Position
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Chair, Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee
Medical Director, UIC Physicians Group
Medical Director, Clinical Information Systems 
Chair, Clinical Decision Support Committee

Education & Training
B.S., Physics, with honors, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1984
M.S., Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1986
Ph.D., Physiology & Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1993
M.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1993
Internal Medicine Residency, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1993-96
NBIM Certified in Internal Medicine 1996
Chief Resident, Internal Medicine Residency, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1996-97
Fellow, Faculty Development, Department of Medical Education, 1999-2000

  Abstracts, Editorials & Publications

Schiff, G, Galanter, W, Duhig, J, Lodolce, A, Koronkowski, M, Lambert, B. Twenty-five Principles of Conservative Prescribing. Arch Intern Med. 2011. In press.

Walton S, Galanter W, Rosencranz H, Meltzer D, Stafford R, Tiryaki F, Sarne D A trial of inpatient indication based prescribing during computerized order entry with medications commonly used off-label. Applied Clinical Informatics. 2011. In press.

Yu, S. Galanter WL, Didomenico, RJ, Borkowsky S, Schiff G, Lambert B.  Consensus list of priority drug-lab linkages for an inpatient asynchronous alert program: Results of a Delphi survey.  Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2011. Mar 1;68. In press.

Yudkosky, R, Galanter W, Jackson R. Students overlook information in the electronic health Record, Med Ed 2010; 44:132-133

Galanter, W.L., Moja, J and Lambert, B. Using Computerized Provider Order Entry and Clinical Decision Support to Improve Prescribing in Patients With Decreased GFR.
Am J Kidney Dis. 2010: 56 (5)  p 809-812.

Galanter, WL, et al. Clinical Decision Support to Improve Venous Thromboembolism Risk Assessment, Prophylaxis and Prevention at a University Teaching Hospital.  Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2010. Aug 1;67(15):1265-73.

Galanter, WL, Liu, X and Lambert, BL.  An Analysis of Computer Alerts Suggesting Oral Medication Use During  Computerized Order Entry of Intravenous (IV) Medications. Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2010. Jul; 67, Issue 13, 1101-1105

Galanter, W.L., Hier, D.B., Jao, C. and Sarne, D. Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) of medications and clinical decision support (CDS)  can improve problem list compliance.  Int J Med Inform. 2010 May;79(5):332-338

Formulary Leveraged Improved Prescribing: Tool for Guiding Critical Formulary Decision Making. The AMCP Format for Formulary Submissions Ver. 3.0.
J Manag Care Pharm. 2010 Jan;16(1): Supplement, Appendix G, 2010

Yang Y, Touchette DR, Tiryaki F, Galanter W et al. Economic analysis of alvimopan for prevention and management of post-operative Ileus.
Value Health. 2010. Volume: 13 Issue: 3 Pages: A72-A72 

 Walton S, Galanter W, Tiryaki F, et al. Computerized interventions to obtain interventions to obtain indication information for inpatient prescriptions: A pilot study in drugs frequently used off-label. Value Health. 2010 Volume: 13 Issue: 3 Pages: A87-A87 

Patel V, Touchette D, Yang Y, Galanter W et al. Cost-Effectiveness of strategies for diagnosing heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.
Value Health. 2010. Volume: 13 Issue: 3 Pages: A209-A209

Nutescu EA, Bautista A, Gao W, Galanter W, Schumock G, Bookhart B, Moody S, Lambert B. Warfarin Anticoagulation After Total Hip or Knee Replacement in Real-World Clinical Practice: INR Patterns and Clinical Outcomes. Chest 2010;138:397A.

Nutescu EA, Bautista A, Gao W, Galanter W, et al. Quality of Oral Anticoagulation Management in Pharmacist Versus Nurse Managed Models of Care.
 J Thromb Thrombolysis. 2010. 29:2 p244-244

Darabi, H., Galanter, W.L., Lin, J, Buy, U and Sampath, R. Modeling and Integration of Hospital Information Systems with Petri Nets,  Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations, Logistics and Informatics. July 2009, 190-195.

Schiff GD and Galanter WL. Promoting More Conservative Prescribing. JAMA. 2009;301(8):865-67.  

