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Dr. Baron practices general internal medicine at Greenhouse Internists, P.C. The Philadelphia practice serves an economically and racially diverse community and provides over 16,000 ambulatory encounters per year. Additionally, he is the founder and CEO of Philadelphia e-Quality, a non-profit company that accelerates the adoption of electronic health records in small physician practices by aggregating financing from the multiple stakeholders who benefit from physician adaptation. Dr. Baron served as Chief Medical Officer of Health Partners, a not-for-profit Medicaid HMO set up by four teaching hospitals in Philadelphia, from 1988 to 1996. He was the architect of the Best Clinical and Administrative Practices program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Center for Health Care Strategies, working with medical leadership of Medicaid health plans across the country in learning collaboratives to improve the quality of care for their members. Dr. Baron received an English degree from Harvard University and his medical degree from Yale University. He did house staff training at NYU-Bellevue and served a three-year obligation in the National Health Service Corps in rural Tennessee. He became a member of The National Committee for Quality Assurance Standards Committee in 2005. Dr. Baron is the 2008 – 2009 ABIM Board Chair, a member of the Board's Executive Committee and a Trustee of the ABIM Foundation. He is board-certified in geriatric medicine and has voluntarily maintained his time-unlimited certification in internal medicine.

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