David P. Stevens, MD is a general internist. He has held his current position at the Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC since 1999. The Liaison Committee on Medical Education is the accrediting body for medical schools in North America.

From 1996 to 1999, he was Chief, Office of Academic Affiliations, for the Department of Veteran Affairs in Washington. During his tenure the VA – which supports 9% of graduate medical education in the U.S. – enhanced training in primary care, increasing the proportion of generalist residency positions in the VA from 36 % to 48% while establishing subspecialty residency training that emphasized access and continuity for the care of seriously and chronically ill patients. The Office also launched new training initiatives that included training in health care quality improvement, greater emphasis on learning in the interdisciplinary care settings, and training for improved care of patients near the end of life.

During the 1995 – 96 academic year, Dr. Stevens was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow at the Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC. In this capacity he served as health policy advisor to Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Chairman of the Senate Labor Committee.

Prior to moving to Washington, Dr. Stevens was Vice Dean and the Scott R. Inkley Professor of General Internal Medicine at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland. In addition to his role as Vice Dean, he was the architect of the Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Initiative in collaboration with the Henry Ford Health System.

A graduate of Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, his post-graduate studies included training at the NIH, and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia.