Study of over 30,000 Patients with Trisomy 21. Mediterr J Rheumatol 2026; 37 (3): 590-597. PubMed PMID:42756659 PubMed Central PMC13583205.
- Haddad, EN, Amin, RS, Sharma, A, Zhao, A, Kim, SB, Kaelber, DC, Singh, RP, Talcott, KE, Rotroff, DM, Sayegh, RR et al.. Comorbidity Associations with Ocular Pain after Cataract Surgery: Overall and Sex-Stratified Analysis. AJO Int 2026; 3 (3): . PubMed PMID:42746502 PubMed Central PMC13576488.
