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Board Members | Presidents of the Board

	Gordon C. Vineyard, M.D., President & Chairman of the Board, 2002 - present Dr. Vineyard has recently retired from the position of Interim CEO of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates after many years of active involvement with that institution, its predecessors, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Vineyard's undergraduate education was at Yale University where he studied Electrical Engineering. He attended Harvard Medical School and had his general surgical training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. In 1972 he joined the faculty practice at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Harvard Community Health Plan. He continued his active involvement with those institutions until his retirement in August, 2000.
	Mitchell T. Rabkin, M.D., President & Chairman of the Board, 1998 - 2002 "The goal of basic uniformity of health information is crucial. Without it, quality, cost, efficacy, appropriateness, risk and outcome cannot be evaluated and managed in meaningful ways." Dr. Rabkin served as CEO of CareGroup from 1996 until 1998, at which time he joined the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Rabkin was President of Beth Israel Hospital from 1966-1996 and is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School as Professor of Medicine. He was chairman of the Association of American Medical Colleges from 1996-1997 and has been a member of the Advisory Council of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Duke University Health System and the New York University School of Medicine Foundation Board of Trustees, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
	Alvin R. Tarlov, M.D., President & Chairman of the Board, 1993-1998 "We are entering an era of consumer-based health care evaluation in which generic and specific health outcomes will, increasingly, be evaluated from the patients point of view." Dr. Tarlov served as Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago, as President of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, and since 1990, as the Executive Director of The Health Institute at New England Medical Center. He holds professorships at Tufts and Harvard. He was Chairman and author of the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee Report. He was the founder, in 1983, of the Medical Outcomes Study and is President of the Medical Outcomes Trust. Dr. Tarlov is the Executive Director of the Texas Institute for Society & Health in Houston, Texas.
	Frederick W. Ackroyd, M.D., President, 1987-1993 "Our social goal of universal access to cost-effective, quality care has generated tremendous information needs. The Consortium's dedication to providing high quality information through member participation will move us closer to that goal." Dr. Ackroyd has served as an Instructor of Surgery at Boston City Hospital, Chairman of the Departments of Surgery at Mount Auburn Hospital and later at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. He has served on the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons. At the Massachusetts General Hospital, he practiced at the Surgical Unit of the Ambulatory Care Center, the Trauma/Burn Service and the Surgical Endoscopy Unit.
	Francis D. Moore, M.D., President, 1981-1987 "In providing our information services to hospitals, physicians, legislators, and scholars, we are doing our work in helping patients. The system that is efficient, and financially healthy is one that serves the patient best." Dr. Moore served at Massachusetts General Hospital and in 1948 was named Surgeon-in-Chief at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. During his tenure, the Dept. of Surgery performed the first kidney transplantation, early work in cardiac surgery and the modem treatment of breast cancer. At the Bicentennial of the Harvard Medical School, Dr. Moore received an Honorary Doctorate of Science.
	Paul M. Densen, D.Sc., President, 1978-1981 "The Consortium is a rare partnership of the private and public sectors. As the provider organizations have proliferated and as people strive to understand an increasingly complex health care system, the need for the Consortium to provide objective data is greater than ever." Dr. Densen has held leadership positions at Vanderbilt University, the Veteran's Administration, the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York and the New York City Health Department. For almost 20 years he directed the Harvard Center for Community Health and Medical Care and advised the U.S. National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. Dr. Densen is the recipient of the Distinguished Investigator Award of the Association for Health Services Research.