Robert B. Doherty
Senior Vice President of Governmental Affairs & Public Policy American College of Physicians
Mr. Doherty is Senior Vice President of Governmental Affairs and Public Policy for the American College of Physicians (ACP), the largest physician specialty society and second largest medical organization in the United States. ACP represents 137,000 internal medicine physicians and medical students. Mr. Doherty has more than 33 years of health policy experience and is an accomplished presenter at health conferences. From 1979 to 1998, Mr. Doherty worked in the governmental affairs department of the American Society of Internal Medicine, and with the merger of ASIM and ACP in June, 1998, joined the ACP as Senior Vice President for Governmental Affairs and Public Policy. He has senior staff management responsibilities for ACP’s departments of legislative affairs, public policy, regulatory affairs, and public affairs.
