Nancy L. Davis, PhD
Dr Davis is a founder and serves as Executive Director of
the National Institute for Quality Improvement and Education
(NIQIE). The Institute is dedicated to improving patient care
through the integration of quality improvement and continuing
professional education.
Dr. Davis joined the Association of American Medical College in
September 2011 as Director, Practice-Based Learning and
Improvement. Her primary responsibilities include working with
academic medical centers to align their quality improvement and
medical education programs as well as faculty development in
quality improvement and patient safety.
Previously, Dr. Davis served as Director of CME for the American
Academy of Family Physicians, where she championed evidence-based
and performance improvement CME. Her work with the AMA contributed
to the current CME credit designation for point of care and
performance improvement CME activities.
She has served as CME Committee Chair for the American College of
Medical Quality, on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for CME,
is a past president of the Society for Academic CME and has served
as Chair of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies CME
Directors' Group. She is a Fellow of the Alliance for CME and is
credentialed as a Certified CME Professional and a Certified
Professional in Healthcare Quality. She was appointed Sr. Fellow in
the Jefferson School of Population Health in 2009 and is a member
of the National Quality Forum's National Priorities Partnership
Work Group on Patient Safety. In March 2011 she was elected to the
National Board of Medical Examiners.
Dr. Davis earned a PhD in Adult and Continuing Education at
Kansas State University in 1998. She has a master's degree in
healthcare administration and a bachelor's degree as a physician
assistant. An experienced clinician, educator and researcher, she
has taught graduate students, presented in numerous national forums
and published in peer reviewed journals, including the Journal for
Continuing Education in the Health Professions, Teaching and
Learning in Medicine, Medical Teacher and the American Journal of
Managed Care. She co-authored (with Dave Davis) a Guide to CME for
the Association of Medical Education in Europe, which is being
translated into several languages, and co-authored a book chapter
on Teaching Quality Improvement in Medical Education for the
American College of Medical Quality.
Frank Fortin, CAE
Mr. Fortin is Chief Digital Strategist and Communications
Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society. He's responsible
for the MMS' member print and electronic newsletters, its website,
media relations, social media channels, and other digital
communications activities. He joined the MMS in 1998 after a career
in print journalism, television journalism, and marketing and
public relations consulting.
Gary L. Gottlieb, MD, MBA
Dr. Gottlieb serves as President and CEO of
Partners HealthCare, assuming the position on January 4, 2010. Dr.
Gottlieb comes to this role with a deep and rich history with
Partners. He served as President of Brigham and Women's/ Faulkner
Hospitals since March of 2002. He is also a Professor of Psychiatry
at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Gottlieb was recruited by Partners to become the first
chairman of Partners Psychiatry in 1998 and he served in that
capacity through 2005. In 2000, he added the role of President of
the North Shore Medical Center where he served until early
2002.
Prior to coming to Boston, Dr. Gottlieb spent 15 years in
positions of increasing leadership in health care in Philadelphia.
In 1983, he arrived at the University of Pennsylvania as a Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar. Through that program, he
earned an M.B.A with Distinction in Health Care Administration from
Penn's Wharton Graduate School of Business Administration. He
credits the program with building a foundation of interest in
health policy, management and academic leadership.
Dr. Gottlieb went on to establish Penn Medical Center's first
program in geriatric psychiatry and developed it into a nationally
recognized research, training and clinical program. Dr. Gottlieb
rose to become Executive Vice-Chair and Interim Chair of Penn's
Department of Psychiatry and the Health System's Associate Dean for
Managed Care. In 1994, he became Director and Chief Executive
Officer of Friends Hospital in Philadelphia, the nation's oldest,
independent, freestanding psychiatric hospital.
In addition to his noteworthy academic, clinical and management
record, Dr. Gottlieb has published extensively in geriatric
psychiatry and health care policy. He is a past President of the
American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry. Dr. Gottlieb received
his BS cum laude from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his
M.D. from the Albany Medical College of Union University in a
six-year accelerated biomedical program. He completed his
internship and residency and served as Chief Resident at New York
University/Bellevue Medical Center.
Now, as a recognized community leader in Boston, Dr. Gottlieb
also focuses his attention on workforce development and disparities
in health care. He was appointed by Mayor Thomas Menino as Chairman
of the Private Industry Council, the city's workforce development
board, which partners with education, labor, higher education, the
community and government, to provide oversight and leadership to
public and private workforce development programs. In 2004-2005, he
served as co-chair of the Mayor's Task Force to Eliminate Health
Disparities.
Dr. Gottlieb believes Partners HealthCare mission is its compass
- to inspire, to nurture, to challenge the best and the brightest
to step forward and care for the sickest and neediest in our
community and around world.
Jacob R. Karas, MD, FCCP
Dr. Karas has been on the medical staff at North Shore
Medical Center for 38 years. As a practicing
pulmonologist, he was the Director of the Respiratory Care
Department and Director of Critical Care for 10 years.
In 2001, he became Chief of Medicine and Director of Continuing
Medical Education at Union Hospital. In 2005, Dr. Karas assumed the
role of Vice Chair of Medicine and Director of Continuing Medical
Education for the North Shore Medical Center. He serves
on many hospital committees and chairs the Code Blue Committee,
Medical Review Committee, Infusion Committee, Physician Phonothon
Committee, CME Committee, and the Department of Medicine
[INVALID]ion Committee for the Physician of Excellence. Most
recently he was elected Chair of the MMS Committee on Accreditation
Review.
