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John Peabody, MD, PhD, FACP

Co-Founder and President, Peabody Health Pilanthropies

Dr Peabody is an internationally known leader in clinical practice measurement and sustainable clinical practice improvement. He has authored more than 200 peer reviewed publications and several books on quality, measurement, health economics, and healthcare policy. He has been a successful National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded researcher, served on National Academy of Medicine panels, presented to the US Congress, served World Health Organization panels, been an expert for the World Bank, and served as a senior executive in pharma and Chief Medical Officer. In 2012 he founded QURE, LLC. QURE uses CPV® patient simulations - developed in nearly two decades of John’s academic research - to engage practicing physicians. QURE and CPVs have now become the global standard for serially measuring and reducing clinical practice variation.

Dr Peabody is an active faculty member at the University California, San Francisco, the Institute for Global Health Sciences at UCSF and has a rare joint appointment at UCLA in the School of Public Health. He is graduate of Stanford University and UCSF Medical School, a Diplomate of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and holds a master’s and a PhD from the RAND Pardee Graduate School. Dr Peabody is board-certified in internal medicine.