Andrew Pumerantz

Dr. Pumerantz is Chief of Infectious Disease, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, and Assistant Provost for Strategic Initiatives at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California. He has more than 25 years of experience spanning a spectrum of patient care, medical education, and research that focused in large part on the infectious complications of diabetes. Dr. Pumerantz became alarmed by the realization that in spite of ongoing advances in biomedical research and drug development, successful diabetes management remained elusive. He looked at a prevailing care delivery system characterized by fragmentation and non-integration that paid more attention to the treatment of disease than to the achievement and maintenance of health. In addressing the need to redefine health care delivery in the face of exponentially growing diabetes pandemic, Dr. Pumerantz founded, and is Executive Director of the Western Diabetes Institute (WDI). The WDI is an integrated, cross-disciplinary practice and research unit organized around diabetes, associated heart disease, and other co-morbidities, wherein people with diabetes can obtain a comprehensive evaluation that assesses the complexity and severity of their condition in a single visit and helps to deliver more precise, personalized, and team-based care across the total cycle. Dr. Pumerantz developed a novel composite schema, the “Diabetes Cross-Disciplinary Index©”, to serve as a balanced scorecard and lingua franca that promote shared decision-making aligned with the patient’s health goals. The WDI manages a research registry that enables measurement of outcomes and the costs of delivering those outcomes to patients. WDI is piloting their innovative diabetes care model with California’s largest managed Medi-Cal (Medicaid) health plan and using ClickMedix as its digital healthcare platform.

Dr. Pumerantz holds an AB from Occidental College in Los Angeles, and a DO from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He trained in internal medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City where he also served as a Chief Medical Resident. In 1995, Dr. Pumerantz completed infectious diseases fellowship at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Pumerantz is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.