Peter Basch

Peter Basch, a Senior Fellow with the Center for American Progress, practices general internal medicine in Washington, DC. Dr. Basch is an early adopter of electronic health records and e-prescribing. He also serves as the medical director for Ambulatory Clinical Systems at MedStar Health, a nine-hospital, not-for-profit health system in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, and provides clinical leadership for its ambulatory EHR implementation. He is a board member of the eHealth Initiative, and represents the ACP at the Physician’s EHR Coalition, serving as a member of the coalition’s Executive Committee. Dr. Basch graduated from Trinity College with a B.A. in Psychology, Phi Beta Kappa, and received his M.D. from the George Washington University School of Medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.