Sheldon Greenfield, M.D.
Donald Bren Professor of Medicine and Executive Co-Director
Health Policy Research Institute at the Univeristy of California, Irvine

Sheldon Greenfield, MD, an internationally recognized leader in quality of care and health services research, is the Donald Bren Professor of Medicine and Executive Co-Director of the Health Policy Research Institute at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Greenfield’s research has focused on primary care outcomes, quality of chronic disease care, comparative effectiveness research and patient participation in care. He was the 1995 recipient of the PEW Health Professions Award for lifetime achievement in Primary Care Research.

Dr. Greenfield is a recipient of the Glaser Award of the Society of General Internal Medicine and the 1999 Novartis Global Outcomes Leadership Award. Dr Greenfield was elected to the IOM in 1996. He was Chair of the IOM report Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition and was also the Chair of the National Diabetes Quality Improvement Alliance. He was Co-Chair of the IOM Committee on setting National Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research. He was also Chair of a 2011 IOM Committee to standardize Clinical Practice Guidelines. He is current chair of the National Quality Forum Advisory Panel for Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease, and a member of the NQF Outcomes Steering Committee. He is also Co-Senior Editor of the new international Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research.