Kevin B. Weiss, MD, MPH
President and CEO
American Board of Medical Specialties

Dr. Kevin B. Weiss is President and CEO of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). Dr. Weiss also is a professor of clinical medicine and holds appointments in the Division of General Medicine and in the Institute for Healthcare Studies in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Most recently, Dr. Weiss was the director of the Institute for Healthcare Studies at Northwestern University; and was also the director of the Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care at Hines and Chicago Veterans Administration Medical Centers.

He began his academic career as Assistant Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine while also serving as a special assistant to Program Director for the Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH.  From there he served as Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Rush Medical College and Director of the Center for Health Services Research at the Rush Primary Care Institute, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago.  Dr. Weiss received his MD from the University of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School, clinical training in Internal Medicine at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, an MPH from the University of Illinois School of Public Health and a Master’s in Health Services Administration from Harvard University School of Public Health.  He did his post-doctoral training fellowship at the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He was also a Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar.

For more than 20 years, Dr. Weiss has devoted his medical career to quality and access issues in primary care, conducting epidemiological and health services research projects related to guideline implementation, chronic care management, outcomes measurement and quality improvement, with a specific emphasis on asthma. Recognizing the importance of patient safety and quality of care in his community, Dr. Weiss helped found the Chicago Patient Safety Forum and served as its first chairperson.  He also developed the Masters in Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality at Northwestern University.  He currently serves on the Clinical Performance Measures Committee of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and represents the American College of Physicians (ACP) at the National Quality Forum (NQF) and the American Medical Association's (AMA) Physicians Consortium for Performance Improvement. He also serves on NQF's Consensus Standards Approval Committee, and chairs the Performance Measures Committee of the AQA Alliance. Dr. Weiss also is a Board of Regents member of the ACP.  He has served on Institute of Medicine Committees which developed the reports, “Crossing the Quality Chasm,” and “Identifying Priority Areas for Quality."