Interview with a Quality Leader: Bernard Rosof on the State of Medical Quality

Abstract

Bernard Rosof, MD MACP, is senior vice president for corporate relations and health affairs at the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System and clinical professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine. Before assuming a full-time hospital position, Rosof was in the private practice of internal medicine and gastroenterology for 29 years. He has chaired committees and task forces in New York and for the Institute of Medicine, National Quality Forum, the American Medical Association (AMA), and various specialty societies. He has achieved national recognition for his contributions in the areas of healthcare quality and clinical practice guidelines and is the current chair of the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement convened by the AMA. He is a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Medical Quality and chair of the committee on quality assurance in office based-surgery for the Commissioner of Health of New York State. Rosof is a former member of the board of directors of the National Alliance of Autism Research and was instrumental in the development of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System's Center for Autism. He is a master of the American College of Physicians and chair emeritus and president emeritus of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians.