Career Summary

Following completion of residency training I entered practice in a federally designated “Health Workforce Shortage” area of North Carolina. While in North Carolina I served in a number of regional and national leadership positions. Because of this experience I was recruited to lead a hospital system in Rochester NY. Subsequently I was asked to provide medical leadership in increasingly complex organizations. In 2002 I returned to Connecticut and to full time private practice.

Education and Postdoctoral Training

• M.D., University of Pittsburgh
• University Health Center of Pittsburgh, internship and residency in Internal Medicine
• B.S., Purdue University

Medical Credentials

• Certified in Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine
• Certified in Geriatrics by the American Board of Internal Medicine
• Fellow of the American College of Physicians

Continuing Education

• AMA Physicians Recognition Award 2009 and every three years since completion of formal education (requires >150 hours of continuing education)
• More than 500 contact hours of management education from Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and at Harvard University

Teaching, Writing and Research

• University Of Connecticut, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
• Hofstra University, Adjunct Associate Professor
• Physicians Evaluating Health Plans (PHEP) Study, Advisory Committee
• Harvard University, Resource Based Relative Value Scale Study (RBRVS), Technical Advisor
• The Internist, Health Policy in Practice, Contributing Editor
• Today’s Internist, Contributing Editor
• Effective Medical Management Self Assessment Program (EMMSAP), Editor
• ADHERE Study of Hypertension and Diabetes, Principle Investigator
• American College of Physicians, Education Committee
• American College of Physicians, Clinical Efficacy Assessment Project
• American College of Physicians, Performance Measures Subcommittee
• Internal Medicine Center to Advance Research and Education (IMCARE), Board of Directors
• American Academy of Homecare, Chairman of the Taskforce on the Efficacy of Home Care

Recent Publications

• Diabetes Guidelines, Article in the Annals of Internal Medicine
• Preventing Complications of Surgery, Article in the Annals of Internal Medicine
• Care of Chronic Wounds, Book Chapter (#18)
• Performance Based Payment for Physicians, Book (out of print)
• Current Diagnosis of Venous Thromboembolism in Primary Care, Article in the Annals of Family Medicine
• Management of Venous Thromboembolism Article in the Annals of Internal Medicine

Recent Presentations At National Medical Meetings

• Physicians’ Consortium for Performance Improvement, Board of Directors. March 2009.  Invited Presentation: “Quality Improvement in a Clinical Microsystem”
• American College of Physicians Annual Session May 2008. Course Director “Implementing and Using a Disease Registry”. Computer Laboratory Session
• American College of Physicians Annual Session May 2008. Pre-Session Faculty for “Focus on the Practice: Challenges, Choices and Change”
• American College of Physicians Annual Session May 2008. Faculty for session “The Survivor’s Guide to Performance Measurement and Pay For Performance”.
• American College of Physicians Annual Session April 2006. Workshop on Pay for Perfomance Initiatives.
• American College of Physicians Annual Session April 2006. Meet the Professor Session on Patient Registry Programs

Leadership Experience

• American Society of Internal Medicine, Trustee
• American Medical Association, Delegate
• Gentiva Health Services, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
• North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Vice President and Medical Director
• Aetna Professional Management Corporation, Chief Medical Officer
• Park Ridge Health System, Chief of Medicine
• North Carolina Society of Internal Medicine, President
• Commission on Office Laboratory Accreditation (COLA) Member and Chair, Board of Directors

Community Service

• Visiting Nurses of the Lower Valley, Chair, Professional Advisory Board
• Standing Rock Indian Health Service Hospital, Fort Yates, North Dakota, volunteer physician
• Dolan Family Health Center, Huntington New York, volunteer physician
• North Carolina Cervical Cancer Task Force, member
• Program for the Medically Indigent, Craven County (NC) Medical Society, Chairman

Professional Societies

• American Medical Association
• American College of Physicians
• American Geriatrics Society
• American Academy of Home Care Physicians
• Connecticut State Medical Society
• Middlesex County Medical Society
• American College of Physician Executives

Honors and Awards

• Fellow of the American College of Physicians
• American Society of Internal Medicine, Young Internist of the Year 1990
• Alpha Omega Alpha, Honor Medical Society

Personal

• Married to Deborah Bradford Hornbake
• Three adult children
• Residence in Hadlyme, Connecticut
• Hobbies include gardening, hiking, woodworking and cooking