Tunis lands at AHRQ
Executive Summary
Former CMS Chief Medical Officer Sean Tunis joins Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality's Office of Extramural Research, Education & Priority Populations Sept. 22 as a senior biomedical research scientist responsible for training health service researchers. In June, Tunis paid a $20,000 fine and accepted a one-year suspension of his physician's license to settle charges that he falsified his continuing medical education records (1"The Pink Sheet" June 13, 2005, p. 23). Tunis is ineligible to participate in federally funded health care programs due to his suspended license...