Gerald Steinberg, MD
Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Gerald Steinberg is Chief Medical Officer for Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA). In this capacity, he provides physician leadership and oversees medical quality across the healthcare system. This includes overseeing improvements to clinical processes and systems to maintain high quality care for patients, physicians, affiliates, and payers.

Dr. Steinberg joined CHA in 2005 as Chief Medical Quality Officer and Senior Medical Director. Since that time, he has worked tirelessly to enhance the "quality profile" of CHA and to promote the necessary accountability to ensure continuous improvement. He is proud to have led performance improvement initiatives that have resulted in better care for patients with high risk, high volume illness such as pneumonia, heart failure, and myocardial infarction. As a result, CHA's aggregate quality measures have risen dramatically, placing the system at or near the top quartile for safety net hospitals across the country.

Before joining CHA, Dr. Steinberg was Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer of UMass Memorial Health Care. He also served as interim Chairman of the Department of Orthopedics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and was the Feigenbaum Distinguished Professor of Quality. He also served as Chief Medical Officer of UMass Memorial Health Care, administering medical oversight for the development and operation of the health care system.

Dr. Steinberg is an AOA graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and received his Bachelor's Degree, Cum Laude, from Rutgers University where he was a Henry Rutgers Scholar. He received his orthopedic training in the Harvard Combined Orthopedic Program after completing a Research Fellowship at Harvard.