Shari M. Erickson

American College of Physicians ([email protected])

Shari M. Erickson currently serves as senior associate, Center for Practice Improvement and Innovation, with the American College of Physicians (ACP).  ACP is a national organization of 129,000 internists—physicians who specialize in the prevention, detection, and treatment of illnesses in adults.  Erickson’s primary area of focus at ACP is facilitating the development and implementation of patient-centered medical home pilot and demonstration projects.  She also assists in the development of major policy papers; advocacy positions; and new products, programs, and services to support ACP members.

Previously, Erickson was a senior program director with the National Quality Forum (NQF) in Washington, D.C. where she was responsible for managing an array of projects that support NQF’s national strategy for health care quality measurement and reporting.  Prior to that, she served as senior program analyst at the National Committee for Quality Health Care and as a program officer at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies where she worked on multiple health care quality and patient safety studies and co-directed a study on the future of emergency care in the U.S. health care system.  Erickson earned her master of public health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and bachelor’s degrees from Miami University in Ohio.