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Dr. Krumholz is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University School of Medicine. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and an SM in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. He did his training in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and in cardiology at Beth Israel in Boston. He serves as Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale and Director of the Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE).
Dr. Krumholz’s research uses the methods of clinical epidemiology and health services research to generate knowledge that will improve clinical practice and the ability of the health care system to provide high-quality, high-value care to all those who need it. He has authored more than 250 articles that focus on improving the care and outcomes of individuals with, or at risk for, cardiovascular disease.
At the national level, Dr. Krumholz is Clinical Coordinator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) National Project for Heart Care (including heart failure and AMI). He is also Clinical Coordinator for the CMS Hospital Core Performance Measurement Project. He is a member of many committees that have focused on quality of care issues including the following, which he chairs: ACC/AHA Joint Committee on Performance Measures for the Care of Patients with AMI; AHA/ACC Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke; and the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) Committee on Cardiovascular Performance Measures. Dr. Krumholz is a member of the ACC/AHA Task Force on Performance Measures and the ACC/AHA Writing Committee for Guidelines for Patients with ST-Segment Elevation AMI.
Dr. Krumholz is an Associate Editor of Circulation, editor of Journal Watch Cardiology, and serves on numerous editorial boards, and is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.
