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 Dr. John Tooker is the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the American College of Physicians (ACP). ACP is the largest medical specialty society in the U.S., representing 124,000 specialists in internal medicine (internists), internal medicine subspecialists, and medical students.
ACP’s mission is to enhance the quality and effectiveness of health care by fostering excellence and professionalism in the practice of medicine. Reinforced by the strength of its membership and guided by a strong policy portfolio, ACP is leading efforts to unify the internal medicine community, develop new models of patient care and delivery, and implement fundamental and comprehensive reforms to repair a dysfunctional payment system to make internal medicine more attractive as a career choice.
Dr. Tooker serves on the boards of the National Quality Forum, eHealth Initiative, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (Chair-Elect, 2008), the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, the Electronic Health Record Patient Safety Advisory Board, and the Council of Medical Specialty Societies. He also represents ACP as a founding member of the AQA, formerly the Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance and serves on the Connecting for Health steering committee.
Prior to joining ACP in 1995 as Deputy EVP and Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Tooker was Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine and Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency at the Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine, where he practiced internal medicine and pulmonary and critical care medicine.
Dr. Tooker earned his M.D. at University of Colorado School of Medicine, his native state, completed his internal medicine residency at the Bellevue Hospital Center in New York and the University of Colorado, and his pulmonary and critical care fellowship at the Maine Medical Center and the University of Washington. He is a graduate of the Fox School of Business at Temple University, and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
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