Pierre Yong

Pierre L Yong, MD, MPH, MS, is the Director of Quality Measurement in the Quality Measurement and Value-Based Incentives Group/Center for Clinical Standards and Quality at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). At CMS, he oversees measure development and analyses for a variety of CMS quality reporting and value-based purchasing programs. Previously, Yong was the Director of Health Care Quality and Outcomes in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he oversaw projects on value based purchasing, quality, comparative effectiveness research, and data infrastructure for patient-centered outcomes research.  Yong also previously worked at the Institute of Medicine, where he focused on a portfolio of projects related to value and costs in health care. As a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, his research focused on quality of care. He received his medical degree from Brown Medical School, his Masters in Public Health from Columbia University, and his Masters in Science in Health Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his Internal Medicine training at New York Presbyterian Hospital, and continues to work as a hospitalist at the District of Columbia Veterans Affairs Medical Center.