Michelle P. Lin, MD, MPH, MS, serves as Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Acute Care Policy, Research, and Innovation Collaboratory at Stanford University. She is an emergency physician-scientist whose work strives to make emergency care more patient-centered, accessible and equitable. Dr. Lin leads the development of quality measures used by emergency physicians in federally mandated payment programs through her leadership roles in ACEP and the Emergency Medicine Data Institute (EMDI). She was previously a Fellow at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI).
Dr. Lin’s active NIH-funded research projects develop new quality measures based on what matters most to patients; improve post-ED discharge care, reduced admissions for high-risk patients and enhanced health professions workforce diversity and retention.
She is the sole emergency physician appointed to the All-Cause Admissions and Readmissions Standing Committee, with responsibility for issuing endorsement recommendations for all admissions and readmissions quality measures to CMS and national regulatory bodies.
Dr. Lin has received several national awards for her work, including the 2021 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Young Investigator Award, the inaugural EMRA 45 under 45 National Influencers in Emergency Medicine recognition in 2019 and the AcademyHealth Presidential Scholarship for New Health Services Researchers in 2016. She completed her medical education at Northwestern, residency at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City, and fellowship in Health Policy Research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She completed a Master of Clinical Epidemiology degree at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
About This Award
The Policy Pioneer Award recognizes early and mid-career members who have made outstanding contributions to the College’s health policy and advocacy initiatives.
