Juergen Fritsch

Chief Scientist

Dr. Fritsch was named Chief Scientist for MedQuist following the Company's merger with M*Modal in August 2011.  Dr. Fritsch was previously Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of M*Modal, where he  was instrumental in growing the company’s IP portfolio and establishing its leadership role in the field of conversational speech understanding. Before founding M*Modal, he was one of the founders of Interactive Services (ISI), where he served as Principal Research Scientist and was responsible for developing a next generation medical speech understanding system. Dr. Fritsch held research positions at the University of Karlsruhe and at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Fritsch  has published more than 20 papers and has been granted numerous patents on various speech recognition and natural language processing aspects relevant to the healthcare domain. Dr. Fritsch  earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe.