Cary Sennett, MD, PhD

Dr. Sennett is Senior Vice President for Strategy and Clinical Analytics at the American Board of Medicine. He joined ABIM in 2004 as SVP for Research and Development, and spent two years as SVP for Strategy and Communications before taking on his current responsibilities in June of 2007. Prior to joining ABIM, he held a series of leadership positions in organizations committed to systematic evaluation and improvement of health care in the United States. He has worked both on the payer side (Aetna, US Healthcare, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, BenefitNation, and Ingenix) and, more recently, on the provider side (the American College of Cardiology and ABIM). His best known contributions were during his tenure as Executive Vice President at NCQA, where he led NCQA's efforts to make HEDIS a more robust and capable measures set, and to integrate HEDIS measures into accreditation.

Dr. Sennett is a board-certified internist. He received his MD from Yale and did his residency training at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. After his clinical training, he completed a Kaiser Foundation Fellowship in Health Policy and Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he received his PhD. He is a frequent speaker and author on issues of quality improvement in health care, and serves on the editorial boards of several journals including Health Affairs. He served as co-chair of the Steering Committee on Hospital Measurement for the National Quality Forum, and currently serves as the Chair of NQF's Technical Advisory Panel on Cardiovascular Ambulatory Care measures.