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Alice Stollenwerk Petrulis, MD, FACP – Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Alice Petrulis, highly respected throughout the national healthcare quality improvement arena, became the KePRO’s Chief Medical Officer in December 2005. She oversees all of the KePRO family of companies’ medical directors, and provides clinical leadership relative to the quality improvement process. Dr. Petrulis also assists and promotes business development and strategic planning activities, and recruits physicians for our review panels and as medical directors.

Previously, she served as the Medical Director, Post-Acute Care Services of Ohio KePRO for five years. She spearheaded the efforts to ensure the medical integrity of Ohio KePRO’s provider and patient quality improvement interventions, tools, and presentations. Dr. Petrulis also served in the organization’s lead medical role for long-term care, home health care, and outpatient physician office projects, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ DOQ-IT initiative.

Dr. Petrulis is Board certified in internal medicine and nephrology, and licensed in Ohio. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington University (in St. Louis, MO), and her medical degree from The Ohio State University. Dr. Petrulis is an adjunct professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University. She is also the Co-Chair of the National Quality Forum’s Ambulatory Practice Steering Committee, which reviews quality measures that organizations like CMS and insurance companies use.

Previously, she served as the Associate Chief of Staff, Director of Managed Care and Utilization, and the Medical Director, Care Management Department at MHSMetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, OH.

Dr. Petrulis has authored numerous articles and presentations, and has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of General Internal Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association, to name a few.