Susannah Bernheim, M.D., M.H.S., is the Chief Quality Officer and Acting Chief Medical Officer at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center (CMMI). She provides strategic leadership on quality measurement for innovative health care payment and service delivery models at the CMS Innovation Center as well as direction on evaluation of the models’ impact.
She is an Associate Professor at Yale University School of Medicine in General Internal Medicine. Her research focuses on health care quality, new payment policies, and health care disparities. Previously she was Senior Director of Quality Measurement at the Yale-New Haven Hospital Centers for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), where she led work to develop the next generation of performance measures across multiple care settings.
She completed her undergraduate degrees at Yale University and her medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). After postgraduate training in Family Medicine at UCSF, Dr. Bernheim was a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program at Yale University, earning a Master’s degree in Health Sciences Research and completing an additional year of research training in the Section of Geriatrics as a fellow in Geriatric Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Related Research.