ACGME
Dr. Arrighi is the President and Chief Executive Officer of ACGME-International. He completed his Bachelor of Science and Medical Doctor degrees at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He then completed graduate medical education (GME) in internal medicine, cardiology, and nuclear medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, the National Institutes of Health, and Yale University School of Medicine.
Dr. Arrighi’s career has focused on improving GME and mentoring physicians in training. Upon completion of his own education and training, he joined the cardiology faculty at Yale and served as program director for the cardiology fellowship. In addition to his clinician-educator responsibilities, he was actively engaged in nuclear cardiology and cardiac imaging research and directed the nuclear medicine service at the West Haven VA Hospital. In 2004, he moved to his alma mater and joined the cardiology faculty at Rhode Island Hospital and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. There, he initially served as program director in cardiology, and subsequently served as Director of Graduate Medical Education and designated institutional official for the Lifespan healthcare system. He achieved the rank of Professor of Medicine, Diagnostic Imaging, and Medical Science at Brown, and received several faculty awards for exemplary teaching. For over two decades, he has mentored residents and fellows; he has published over 70 peer-reviewed publications and has delivered over 130 national or international invited lectures.
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ACGME
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) is a private, non-profit, professional organization responsible for the accreditation of approximately 12,000 residency and fellowship programs and the approximately 865 institutions that sponsor these programs in the United States. Residency and fellowship programs educate approximately 145,000 resident and fellow physicians in 157 specialties and subspecialties. The ACGME’s mission is to improve health care and population health by assessing and enhancing the quality of resident and fellow physicians’ education through accreditation and education.