Mount Sinai Doctors
Ira Hofer, MD
Anesthesiology
About Me
Ira S. Hofer, MD is a practicing anesthesiologist and clinical informaticist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Hofer has been working in the field of big data analytics and electronic health record (EHR) data for over 15 years. He was the founding Director of the Division of Bioinformatics for the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine where he established a group responsible for both departmental analytics as well as all analytics for UCLA Health Operative Services and the Emergency Department. Under his leadership, the group successfully improved OR operations and efficiency and implemented innovative automated preoperative patients screening using EHR data.
Dr. Hofer’s research interests involve leveraging the data from the EHR to understand, quantify and ultimately mitigate risk in the perioperative period. His work includes some of the first papers to apply machine learning techniques for perioperative outcome prediction and has been featured on the cover of both Anesthesiology and Anesthesia&Analgesia. Ira has a K01 from the National Heart Lung and Blood institute and serves as an associate editor for Anesthesia & Analgesia. His current research focus is on creating featurization techniques to incorporate a wide range of EHR data into machine learning models in order to improve discrimination and calibration as well as establishing multi-center perioperative collaboratives to better share raw and processed EHR data.
Language
Position
Hospital Affiliations
- Mount Sinai Queens
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
About Me
Ira S. Hofer, MD is a practicing anesthesiologist and clinical informaticist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Hofer has been working in the field of big data analytics and electronic health record (EHR) data for over 15 years. He was the founding Director of the Division of Bioinformatics for the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine where he established a group responsible for both departmental analytics as well as all analytics for UCLA Health Operative Services and the Emergency Department. Under his leadership, the group successfully improved OR operations and efficiency and implemented innovative automated preoperative patients screening using EHR data.
Dr. Hofer’s research interests involve leveraging the data from the EHR to understand, quantify and ultimately mitigate risk in the perioperative period. His work includes some of the first papers to apply machine learning techniques for perioperative outcome prediction and has been featured on the cover of both Anesthesiology and Anesthesia&Analgesia. Ira has a K01 from the National Heart Lung and Blood institute and serves as an associate editor for Anesthesia & Analgesia. His current research focus is on creating featurization techniques to incorporate a wide range of EHR data into machine learning models in order to improve discrimination and calibration as well as establishing multi-center perioperative collaboratives to better share raw and processed EHR data.
Language
Position
Hospital Affiliations
- Mount Sinai Queens
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
Education
MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Internship, Other, Not Listed
Elmhurst Hospital Center
Residency, Other, Not Listed
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Certifications
American Board of Anesthesiology
Insurance Information
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Industry Relationships
Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology companies, and other outside entities to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their outside financial relationships.
Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Hofer during 2024 and/or 2025. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
Board Service
- Extrico Health
Consulting or Other Professional Services Examples include, but are not limited to, committee participation, data safety monitoring board (DSMB) membership
- Extrico Health
Equity (Stock or stock options valued at greater than 5% ownership of a publicly traded company or equity of any value in a privately held company)
- Extrico Health
Founder/Co-Founder/Partner
- Extrico Health
Mount Sinai's faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.
Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology companies, and other outside entities to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their outside financial relationships.
Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Hofer during 2024 and/or 2025. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
Board Service
- Extrico Health
Consulting or Other Professional Services Examples include, but are not limited to, committee participation, data safety monitoring board (DSMB) membership
- Extrico Health
Equity (Stock or stock options valued at greater than 5% ownership of a publicly traded company or equity of any value in a privately held company)
- Extrico Health
Founder/Co-Founder/Partner
- Extrico Health
Mount Sinai's faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.