Gregg S. Meyer, MD, MSc, was named the first Senior Vice President for the Edward P. Lawrence Center for Quality and Safety at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization in December 2006.  A national leader in the area of quality and safety, Dr. Meyer led the multifaceted efforts of the MGH/MGPO in quality and safety for a number of years. Currently Dr. Meyer is Chief Clinical Officer and Executive Vice President for Population Health at Darmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors, and formerly was Chair of the Board of Governors, at the National Patient Safety Foundation.

Dr. Meyer was previously the Director of the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), where he was responsible for conducting and supporting research on the measurement, improvement, and reporting of health care quality including clinical performance measurement, patient safety issues, and consumer surveys. He took the lead position in articulating the Department of Health and Human Service’s quality and safety agenda, and coordinating activity with other federal and non-governmental entities.  He has served on numerous key committees related to quality and safety including the Joint Commission’s Board of Commissioners, National Committee for Quality Assurance’s Committee on Performance Measurement, the World Health Organization’s Scientific Peer Review Group on Health Systems Performance Assessment, Institute of Medicine panels, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Payment Reform Advisory Committee and NASA’s Medical Policy Board.

Before his tenure at AHRQ, Dr. Meyer was an Associate Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) where he served as Division Director for General Medicine, coordinated the design and analysis of the Department of Defense’s National Quality Management Project, and developed curricula for senior military medical leaders in quality improvement.  While at USUHS, Dr. Meyer was an active duty Medical Corps officer and Colonel in the United States Air Force.

Dr. Meyer is a Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude graduate of Union College and magna cum laude graduate of Albany Medical College.  He earned a master’s degree at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In addition, he holds a master’s degree from the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Meyer also served as a fellow in the US Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee’s health office.  He has authored more than 100 articles, editorials, chapters, and monographs and is board certified in internal medicine.