Associate Medical Director Research, Medical Education, Medicaid, HIV and STDs, LGBTQI Health
Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Michael Alan Horberg, MD, MAS, FACP, FIDSA is Associate Medical Director Research, Medical Education, Community Health, Medicaid, Genetics, HIV and STD, Transgender Health of the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group (MAPMG) and the director of the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Research Institute (MAPRI). As Associate Medical Director, Dr. Horberg is responsible for all research activities in Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States (KPMAS), along with undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education, including the new internal medicine residency program. He serves as the medical director for KPMAS Community Health, and is the Medicaid leader for MAPMG, including Chief Medical Officer for Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States in Maryland Medicaid. Michael leads HIV, STD, and transgender health care efforts in the region, and HIV and STD care program-wide for Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Horberg leads our Medical Genetics and Genomics strategy for MAPMG and is Executive Sponsor for KPMAS’ Commission on Cancer Accreditation and National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.
Dr. Horberg serves as director of HIV/AIDS program-wide for Kaiser Permanente and as Clinical Lead for HIV/AIDS and STDs for the Care Management Institute. Dr. Horberg has served on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, having co-chaired the Access to Care and Improved Outcomes Committee. Dr. Horberg is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA). He is Past-Chair of the Board of Directors of the HIV Medicine Association of IDSA. He presently co-chairs the HIVMA/IDSA HIV Primary Care Guidelines Committee. Dr. Horberg has served as a commissioner of the State of Maryland Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission. He is past-president of the national Gay and Lesbian Medical Association.
In his role as Executive Director of MAPRI, Dr. Horberg leads a department of both clinical and data research with over 50 team members. In his role as MAPMG lead for Medicaid, he is Chief Medical Office for KPMAS’ participation in Maryland Medicaid, as well as helping lead clinical operational efforts in both Maryland and Virginia Medicaid, and serving on the KPMAS Medicaid Executive Committee.
His HIV research interests are health service outcomes for HIV-infected patients (including HIV quality measures and care improvement, and determinants of optimized multidisciplinary care for maximized HIV outcomes), medication adherence issues in these patients, and epidemiology of the disease. Dr. Horberg serves as the MAPRI principal investigator for the Kaiser Permanente Research Bank (national genomics initiative). Other research interests include other sexually transmitted diseases and hepatitis. Dr. Horberg has published over one hundred manuscripts and delivered over one hundred presentations at scientific meetings; all are in peer-reviewed literature or conferences. He has chaired multiple Expert Panels on HIV-related provider performance measures (including ones sponsored by CMS, NCQA, and IDSA), and has served on NIH and CDC peer-review panels.
A Chicagoan by birth, Dr. Horberg attended Boston University Medical School, and received his Master of Advanced Studies, from University of California San Francisco.
