Jesse M. Pines, MD, MBA, MSCE Director of Health Care Quality at George Washington University Medical Center

Jesse M. Pines, MD, MBA, MSCE is the Director of Health Care Quality and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy at the George Washington University Medical Center. Dr. Pines holds a B.A. and a Master’s of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.D. and Masters of Business Administration at Georgetown University. Dr. Pines completed emergency medicine residency at University of Virginia and a research fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. His primary research interests are ED throughput, quality, and best practices in emergency care along with ED-based diagnostic testing. He has received the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Young Investigator Award (2009) and several competitive foundation, federal, and industry grants from the Agency for Health Research and Quality, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Department of Homeland Security, American Geriatrics Society, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, American College of Emergency Physicians, Emergency Medicine Foundation, Institute on Aging at Penn, Thomas McCabe Fund, University Research Foundation, and Abbott Point-of-Care. He is author or more than 120 peer-reviewed publications, hundreds of abstracts, and two books. He is a regular contributor to Time magazine and Slate.com, and has contributed columns to the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy magazine, and Emergency Physicians Monthly.