Christine K. Cassel

Christine K. Cassel, MD, President and CEO of the National Quality Forum, is a leading expert in geriatric medicine, medical ethics and quality of care. Previously, Dr. Cassel served as President and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and the ABIM Foundation.[1]

Dr. Cassel is one of 20 scientists chosen by U.S. President Barack Obama to serve on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, which advises the President in areas where an understanding of science, technology, and innovation is key to forming responsible and effective policy. She is the co-Chair and Physician Leader of a PCAST working group that made recommendations to the President on issues relating to health information technology and ways to promote scientific innovation in drug development and evaluation.

In addition to having chaired influential Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports on end-of-life care and public health, she served on the IOM's Comparative Effective Research Committee mandated by Congress to set priorities for the national CER effort (PCORI). Modern Healthcare has recognized Dr. Cassel among the 100 most influential people in health care, and among the 50 most influential physicians in 2013 and 2014 . An active scholar and lecturer, she is the author or co-author of 14 books and more than 200 journal articles on geriatric medicine, aging, bioethics and health policy. She edited four editions of Geriatric Medicine, a leading textbook in the field. Her most recent book is Medicare Matters: What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care.

Dr. Cassel has been recognized by NIH as one of the leading women leaders in science, and was the first woman to be President of the American College of Physicians and to be Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine.

A national leader in efforts to inspire quality care, Dr. Cassel was a founding member of the Commonwealth Fund's Commission on a High Performance Health System, and served on the IOM committees that wrote the influential reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm. She was appointed by President Clinton to the President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry in 1997. She has served on the board of the Greenwald Foundation since 1992, the board of the Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plans since 2002 and the board of the National Physician Alliance since 2006. She also sits on the editorial board of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Dr. Cassel is also respected as a scientific leader, having served on the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director, 1995 – 2002, and as President of the American Federation for Aging Research. She is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Senior Fellow in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine. Dr. Cassel's previous positions include dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs at Oregon Health and Science University, chair of the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and chief of General Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Cassel, board certified in internal medicine and geriatric medicine, is a former Chair of the ABIM Board of Directors, and is a former President of the American College of Physicians. Recipient of numerous international awards and honorary degrees, Dr. Cassel is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Medicine of the U.K. and Canada, the European Federation of Internal Medicine, and is a Master of the American College of Physicians.

Books and Articles

Dr. Cassel is the author or co-author of 14 books, including:

She has edited and authored a number of books, including:

Recent articles include:

Education

A graduate of the University of Chicago, Dr. Cassel received her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and completed a residency in internal medicine at the Children's Hospital of San Francisco and a fellowship in geriatrics at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Portland, Oregon. Additionally, she completed a bioethics health policy fellowship program at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and awards of distinction, including Fellowship in the Royal Colleges of Medicine in the United Kingdom and Canada, and Mastership in the American College of Physicians. Dr. Cassel is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine and geriatric medicine.

See also

American Board of Medical Specialties

External links

References

  1. ↑ "Christine K. Cassel, MD". Retrieved 2007-06-09.
  2. ↑ JAMA. 2009; 301(3):321-323
  3. ↑ PNAS December 29, 2009: 106:52:22037
  4. ↑ JAMA. 2010;304(9):1009-1010.
  5. ↑ NEJM 2011; 364;12:1169-1173
  6. ↑ JAMA;2-12;307(17):1801-1802.
  7. ↑ JAMA 2012;307(20):2151-2152
  8. ↑ JAMA 2012;307(24):2595-2596.
  9. ↑ JAMA 2012;308(10):979-980.
  10. ↑ JAMA 2012;308(12):1211-1212
  11. ↑ N Engl J Med 2013;368(6)500-501
  12. ↑ JAMA 2013;309(8)773-774
  13. ↑ JAMA 2013;309(11):1115-1116
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