Michael A. W. Hattwick, MD, Medical Director

Michael A.W. Hattwick, M.D., is a practicing physician in a primary care internal medicine practice in Fairfax County, Virginia. He was born in Illinois, raised in Texas, and educated at Harvard, Georgetown, and the University of London.

Dr. Hattwick is board certified in Internal Medicine and in Preventive Medicine with a subspecialty interest in Preventive Cardiology. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of the Departments of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine of Georgetown University School of Medicine, a Member of the Governing Council of the Virginia Chapter of the American College of Physicians, and a Past President of the Virginia Society of Internal Medicine. Dr. Hattwick is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and is a Doctor of Integrative Medicine.

Before he entered full-time medical practice, Dr. Hattwick served as Chief Medical Advisor and Director of the Health Examination Survey of the National Center for Health Services Research, as Director of the Surveillance and Assessment Center of the National Influenza Immunization Program, as Director of the Special Pathogens Branch of the Viral Disease Division Epidemiology Program at the Center for Disease Control, and as a Registrar and Visiting Lecturer at St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School. He participated in the Institute of Medicine's Study of Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance, published in 1990, was a member of the IOM Committee to Advise the Public Health Service on Clinical Practice Guidelines, whose report also was published in 1990, the IOM Committee on CLinical Practice Guidelines, published in 1992, and the IOM Committee on Telemedicine, published in 1997.

Since 1978, Dr. Hattwick has been actively using computers to implement preventative medicine guidelines in his clinical practice. He has been the American College of Physicians Appointee to the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Technology Evaluation Center from 1993 to the present. In 1994 he founded NoVa HealthCare to provide assistance to physicians using clinical practice guidelines. Since 1995, NoVa HealthCare has used Guidelines for Utilization Management for Trigon Blue Cross Blue Shield of Virginia and other organizations.

Dr. Hattwick received the 1997 Distinguished Internist Award from the Virginia Society of Medicine. The American Society of Internal Medicine honored Dr. Hattwick with its 1997 Special Recognition Award for his interest and activity in the development and implementation of clinical practice guidelines.