Reena Duseja, MD, MS
Senior Advisor to the Assistant
Under Secretary for Health for Quality and Patient Safety
Dr. Duseja serves as the Senior Advisor to the Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Quality and Patient Safety. In this position she provides expert advice on a full range of complex policy issues related to the formulation and establishment of effective health care policies, programs, and initiatives that fulfill the VHA's mission to provide patient centered, data driven, evidenced- based, safe, high quality and efficient health care for Veterans.
Dr. Duseja is an emergency physician who has experience managing cross-cutting, complex initiatives in a variety of private and public settings. She most recently served as a White House Leadership Fellow at the Office of Management and Budget, where she led significant initiatives including helping standup the Safer Federal Workforce Taskforce and vaccine reporting for COVID-19 operations across federal agencies. She developed human capital workforce metrics that helped inform one of the pillars for President Biden’s President Management Agenda, and supported the implementation of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Executive Order.
Prior to OMB, Dr. Duseja was at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), where she served as the Chief Medical Officer of the Quality Measurement and Value-Based Incentives Group in the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality. In this role, Dr. Duseja provided leadership and oversight for the measure development and management of CMS’s Medicare quality reporting and value- based purchasing programs, led alignment efforts in quality and cost measurement across the agency and interagency, developed innovative
approaches to transform healthcare programs, and presented nationally on health care national priorities including value-based transformation. Before joining federal service, Dr. Duseja was an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). There, she was a health services researcher, clinician, led quality improvement activities in a large county hospital, and funded by the National Institutes of Health to conduct studies related to improving patient care and value for the health system.
Senior Advisor to the Assistant
Under Secretary for Health for Quality and Patient Safety
Dr. Duseja serves as the Senior Advisor to the Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Quality and Patient Safety. In this position she provides expert advice on a full range of complex policy issues related to the formulation and establishment of effective health care policies, programs, and initiatives that fulfill the VHA's mission to provide patient centered, data driven, evidenced- based, safe, high quality and efficient health care for Veterans.
Dr. Duseja is an emergency physician who has experience managing cross-cutting, complex initiatives in a variety of private and public settings. She most recently served as a White House Leadership Fellow at the Office of Management and Budget, where she led significant initiatives including helping standup the Safer Federal Workforce Taskforce and vaccine reporting for COVID-19 operations across federal agencies. She developed human capital workforce metrics that helped inform one of the pillars for President Biden’s President Management Agenda, and supported the implementation of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Executive Order.
Prior to OMB, Dr. Duseja was at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), where she served as the Chief Medical Officer of the Quality Measurement and Value-Based Incentives Group in the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality. In this role, Dr. Duseja provided leadership and oversight for the measure development and management of CMS’s Medicare quality reporting and value- based purchasing programs, led alignment efforts in quality and cost measurement across the agency and interagency, developed innovative
approaches to transform healthcare programs, and presented nationally on health care national priorities including value-based transformation. Before joining federal service, Dr. Duseja was an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). There, she was a health services researcher, clinician, led quality improvement activities in a large county hospital, and funded by the National Institutes of Health to conduct studies related to improving patient care and value for the health system.