Jao CS, Hier DB, Galanter WL. Using clinical decision support to maintain medication and problem lists: A pilot study to yield higher patient safety. Proc 2008 IEEE Int'l Conf on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. 2008:739-43.

Schiff GD, Duhig JE, Edison MI, Galanter W,  et al. Drug Formulary culture survey: Measuring the temperature of clinicians boiling blood. J Gen Int Med. 2009. 24 p 63-63. Suppl. 1

Duhig J, Edison M, Galanter W, et al. Conceptual issues in the development of a measure of formulary culture. Value Health. 2009. 12:3 A8-A8

 Tokumaru SM, Garofalo J, Zadoiskaya D, Galanter W, et al.. Clinical use of the modification of diet in renal disease (MDRD) equation in dosing of antimicrobials.  Crit Care Med, 2007. 35:12  A241-A241  Suppl. S

Baumann, J, Didomenico, R and GALANTER, W. Mechanisms, manifestations, and management of digoxin toxicity in the modern era., Am J Cardiovasc Drugs, 2006:6(2):77-86.

GALANTER, W.L., Didomenico, R and Polikaitis, A.Automated decision support alerts for contraindicated medications using computerized physician order entry. Journal of AMIA, Vol 12/3 p 269-274, 2005

GALANTER, W.L., Didomenico, R and Polikaitis, A. Effectiveness of automated clinical decision support alerts for inpatient digoxin use with computerized physician order entry. Journal of AMIA, Vol 11/4 pp 270-277, 2004

 GALANTER, W.L. “A case study in rules implementation”  Maryland HIMSS, 2003 (presentation)

GALANTER, W.L, Keeler J and Townsend, J. Transforming Healthcare with Information Technology at the University of Illinois Health System. American Health Imformation Management Assoc. , San Fransisco, 2002 (presentation)

GALANTER WL, Didomenico, RJ and Polikaitis A. Use of expert system to prevent exacerbation of adverse drug event. J Healthc Inf Manag. 2002 Fall;16(4):44-9.

GALANTER, W.L  and Polikaitis, A Designing Effective Automated Clinical Decision Support Solutions in the CPOE Environment Partnership for Patient Safety (p4ps) symposium, Washington DC, 2002

 GALANTER, W.L., Ruiz, O.S., Labotka, R.J. and Arruda, J.A.L. : Binding of nitrate to renal brush border membranes studied with [14]N nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Biochim. Biophys. Acta , 1237: 16-22, 1995.

GALANTER, W.L. and Arruda, J.A.L.: Cellular Adaptation to Hyponatremia: New Insights into the Mechanism. Kidney 4: 209-210, 1995.

GALANTER, W.L., Hakimian, M., and Labotka, R.J.: Structural determinants of substrate specificity of the erythrocyte anion transporter. Am. J. Physiol., 265 (Cell Physiol. 34): C918-926, 1993.

Labotka, R.J., GALANTER, W.L., and Misiewicz, V.M.: NMR spectroscopic studies of Band 3 function using substrate analogs: Substrate specificity, transport kinetics, and anion binding. Prog. Cell Res. Vol 2, E. Bamberg and H. Passow (Eds.), 121-128, 1992.

Active Funding

 Tools for Optimizing Prescribing, Monitoring and Education (TOP-MED), Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERT), Funding Source AHRQ HS016973-01
PI: Bruce Lambert. Co-Investigator: William Galanter, 7/2007-6/2011. 

The University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS), Funding Source: National Center For Research Resources. 1UL1RR029879-01
PI: Ted Mazzone, Consultant:  7/2009-6/2013 

Abbott Labs, Communicating Safe and Appropriate drug use to patients and families. Funding Source: Abbott Labs. PI M. Wolfe. Co-Investigator 1/2010-7/2012

The University of Chicago Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERT), Funding Source AHRQ HS016967  
PI: D. Melzer. Co-Investigator: William Galanter, 3/2010-7/2011.    

Chicago HIT Regional Extension Center. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). ARRA Health Information Technology Extension Program:
Regional Centers. PI: Abel Kho. Co-Investigator: William Galanter, 1/15/2010-1/14/2014.