USPSTF Cover Letter (Chat GPT from CV and Fed Reg solicitation)

 

Bruce Quinn, MD, PhD, MBA
Los Angeles, California
bruce@brucequinn.com
323-839-8637

 

May 23, 2026

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Nomination Committee

Dear Members of the Nomination Committee:

I am pleased to submit my self-nomination for service on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. I am a physician-scientist, board-certified pathologist/neuropathologist, former Medicare Medical Director, and health policy consultant with long experience evaluating clinical evidence, translating evidence into coverage and policy decisions, and communicating the implications of scientific findings to clinicians, policymakers, health systems, and industry stakeholders.

My qualifications align with the Task Force’s stated needs in several ways. First, I have extensive experience in critical evaluation of peer-reviewed evidence, beginning with my academic career at UCLA, NYU, and Northwestern, where I conducted NIH-funded research and published more than 30 scientific papers. Second, I have substantial experience applying evidence to clinical and health-system decision-making. As Medical Director for California Medicare Part B, I evaluated medical technologies, developed coverage policies, and led medical review activities for a large and diverse Medicare population. Third, my subsequent work in national health policy and reimbursement strategy has focused on evidence standards, clinical utility, health economics, and the practical implementation of evidence-based decisions in real-world care.

I would bring to the USPSTF a perspective that bridges clinical medicine, laboratory medicine, molecular diagnostics, Medicare policy, health economics, and implementation. Much of my recent work has focused on how evidence is assessed for emerging technologies, including genomic and diagnostic tests, and how recommendations are understood and acted on by clinicians, payers, health systems, policymakers, and patients. I believe this cross-stakeholder experience would be useful to the Task Force as it evaluates preventive services in an increasingly complex clinical and technological environment.

I also bring extensive experience communicating scientific and policy issues to varied audiences. Through publications, white papers, conference presentations, and my health policy writing, I have worked to make complex evidence and policy questions understandable without oversimplifying them. I would hope to contribute to the clarity, rigor, and practical relevance of USPSTF recommendations.

I understand that USPSTF service requires sustained collaboration, careful review of evidence, participation in meetings and workgroups, responsiveness between meetings, and regular conflict-of-interest disclosure. I am willing to serve as a member of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and to devote the time and effort needed to contribute substantively to its work.

Thank you for considering my nomination.

Sincerely,

Bruce Quinn, MD, PhD, MBA