Murray Kopelow, MD, MS(Comm), FRCPC
Dr. Kopelow is the Chief Executive and Secretary of
the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME),
where he leads the ACCME's efforts to identify, develop and promote
standards for quality continuing medical education and ACCME's
programs to certify that providers of continuing medical education
(CME) are meeting those standards. Dr. Kopelow has been responsible
for the evolution of the accreditation system through the
introduction of the 2000 criterion referenced new system, the 2004
[INVALID] of the ACCME's Standards for Commercial Support:
Standards to Ensure Independence, and the 2006 [INVALID]d
Accreditation Criteria which position accredited "CME as a Bridge
to QualityTM". Prior to his current role, Dr. Kopelow practiced
general, critical care and emergency pediatric medicine at the
Children's Hospital of Winnipeg, University of Manitoba, Canada,
where he also served as Associate Dean for Continuing Medical
Education, Director of Programs for International Medical Graduates
and Chair of the University Senate Committees on Instruction and
Medical Qualifications.
Dr. Kopelow has had many opportunities to work on CME issues
domestically, and internationally, including serving as a member of
the International "Rome" Group on Harmonization of CME/CPD credit
and accreditation, being a participant in the work of the
Federation of State Medical Boards' Special Committee on
Maintenance of Licensure, and now as participant in the work of the
American Board of Medical Specialties Maintenance of Certification
Task Force. Having been active in studying tools for the evaluation
clinical competence for medical schools and credentialing
organizations, in Canada and the United States, Dr. Kopelow is an
author and co-author of more than 30 peer and non peer reviewed
articles on evaluation and assessment across the continuum of
medical education.
From June through December 2009, Dr. Kopelow served as a Special
Advisor to the Office of Demand Reduction within the Office of
National Drug Control Policy of the Executive Office of the
President of the United States.
A native of Canada, Dr. Kopelow holds a medical degree from the
Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba and a Masters of
Science in Communications Systems from the Department of
Communications Studies at Northwestern University. He is a fellow
of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and a
successful participant in that organization's maintenance of
certification program.
Danna G. Muir, MBA
Ms. Muir has dedicated more than ten years to physician
education and grassroots advocacy in her work with the
Massachusetts Medical Society. She currently serves as Manager,
Accreditation & Education Outreach and is the staff liaison for
the MMS Committee on Accreditation Review. Previously,
she served as the Manager, MMS Southeast Regional Office where she
worked with six district medical societies and developed activities
for community outreach. She is a surveyor for the
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical
Education.
Kate Regnier, MA, MBA
Ms. Regnier is Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Operating
Officer of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical
Education (ACCME) and has been with the ACCME since 1995. Ms.
Regnier oversees the processes whereby national providers of
continuing medical education (CME) seek initial Accreditation or
Reaccreditation and state/territory medical societies are reviewed
against the Markers of Equivalency for Recognition as accreditors
of CME providers within their states. In addition, Ms. Regnier
directs the monitoring and education functions of the ACCME, and
serves as the staff liaison for the ACCME's Board of
Directors.
Ms. Regnier received a BA Degree in English from Holy Cross
College, a Master's Degree in English from Northwestern University,
and a Master's Degree in Business Administration from Loyola
University of Chicago.
Stancel M. Riley, JR., MD, MPA, MPH
Dr. Riley is the Executive Director of the Massachusetts
Board of Registration in Medicine. He is board certified
thoracic surgery.
After earning a Masters in Public Administration and Public
Health from Harvard University, Dr. Riley remains active as a
mentor and tutor to Harvard Medical School's Combined MD/MBA
program and its Patient Doctor III program with Massachusetts
General Hospital. Dr. Riley received his medical degree from
the University of Alabama at Birmingham and is an Adjunct Assistant
Professor for UA's College of Nursing program in
Huntsville.
Dr. Riley has co-authored numerous studies/articles on patient
safety, accountability and health care access and is a member of
statewide organizations such as the Massachusetts Coalition for the
Prevention of Medical Errors, the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient
Safety and Massachusetts Health Care Quality and Cost Council, to
name a few. Nationally he is a member of the National Quality
Forum Steering Committee for reviewing and changing Serious
Reportable Events.
Marc Rubin, MD
Dr. Rubin has been Chair of the Department of Surgery
at North Shore Medical Center since 2005 and is a Clinical
Instructor in Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Board certified in
General and Colon and Rectal Surgery, Dr Rubin has a busy clinical
practice and is President of Surgical Specialists of the North
Shore, a large multispecialty surgical group. At NSMC Dr Rubin has
developed and implemented a number of innovative safety and quality
programs and is a member of both the Patient Care Assessment
Committee and the Quality and Professional Affairs Committee.
He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the North Shore
Health System since 2006.
Dr Rubin also has served as Associate Editor of the journal
Diseases of the Colon and Rectum and sits on the Quality and Safety
Committee of the American Society of Colon and Rectal
Surgeons. He is a member of the Quality and Patient Safety
Division of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in
Medicine and he is both the current President of the
Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Surgeons and a
Governor of the American College of Surgeons.
Patrick Sweeney, MD, PhD, MPH, FACOG
Dr. Sweeney is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at
the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence,
RI. From 1991 to 2010 he served as the medical school's
Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education. He is the
Designated Institutional Official and the Director of Medical
Education at Women & Infant's Hospital in Providence. In
addition to chairing his hospital's CME committee, Dr.
Sweeney chairs the Rhode Island Medical Society's CME Committee
which accredits thirteen in-state CME providers. He has been
an ACCME surveyor for nineteen years, and has served two terms on
the ACCME's Accreditation Review Committee. He is
currently a member of the ACCME's Committee for Review and
Recognition (CRR).
Dr. Sweeney is a member of the Alliance for CME and served two
terms as a member of the organization's Board of Directors.
He has been a member of the professional education committees of
several specialty societies and medical education
companies.
