Eric C. Schneider

Biography

Eric Schneider holds the Distinguished Chair in Health Care Quality at the RAND Corporation and serves as director of RAND's Boston office. He is a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an associate professor in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he practices general internal medicine; at Harvard Medical School; and in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. His research addresses the quality of health care with a primary focus on the specification, use, and impact of performance measurement and reporting in health care. He has published research on the development and evaluation of performance measures; the influence of organizational characteristics such as the use of health information technology on the quality of care; and racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health care quality. He has been principal investigator on projects supported by the Commonwealth Fund evaluating the quality improvement capabilities of physician groups that have achieved high clinical performance and the use of a statewide report on patient experience by physician groups and health plans. He is a coinvestigator evaluating demonstration projects on implementation of the patient-centered medical home in four states, chairs the Performance Measurement Technical Advisory Committee of the American College of Physicians, and cochairs the Committee for Performance Measurement of the National Committee for Quality Assurance. He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal for Quality in Health Care. Schneider received his M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco.