Frank Opelka (ACS)
Frank Opelka, MD, FACS, is a member of the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network’s Guiding Committee. He serves as Medical Director of Quality and Health Policy at the American College of Surgeons in Washington, DC, and Executive Vice President of Health Care and Medical Education Redesign for the Louisiana State University (LSU) Health System. A professor of surgery, he also serves as Chair of the American Medical Association’s Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement, chairs the National Quality Forum’s Consensus Standards Advisory Committee, and he founded and chairs the Surgical Quality Alliance convening over 20 surgical specialties. Dr. Opelka leads an LSU statewide effort using “big data” in a clinical data warehouse that provides rich analytics for quality improvement, real-time clinical decision supports, feeds for maintenance of certification reporting, and outputs for national specialty data registries. Dr. Opelka reviews for five international journals and is a colorectal surgeon. He received his bachelor’s degree in biology from St. Mary’s University and his MD from the Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin U-Med & Science.