Chief Communications and Public Policy Officer
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Dr. Combes is the Chief Communications and Public Policy Officer for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and previously was the ACGME’s Senior Vice President, Public Policy and External Relations as well as 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 enhancing the value of board certification as a strategic resource for hospitals and health systems.
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.
Dr. Combes is chair of the Board of Salem Health Hospitals and Clinics, an integrated health care delivery system in Oregon, past 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.
Monday, July 24, 2023
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Panel Discussion - Food as Medicine
Monday, July 24, 2023
10:35 AM – 11:20 AM ET
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.