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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 ).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Christine K. Cassel, MD )〕 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: *Medicare Matters: What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American health Care (2005) *Ethical Patient Care (2000), Geriatric Medicine (Fourth Edition) *A Practical Guide to Aging (1997), Approaching Death (1997) *Encyclopedia of Bioethics (1995), Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions (1993) *Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear War: A Sourcebook for Health Professionals (1984) She has edited and authored a number of books, including: *Medicare Matters: What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care (2005) *Ethical Patient Care (2000) *Geriatric Medicine (Fourth Edition), A Practical Guide to Aging (1997) *Approaching Death (1997) *Encyclopedia of Bioethics (1995) *Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions (1993) *Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear War: A Sourcebook for Health Professionals (1984) Recent articles include: *Berenson RA, Cassel CK. (Consumer-Driven Health Care May Not Be What Patients Need Caveat Emptor. ).〔JAMA. 2009; 301(3):321-323〕 *Cassel CK. Statistics and Ethics: Models for strengthening protection of human subjects in clinical research.〔PNAS December 29, 2009: 106:52:22037〕 *Jain SH, Cassel CK. (Societal Perceptions of Physicians: Knights, Knaves or Pawns? ) 〔JAMA. 2010;304(9):1009-1010.〕 *Cassel, CK, Reuben, DB. Specialization, subspecialization and sub-subspecialization in internal medicine.〔NEJM 2011; 364;12:1169-1173〕 *Cassel CK, Guest J. (Choosing wisely: helping physicians and patients make smart decisions about their care. ) 〔JAMA;2-12;307(17):1801-1802.〕 *Cassel CK. (Retail clinics and Drugstore Medicine. ) 〔JAMA 2012;307(20):2151-2152〕 *Cassel CK, Jain SH. (Assessing Individual Physician Performance-Does Measurement Suppress Motivation? ) 〔JAMA 2012;307(24):2595-2596.〕 *Cassel CK, Hood V, Bauer W. A Physician Charter: The Tenth Anniversary. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2012;157(4):290-291 *Conway PH, Cassel CK. Engaging Physicians and Leveraging Professionalism-A key to Success for Quality Management and Improvement.〔JAMA 2012;308(10):979-980.〕 *Graber ML, Wachter RM, Cassel CK. Bringing Diagnosis Into the Quality and Safety Equations.〔JAMA 2012;308(12):1211-1212〕 *Kesselheim JC, Cassel CK. Service: An Essential Component of Graduate Medical Education.〔N Engl J Med 2013;368(6)500-501〕 *Tilburt JC, Cassel CK. Why the Ethics of Parsimonious Medicine Is Not the Ethics of Rationing.〔JAMA 2013;309(8)773-774〕 *Agrawal S, Taitsman J, Cassel C. Educating Physicians About Responsible Management of Finite Resources.〔JAMA 2013;309(11):1115-1116〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christine K. Cassel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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