Louis Diamond, MBChB, FCP, (SA), FACP, FHIMSS

He currently serves as the following: Pres, Kidney Transplant Collaborative, Member, Executive Committee, Coalition for Supportive Care for Kidney Disease Patients; member, Executive Committee, supportive care for patients with kidney disease project; Ex Officio Member, Forum ESRD Networks; Delegate for the Renal Physicians Association to the American Medical Association House of Delegates; Member; Board Member, Quality Insights Holdings ( a QIN/QIO).

He previously held leadership positions at a variety of healthcare organizations including: Chair, ESRD Network 5; Co-chair, Quality Improvement Initiative, Alliance for Continuing Education for Health Care Professionals; Chair, Physician Engagement Committee, HIMSS; Physician Liaison, Public Policy Committee, HIMSS; Chair, Strategic Directions Subcommittee, Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement; Member, National Priorities Partnership; Chair, Policy Steering Committee, eHealth Initiative (eHI); Chair, Quality Safety and Outcomes Committee, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
Also, Chair, Quality, Measurement and Research Council, NQF; President and Medical Director, Renal Physicians Association; member, Board of Directors, and Director of Programs, National Patient Safety Foundation; President, Medical Society of D.C.; Board of Trustees, American Society of Internal Medicine; President, American College of Medical Quality; Member, Joint Steering and Technical Advisory Committee, National Quality Forum; Member, Editorial Board, American Journal of Medical Quality; Member, Health and Public Policy Committee, American College of Physicians ; Chair, eHealth and Medical Informatics Forum, American College of Medical Quality; Chair, Applications and Learning Program, National Patient Safety Foundation; President, Forum of ESRD Network Organizations; President, ESRD Network 5 Board of Directors; President, Internal Medicine Center to Advance Research and Education (IMCARE); Member, National Kidney & Urologic Diseases Advisory Board of the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Diamond served as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow; Vice President and Medical Director, Thomson Reuters Healthcare; Pres. QHCAG, Professor of Medicine, Chair, Georgetown Department of Medicine and Dean for Medical Affairs, at D. C. General Hospital; Research Fellow, Renal Metabolic Unit and Assistant professor of Medicine, Cape Town School of Medicine and Groote Schuur Hospital.

Dr. Diamond is a graduate of the University of Cape Town Medical School, South Africa; Fellow, American College of Physicians; and Fellow, College of Physicians, South Africa.

Multiple publications and recognition awards, recently from RPA and ACMQ.