Dr. Kevin B. Weiss is President and CEO of the American Board of Medical Specialties.

For more than 20 years, Dr. Weiss has devoted his medical career to quality and access issues in primary care, with a specific emphasis on asthma. Dr. Weiss helped found the Chicago Patient Safety Forum and served as its first chairperson.  He developed the Masters in Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality at Northwestern University.  He currently serves on the National Committee for Quality Assurance Clinical Performance Measures Committee, the Executive Committee of the American Medical Association's  Physicians Consortium for Performance Improvement, the National Quality Forum’s Consensus Standards Approval Committee, is a member of the AQA Steering Committee and chairs the AQA Performance Measures Committee. Dr. Weiss is a American College of Physicians Board of Regents member and has served on Institute of Medicine Committees which developed the reports, “Crossing the Quality Chasm,” and “Identifying Priority Areas for Quality Improvement.”

Dr. Weiss also holds an appointment as Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of General Medicine and in the Institute for Healthcare Studies in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.