In this role, Dr. Baker, an internal medicine physician, will oversee the departments of quality measurement, health services research and standards and survey methods. Those departments develop the Joint Commission’s healthcare quality evaluation tools. He will also oversee the development and implementation of performance measures used in accreditation and certification programs, among other duties.
Dr. Baker has years of experience, serving as the chief of the division of general internal medicine and geriatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine since 2002. He also was deputy director of its Institute for Public Health and Medicine.
Additionally, he chairs the American College of Physician’s Performance Measurement Committee and is a representative to the Measures Application Partnership Coordinating Committee.
