William E. Golden, M.D. is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences where he served as director of the division of general internal medicine for nearly 20 years. He is currently the Medical Director, Arkansas Office of Health Information Technology. For the past decade, he was Medical Director of Arkansas Medicaid and was the lead clinician for the program's Payment Improvement Initiative which has received a $42 million CMS payment reform testing grant from CMMI. In this role, he has shaped the design and implementation of over a dozen clinical episodes and a statewide Patient Centered Medical Home program. He is also directed Arkansas Medicaid's hospital pay for performance program which reduced early elective deliveries over 90%. Previously, he served for 16 years as Vice President for Clinical Quality of the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care for which he has designed numerous statewide quality improvement for Medicare and Medicaid. He is currently a member of the NQF Appeals Committee. A past member of the HCP-LAN Guiding Committee, he co-chaired a workgroup that released a white paper for alternative payment mechanisms for primary care that foretold the CMS model of Primary Care First.

A past Chair the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians, Dr. Golden served on the Board of Directors of the National Quality Forum from 2001-2004 and was President of the American Health Quality Association from 1997-2000. He has been a methodologist member of the AMA Physician Consortium for Performance Measurement for over a decade. Among his awards and recognitions, he received the national James Q. Cannon award for physician leadership in clinical quality improvement (2001), Mastership in the American College of Physicians (2008), the Alfred Stengel Memorial Award for service to the American College of Physicians (2011), and UAMS Public Health School Award for Leadership in Public Health (2014).

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1984 2003 Director, Division of General Internal Medicine, UAMS, Little Rock, AR
1990-1999 Associate Professor, UAMS, Dept of Medicine
1999- Professor, UAMS, Dept of Medicine
1992-2008 Vice President, Quality Improvement, Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care
1997-2000 President, American Health Quality Association
2003- Professor, UAMS, College of Public Health
2008- Medical Director, Arkansas Medicaid
2019- Medical Director, Arkansas Office of Health Information Technology

NATIONAL LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE:
1995-96 President, American Society of Internal Medicine
1997-00 President, American Health Quality Association
2000-2008 Member, Board of Regents, American College of Physicians
2001-2004 Member, Board of Directors, National Quality Forum
2006-2007 Chair, Board of Regents. American College of Physicians
2006-2014 Member, Executive Committee, Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI)
2015-2017 Member, Guiding Committee HCP-LAN
2016 Chair, Medicaid Medical Directors’ Learning Network (MMDN)

1997 - Present Chair, ACP Delegation to the American Medical Association (now with 33 ACP delegates)

I participate in numerous statewide webinars and conferences to promote quality improvement activities using statewide data sorted by individual practice sites.