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William Kassler, MD, MPH, currently serves as Chief Medical Officer for the New England Region of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), where his major focus is to implement value-based purchasing initiatives to improve health care quality. Dr. Kassler also works with the Preventive and Population Health Care Models Group at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Prior to his current position, Dr. Kassler served as State Health Officer and Medical Director for the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services. His responsibilities included both public health and Medicaid, and his priorities were strengthening the system of community safety net providers, and integrating population-based public health strategies and preventive services into clinical care through programmatic collaboration between public health and Medicaid. He also worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an EIS Officer, a medical epidemiologist in HIV prevention, he directed a health services research and evaluation unit, and later served as Senior Advisor for health policy in the CDC/Washington Office. Dr. Kassler received his MD from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, completed a primary care internal medicine residency at the Rhode Island Hospital, and is board certified in internal medicine. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar in health services research at the University of California, San Francisco. He received an MS in nutrition from CaseWestern Reserve University, and an MPH from Berkeley. Dr. Kassler has been recognized with numerous awards from the United States Public Health Service, including the Surgeon General’s Meritorious Service Award. He is a recipient of the NH March of Dimes Physician Leadership Award, and the Bi-State Primary Care Association President’s Award for “unyielding dedication to community-based access to care for the poor and disadvantaged.” Dr. Kassler is a practicing internist at a Federally Qualified Health Center and past president of the New Hampshire Medical Society.