Anthony Shih, M.D., M.P.H., rejoined The Commonwealth Fund in January 2011 as Executive Vice President for Programs. In this role, Dr. Shih serves as a member of the Fund's Executive Management Team and is responsible for all of The Commonwealth Fund's grants programs, which are organized into four clusters: Delivery System Innovation and Improvement; Health Reform Policy; Health System Performance Assessment and Tracking; and International Health Policy and Innovation. From 2006 to 2008, Dr. Shih directed the Fund's Program on Quality improvement and Efficiency. He left The Commonwealth Fund in 2008 to serve as Chief Quality Officer and Vice President of Strategy for IPRO, one of the nation's leading independent, not-for-profit, health care quality improvement organizations. In addition to guiding the overall growth and strategy of IPRO, Dr. Shih led IPRO’s Health Care Transparency Group, a leader in public reporting of health care performance information. Dr. Shih first joined IPRO in 2001, and held a variety of executive management positions there, including Vice President of the Health Care Quality Improvement Program, and Medical Director of Managed Care. Earlier in his career, he was Assistant Medical Director for a community-based mental health organization serving immigrant and refugee populations in Oakland, California. Dr. Shih is board-certified in public health and preventive medicine, and holds a B.A. in economics from Amherst College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa; an M.D. from the New York University School of Medicine, where he graduated Alpha Omega Alpha; and an M.P.H. from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.