CMS, then AHRQ’s, Tunis moves on
Executive Summary
Former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Chief Medical Officer Sean Tunis joins policy think tank Health Technology Center as a research fellow. Tunis most recently worked in the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality's Office of Extramural Research, Education & Priority Populations (1"The Pink Sheet" Sept. 26, 2005, In Brief). Tunis left CMS in June after he accepted a fine and one-year suspension of his medical license to resolve charges that he falsified continuing medical education documents. Although HTC is based in San Francisco, Tunis will remain in Baltimore and hopes to resume practicing emergency medicine once his license is restored in 2006...
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