Tom Granatir
Senior Vice-President
Health Policy and Strategic Partnerships

Tom Granatir joined the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) in September 2010 as senior vice-president for health policy and strategic partnerships.  He is responsible for state and federal policy development and strategic relationships in the private and public sector.  He is part of the executive team.

Granatir has more than 25 years of experience working in health policy with a particular focus on quality and public accountability.  He has worked in mental health policy for the state of Illinois; hospital policy for the American Hospital Association, the Health Research and Educational Trust, and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; long-term care policy for the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group; and in public health policy for Humana Inc., both in the United States and in the United Kingdom.  He has served on the governing boards of the American Health Quality Association, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Bridges to Excellence, the National Association of Health Data Organizations, and Henry Booth House, a service agency for poor residents of Chicago.  He has been an examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Program and a member of the Health Policy Roundtable of the Michael Reese Health Trust, and taught at the University of Chicago Graduate Program in health policy and administration.  He currently serves on the Roundtable on Ethnic and Racial Disparities of the Institute of Medicine and is on the board of the Alliance to Make US Healthiest.