MD, MS
UNC School of Medicine
Matthew Nielsen, MD MS FACS is The John Sloan Rhodes and John Flint Rhodes Distinguished Professor and Chair for the UNC Department of Urology, where he has received the UNC Health Care System Physician Friend of Nursing Award and the H. Fleming Fuller, MD Award in recognition of his service as a physician leader. He also serves on the adjunct faculty in the Departments of Epidemiology and Health Policy & Management in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. His clinical practice focused in urologic oncology dovetails with his research in medical decision making, cancer care quality and implementation science, nationally recognized by the Rising Stars in Urology Research Award. In 2018, he was recognized as a Young Urologist of the Year by the AUA.
Dr. Nielsen has also been actively engaged in quality improvement and patient safety efforts as Associate Director of the UNC Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement and UNC Faculty Physicians’ Director of Quality. He previously served the AUA as Chair of the Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS) Committee and currently serves as Chair of the AUA Science and Quality Council, overseeing and coordinating activities across AUA’s QIPS, Data/Registry, and Guidelines Committees. He has also served on the American College of Physicians’ High Value Care Task Force and Performance Measurement Committee. He has served on multiple Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Technical Expert Panels (CMS TEPs), including the CMS Quality Measure Development Plan and Quality Measure Index TEP, and is a Fellow in Diagnostic Excellence with the National Academy of Medicine.
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