Peter B. Bach, M.D., MAPP
Associate Attending Physician Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Dr. Bach is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine, and is an Associate Attending Physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He is an NIH funded researcher with expertise in quality of care and epidemiologic research methods. His research on health disparities, variations in healthcare quality, and lung cancer epidemiology has appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Bach served as a senior adviser to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from February 2005 through November 2006 Dr. Bach’s work at CMS focuses on improving evidence about the effect of therapies and devices, and revising payment to enhance care quality. He was the agency lead on cancer policy. During the Rwandan Civil War, he was a camp physician in Goma, Zaire, caring for refugees.

Dr. Bach received his bachelor’s degree in English and American Literature from Harvard College, his MD from the University of Minnesota, and his Master of Arts degree in Public Policy from the University of Chicago, where he was also a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. He completed his clinical training in internal medicine, pulmonary and critical care at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.