Lisa Gale Suter, M.D. is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, and is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. She is also the Associate Director of the Quality Measurement Program at Yale-New Haven Health Services Corporation Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE).  After completing her medical degree and rheumatology fellowship at Yale University and her post-graduate training in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, she trained as a health services researcher through the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. At CORE, Dr. Suter has led the development and implementation of hospital-level outcome measures under contract to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), including orthopedic and cardiovascular surgery outcome measures. She is the technical lead for readmission and complication outcome measures following elective total hip and total knee replacement that will be publicly reported by CMS starting in 2013. She also oversees CORE’s surveillance work of existing, publicly reported CMS hospital-level outcome measures. In addition to her work in quality measurement at CORE, Dr. Suter continues to study technology assessment and technology adoption in musculoskeletal and inflammatory diseases.