John Combes, MD, Board Chair
Dr. John Combes is the Chief Communications and Public Policy Officer for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Dr. Combes is responsible for leading all external and internal communications, social media, and public and media relations as well as policy development and regulatory and legislative relationships. In this role, he serves as a member of the ACGME Executive Leadership Team. 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 affiliated organization. Before officially joining the ACGME, Dr. Combes was working at the ACGME as a Visiting Scholar where he studied graduate medical education (GME) and institutional integration, physician well-being and the health care governance of the clinical learning environment. Dr. Combes is a director of Quality Insights, a multi-state Quality Improvement Organization. He has served in senior leadership positions in multiple heath care systems in New York and Florida. He writes and speaks frequently on governance, physician issues and quality, and lectures nationally and internationally on health care leadership.
Dr. Combes received his medical degree from Cornell University in New York and received his post-graduate training from Boston City Hospital. He is certified in Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine and has Management Certification from the American College of Physician Executives. His specialty areas of expertise include: Medical Quality, Healthcare Governance, Physician Leadership, Clinical Integration, Patient Safety, and Palliative Care.