Jesse Pines

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ABOUT JESSE PINES

I am a board-certified, practicing emergency physician and integrative medicine physician with >25 years of experience in clinical care, research, education, quality measurement, and the business of medicine. I am the recipient of the 2023 Colin Rorrie Jr. Health Policy Award from the American College of Emergency Physicians. I am a full Professor of Emergency Medicine at Drexel University and a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University- I serve as the Chief of Clinical Innovation at US Acute Care Solutions, a company serving 500 sites across 30 U.S. states, with more than 10 million yearly visits. I develop and implement delivery and payment models to improve emergency, hospital, and critical care. This includes leading the development and implementation of the first-ever government alternative payment model (ED EQIP in Maryland) for emergency physicians to reduce total cost of care. Additionally, I have developed successful alternative payment models with private payers for reducing variation in admissions and imaging through clinical protocols. I also lead the development and implementation of telemedicine programs at USACS with models in tele-urgent care, tele-psychiatry, tele-emergency care, tele-hospitalist, tele-EMS, tele-observation, and tele-ICU. I lead clinical artificial-intelligence related efforts within the organization. I am also the Fellowship Director for the Clinical Innovation fellowship at USACS which is a one-year program for emergency and hospitalist physicians. The fellowship is in its 4th year as of 2024-5- I spent 8.5 years at GW in progressive leadership positions at GW, prior to that served on the faculty at Penn in emergency medicine and epidemiology for 5.5 years- I conduct research studies to understand and improve quality of acute unscheduled care. I am an author of > 370 peer-reviewed papers in the literature and eight books- I am an expert in physician leadership, designing research studies for large administrative databases, hospital-based databases, payment reform, and using big data to understand value- I provide independent research, expert witness, business consulting, and medical adviser to start-ups- I am a contributor to Forbes, TIME, ACEP Now, Medscape, and MedPage Today. I previously contributed to Slate, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy Magazine, Dallas Morning News, and Emergency Physicians\' Monthly.