Michael Horberg, MD, MAS, FACP, FIDSA

Associate Medical Director of Research, Medical Education, Community Health, Medicaid, Genomics, HIV & STI, Transgender Health, Complex Care Program, Infection Prevention

Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Permanente Research Institute
Director, HIV/AIDS and STI, Kaiser Permanente and Care Management Institute

Michael.Horberg@kp.org

Education:

MAS, University of California, San Francisco
Residency, Categorical Internal Medicine, Michael Reese Hospital/University of Chicago
MD, Boston University School of Medicine
BA, Boston University

Academic Affiliations:

Professor of Medicine, Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine

Professional Affiliations:

Past Chair, Kaiser Permanente National Research Council
Co-Chair, AHIP/CMS HIV and Hepatitis C Quality Measures Working Group
Co-chair, IDSA/HIVMA HIV Primary Care Guideline Committee
Immediate Past Chair, Health Care Systems Research Network
Past Chair, HIV Medicine Association
Past President, Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
Fellow, American College of Physicians
Fellow, Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA)
Member, AcademyHealth

Michael Alan Horberg, MD, MAS, FACP, FIDSA, is Associate Medical Director for Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group (KPMAS MAPMG), serving greater Baltimore and the District of Columbia, suburban Maryland, and northern Virginia.  In that role, he is responsible for Research, Medical Education, Community Health, Medicaid, Genomics, HIV and STI, Complex Care, LGBTQI+ Health, and Infection Prevention.

Dr. Horberg is the director of HIV/AIDS nationally for KP, serving nearly 80,000 members with HIV, as well as Clinical Lead for HIV/AIDS and STI, creating clinical multidisciplinary guidelines to improve such care in KP. He has chaired the KP HIV, Liver Disease, STI, and LGBTQ Health Conference since 2003, bringing together clinical and research staff to ensure best practices.

Under President Obama, Dr. Horberg served on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) and co-chaired the Access to Care and Improved Outcomes Committee.  Dr. Horberg is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).  He is Past-Chair of the Board of Directors of the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA).  He has served on the IDSA Quality Performance Committee and presently co-chairs the HIVMA/IDSA HIV Primary Care Guideline Committee. Dr. Horberg presently serves as the physician chair of the CDC-sponsored Health Care Action Group, promoting sexual health. 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. He is the past-president of the National Gay and Lesbian Medicine Association.

Dr. Horberg leads HIV, STI, and Infection Prevention for MAPMG. He directs LGBTQI+ care and led the creation of Pride Medical and Gender Pathways clinics within KPMAS. In his role as medical director for KPMAS Community Health and chief medical officer for KPMAS Maryland and Virginia Medicaid, he works to improve health equity and care access for underserved populations in the region.

As Executive Director for research, he is responsible for all research in KPMAS.  In this role, he leads a department of clinical and data research with over seventy employees.  His HIV research interests are HIV quality measures, care improvement, and determinants of optimized multidisciplinary care for HIV-infected patients. He studies epidemiology of HIV, hepatitis, sexually transmitted, and COVID infections (including Long COVID), leading all HIV care programs and COVID efforts in KPMAS.  Dr. Horberg has published over 200 manuscripts and delivered over 100 presentations at scientific meetings (all peer-reviewed).

As Director of Medical Education, he is the Designated Institutional Official for KPMAS and is responsible for all undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education. He is also the Executive Sponsor of the Commission on Cancer Accreditation and the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.

Dr. Horberg attended Boston University Medical School and received his Master of Advanced Studies from the University of California, San Francisco. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Chicago, Michael Reese Hospital, and Medical Center. He lives in Maryland with his husband, Chip.

Research Interests:

HIV/AIDS:

• Models of Care
• HIV Care and Outcomes Quality Metrics
• Registry Development
• Pharmaceutical Safety and Comparative Effectiveness

Sexually Transmitted Infection:

• Gay/Lesbian Health and STI risk
• Syphilis

Hepatitis:

• Registry Development
• Hepatitis Care Quality Metrics

For a full list of publications, please see Dr. Horberg’s Curriculum Vitae.