ACGME
Dr. Combes is Chief Communications and Public Policy Officer and previously was an ACGME Visiting Scholar, studying GME and institutional integration, physician well-being, and the health care governance of the clinical learning environment.
Prior to joining the ACGME, Dr. Combes served as a Senior Advisor with the Southport Group, a firm specializing in health care leadership, governance, trustee and physician lifelong development, and strategic planning. In that role, he worked with the American Board of Medical Specialties on health care policy issues and enhanced the value of board certification as a strategic resource for hospitals and health systems.
Dr. Combes is a member of the Board of Salem Health, an integrated health care delivery system in Oregon, as well as a Director of Quality Insights, a multi-state quality improvement organization. He writes and speaks frequently on governance, physician issues, and quality, and lectures nationally and internationally on health care leadership.
Dr. Combes is the retired chief medical officer and senior vice president of the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the former president of the Center for Healthcare Governance, an AHA affiliate organization.
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.