ACGME CEO and leadership

Bruce A Metz is a Chief Information Officer at ACGME.

Dr. Holmboe is the Chief Research, Milestone Development, and Evaluation Officer, Milestones Department. He is also Professor Adjunct of Medicine at Yale University, Adjunct Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and Adjunct Professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

He served as the Associate Program Director, Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program, and as the Director of Student Clinical Assessment, Yale School of Medicine. Before joining Yale in 2000, he served as Division Chief of General Internal Medicine at the National Naval Medical Center. He also previously served as a medical student clerkship director and residency training officer at the Portsmouth Naval Medical Center. Dr. Holmboe retired from the US Naval Reserves in 2005.

Lynne M Kirk is a Chief Accreditation Officer at ACGME. She has experience at UT Southwestern Medical Center and has worked as Board Member at ACGME. Lynne attended University of Nebraska Medical Center.

William McDade, M.D., Ph.D. is a Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at ACGME, Member at National Medical Association, and Minority Affairs Section (Consortium) at American Medical Association and is based in Chicago, Illinois. He has worked as Member, Board of Trustees at American Medical Association; Deputy Provost for Research and Minority Issues at University of Chicago; and Council on Medical Education, Immediate Past-Chairman at American Medical Association. William studied at Harvard Medical School between 1991 and 1994, DePaul University between 1976 and 1980, and Revivio between 1980 and 1990.

Mr. Ogunkeye joined the ACGME in August 2013 and is the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Operations, and as Executive Vice President, ACGME Global Services. For nearly three decades, Mr. Ogunkeye held a variety of management positions within academic medical centers. He started his career in 1985 as a division administrator at the University of Texas Health Sciences in Houston. Since then, he assumed expanding scope and responsibilities, culminating in a position at Johns Hopkins Medicine, where he served as Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer for the Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians. He also served as the Associate Dean and Executive Director for the Clinical Practice Association and Clinical Research Operations & Finance for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Prior to joining Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Ogunkeye served as the Chief Operating Officer of Jefferson Medical College, and as the Executive Director/Vice President for Jefferson University Physicians (JUP), a large, multi-specialty physician group practice based in Philadelphia. Before JUP, Mr. Ogunkeye was the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Morehouse Medical Associates in Atlanta, Georgia.

Mr. Ogunkeye has broad management experience with medical school departments, having served as a department administrator at a number of medical schools. He was an administrator in surgery departments at West Virginia University, the University of Colorado, and at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Combes is Chief Communications and Public Policy Officer and previously was an ACGME Visiting Scholar, studying GME and institutional integration, physician well-being, and the health care governance of the clinical learning environment.

Prior to joining the ACGME, Dr. Combes served as a Senior Advisor with the Southport Group, a firm specializing in health care leadership, governance, trustee and physician lifelong development, and strategic planning. In that role, he worked with the American Board of Medical Specialties on health care policy issues and enhanced the value of board certification as a strategic resource for hospitals and health systems.

Dr. Combes is a member of the Board of Salem Health, an integrated health care delivery system in Oregon, as well as a Director of Quality Insights, a multi-state quality improvement organization. He writes and speaks frequently on governance, physician issues, and quality, and lectures nationally and internationally on health care leadership.

Dr. Combes is the retired chief medical officer and senior vice president of the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the former president of the Center for Healthcare Governance, an AHA affiliate organization.

Dr. Weiss is the Senior Vice President, Institutional Accreditation, and is responsible for the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Program, co-chairs the CLER Evaluation Committee, and has oversight of the ACGME Institutional Review process.

Dr. Weiss came to the ACGME from the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), where from 2007 to 2012 he served as president and CEO. During his tenure at the ABMS, he initiated the Enhanced Public Trust Initiative, which broadened public membership and involvement in governance and policy development; developed and implemented the new Ethics and Professionalism Committee and a Health and Public Policy Program; and established alignment with both Maintenance of Licensure and public and private programs focused on physician accountability, such as the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Physician Quality Reporting Initiative. Other key initiatives included public reporting of Maintenance of Certification and Board Eligibility. Through Dr. Weiss’ leadership, ABMS-International was established, with its first international collaboration with Singapore.