Adele L. Towers, MD, MPH, FACP

Dr. Towers is the senior clinical advisor for UPMC Enterprises. She is directly involved in the development of healthcare-related technology, with emphasis on use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for risk adjustment coding and use of clinical analytics to optimize clinical performance. Prior to this role, she has served as the medical director for health information management (HIM) at UPMC, with responsibility for clinical documentation improvement as well as inpatient coding denials and appeals.