Dr. Rumsfeld is the Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Science Officer for the American College of Cardiology (ACC). He is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and an Attending Cardiologist at the VA Rocky Mountain Region Medical Center.
Previously, Dr. Rumsfeld served as National Director for Cardiology for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) (2012-2017), and as Chief Science Officer for the ACC’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) programs (2005-2016). He also founded and was National Director for the VA’s Clinical Assessment Reporting and Tracking program (national clinical quality and analytics program)(2009- 2016).
A member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), Dr. Rumsfeld is a globally recognized leader in cardiovascular quality of care and outcomes research, clinical quality programs, and healthcare analytics. In 2016, he received the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Quality of Care and Outcomes Research from the American Heart Association.
Dr. Rumsfeld received his medical degree from the University of Chicago and doctoral degree in Epidemiology from the University of Colorado. He completed his internal medicine internship and residency at the University of California, San Francisco, and cardiology fellowship at the University of Colorado.