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- American Board of Internal Medicine Site
- The ABIM Foundation Site
- Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago
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Christine K. Cassel is an American physician, author, and professor specializing in geriatric medicine, medical ethics and quality of care. She is a Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco. [1] She was planning dean of the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine from 2016-2018. Until March 2016, she was president and CEO of the National Quality Forum. Previously, Cassel served as president and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation. [2]
A graduate of the University of Chicago, 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. Cassel is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine and geriatric medicine though she does not participate in the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. [3] She received an honorary degree from NYIT in 2016. [4]
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. [5] 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, advances in technology for hearing, technology and aging, and ensuring the safety of the nation's drinking water.
In addition to having chaired influential Institute of Medicine reports on end-of-life care and public health, [6] 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 Cassel among the 100 most influential people in health care, and among the 50 most influential physicians in 2013 and 2014. [7] 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. [8]
A national leader in efforts to inspire quality care, she was a founding member of the Commonwealth Fund's Commission on a High Performance Health System [9] 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 [10] in 1997. She has served on the board of the Greenwall 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). [11]
She previously served on the advisory committee to the NIH Director from 1995 to 2002 and as president of the American Federation for Aging Research. [12] Cassel's previous positions include dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs at Oregon Health and Science University, [13] chair of the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at Mount Sinai School of Medicine [14] in New York, and chief of General Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago. [15]
While she is certified in internal medicine and geriatric medicine, she does not participate in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification program. [16] She is a former chair of the ABIM board of directors, and is a former president of the American College of Physicians. [17] [18]
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