Peter G. Goldschmidt, MD, DrPH, DMS
Biographical sketch
Peter G. Goldschmidt is President of World Development Group,
a business development and consulting company that specializes in health information
and decision support systems, health care quality management including patient
safety, predictive modeling and forecasting, and strategic planning for biotechnology
and health care companies. He also founded and/or held senior management positions
in various health care organizations, and was formerly Director of Health
Services Research & Development Service, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA), Washington, DC. The VA operates the world's largest unified hospital
system. Its annual expenditures exceed US$30 billion.
Dr. Goldschmidt has extensive experience in the design and deployment of health
and management information systems and decision support technologies (expert
systems). He is an expert on outcomes research and cost-effectiveness analysis.
He is the author of the comprehensive manual Quality management in heath
care (published by McGraw Hill, 1995). For the U.S. Department of Defense,
he designed the Civilian External Peer Review Program, which was used worldwide;
the VA also adopted this model. He also designed the first commercially-available
system for routinely assessing the quality of hospital care. He was a member
of the Computer-based Patient Record Institute's Concept Model Subcommittee
of the Codes and Structure Workgroup, and of the special Pan-American Health
Organization expert committee on health information systems. As a Consultant
to the U.S. Institute of Medicine, he designed the Medical Technology Assessment
Directory. He is a former member of the U.S. Technology Coordinating Committee.
His activities for the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment included
writing a background paper for its study on the quality of medical care, and
serving on the advisory panel for its study of VA Decentralized Hospital Computer
Systems. His most important studies include the Medical Practice Information
Demonstration Project (for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services),
and a Comprehensive Study of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications
of Biomedical and Behavioral Research and Technology, a study mandated
by the U.S. Congress.
Dr. Goldschmidt's international health experience includes missions for the
U.S. Trade and Development Agency (TDA), U.S. Agency for International Development
(AID), World Bank, and World Health Organization. For TDA, he has conducted
definitional missions to Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Indonesia, and
Poland, and has performed studies regarding Azerbaijan, Egypt, Hungary, Poland,
Russia, South Africa, and Uzbekistan. For AID, he assisted the Egyptian Ministry
of Health strengthen rural health services, and evaluated a nationwide replication
plan for primary health care in rural Egypt. As a consultant to World Bank,
Dr. Goldschmidt assisted the government of Yemen Arab Republic to develop
its health sector. As a consultant to WHO in Geneva, he conducted a worldwide
survey of health manpower development. This study included case-study site
visits to, Barbados, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Gabon, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
Dr. Goldschmidt is a graduate of University College Hospital Medical School
(London), the University of Westminster School of Management Studies (London),
and the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.