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American Board of Internal Medicine Appoints Ann C. Greiner as Vice President of Policy

Philadelphia, PA, July 24, 2006 – Ann C. Greiner has been appointed Vice President of Policy for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), effective September 1. In this newly created position, she will work to further the mission of quality and professionalism by strengthening relationships held by ABIM and the ABIM Foundation with health policy makers.

"Ann's extensive experience in the health care quality and policy arenas fits perfectly with our goal to advance the quality and professionalism of health care," said Christine Cassel, MD, President and CEO of ABIM. "Her efforts will help engage health leaders in further dialogue on how to incorporate physicians' efforts in quality improvement into the national health agenda and mainstream health care practice."

Presently, Ms. Greiner is President of GreinerHealth Consulting, a private consultancy focused on enhancing health care quality through health care redesign and quality assessment. Previously, she was Deputy Director of the Board on Health Care Services for the Institute of Medicine (IOM), where she was responsible for policy research. Prior to that, she was Director of Public Affairs for the Center for Studying Health System Change, and Assistant Vice President of Communications & Marketing with the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).

"In her new role, Ann will be able to build on the many important contributions she has already made to the national policy agenda on quality," said Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, MBA, President and CEO of the National Quality Forum, who worked closely with Ms. Greiner for eight years at NCQA and IOM.

Ms. Greiner earned her master's degree in city planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree in English from Hobart & William Smith Colleges. She resides in Silver Spring, Md.

About ABIM
The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) is an independent, not-for-profit organization that grants board certification—a well accepted marker of physician quality—to internists and subspecialists. Certification is a rigorous, comprehensive program for evaluating physician knowledge, skills and attitudes to assure both patients and payers that a physician has achieved competence for practice in a given field. Individual physician certification results may be found at www.abim.org.