Catherine Roberts

Catherine C. Roberts, M.D. is a board certified radiologist subspecializing in musculoskeletal imaging. She is additionally board certified in both Clinical Informatics by the American Board of Preventative Medicine (ABPM) and in Health Care Quality and Management, with recognized sub-specialty expertise in Patient Safety/Risk Management, by the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians (ABQAURP). She is a Certified Physician Executive by the Certifying Commission in Medical Management. She is a Physician's Review Network Certified Peer Reviewer and holds Health Information Technology Leadership Certification from the American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL). Dr. Roberts is a Certified Patient Safety Officer by the IBFCSM and is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt by the American Society of Quality. Dr. Roberts serves on multiple committees at a national level, including the American College of Radiology (ACR) Appropriateness Criteria Committee and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Committee on Evidence-Based Quality and Value, where she is actively involved with establishing and monitoring national healthcare quality performance metrics. She has co-authored over 50 ACR Appropriateness Criteria topics on musculoskeletal imaging. She has instituted national quality metrics with the National Quality Forum (NQF) since 2010. Dr. Roberts has both formal training and extensive practical experience in quality improvement and clinical informatics. Six of her 72 abstracts and six of her 84 peer-reviewed publications are on quality improvement. Fifteen of her 97 national and international presentations have been on safety and quality improvement. She has authored 75 book chapters and co-authored 2 radiology textbooks. She has over 285 total publications that have been cited over 2,000 times.