Amir Qaseem

Amir Qaseem

Dr. Qaseem is trained as a physician, health economist, methodologist, clinical epidemiologist, business administrator, and a leader. He is responsible for leading the American College of Physicians' evidence-based medicine and clinical practice guidelines program. Dr. Qaseem also leads ACP's quality indicators, performance measures, and population health programs. He directs ACP’s high value care initiative and scientific medical policy evaluating and publishing the benefits, harms, and costs of various overused, misused, and underused diagnostic tests and therapeutic interventions. Dr. Qaseem’s work includes development and implementation of ACP’s quality improvement and educational programs. He is also involved in clinical care and research addressing priority populations, elderly, women, multiple chronic conditions, end of life care, genetics, and determinants of health.  

Dr. Qaseem has published extensively in peer reviewed journals, of which over a hundred papers have been published in the top 5 medical journals in the world on topics such as clinical guidelines, implementation of clinical guidelines, pandemic crisis, quality improvement, performance measures and measurement, population health, and health policy related issues. He has been invited to speak as a keynote speaker and has presented at several national and international conferences on issues related to health policy, evidence-based medicine, population and public health, guideline development, guideline and evidence grading, performance measurement, and quality of care.