About Us

What is the ACHQC?

The Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative (“ACHQC Foundation”) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization formerly known as Americas Hernia Society Quality Collaborative Foundation.  The Collaborative collects and aggregates health information, including, but not limited to, long term follow up data and patient reported outcomes, and publishes and provides de-identified and limited data sets of health information related to abdominal core and hernia surgical repairs to fulfill its mission to improve outcomes and value in abdominal core and hernia patient care. Through data collection, analysis, and collaborative learning, the ACHQC provides best practices, decision support, care pathways and ongoing performance feedback to participants and partners. The ACHQC is a CMS Qualified Clinical Data Registry and is an authoritative resource for organizations to assess quality metrics and demonstrate a commitment to efficient, value-based patient-centered hernia and abdominal care.  Participation in the ACHQC fulfills Part 4 of the American Board of Surgery Maintenance of Certification Program.

Mission

Leadership

• ACHQC Medical Director: Michael J. Rosen, MD, FACS James R. Hines Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of GI Surgery, Northwestern University 
• ACHQC Director for Quality and Outcomes: Benjamin K. Poulose, MD, MPH, FACS Professor of Surgery, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
• Coordinating Center: Ohio State University; Columbus, OH

Board of Directors

Michael Rosen, MD President	Benjamin Poulose, MD, MPH Vice President	Clayton Petro, MD Treasurer	Kaela Blake, MD Secretary
Mazen Al-Mansour, MBBS	Ivy Haskins, MD	Rana Higgins, MD	Anthony Iacco, MD
Flavio Malcher, MD, MSc	\ Megan Melland-Smith, MD	Arielle Perez, MD, MPH, MS	Michael Reinhorn, MD, MBA
Heitor Santos, MD	Robert Yates, MD

Financial Information

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