Joseph Messer is a Clinical Consultant at MJP Healthcare Innovations, Professor of Medicine and Senior Attending Physician at Rush Medical College, a member of the Consulting Staff of NorthShore University HealthSystem, and Senior Clinician Educator at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He has served as Director of the Section of Cardiology at Rush University Medical Center, as Board Chairman and Medical Director of Chicago Cardiovascular Associates, and as Director of the Illinois’ Interinstitutional Cardiovascular Center, a research and demonstration program comprised of the cardiology faculties of medical schools in Illinois. He was formerly Chief of the Cardiovascular Unit at the Boston City Hospital with faculty appointments at Brandeis, Tufts, Boston University, and Harvard.
Dr. Messer has served as Illinois Governor of the American College of Cardiology, President of the American Heart Association of Metropolitan Chicago, Chairman of the Chicago Cardiology Group, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Chicago’s Weiss Memorial Hospital, a University of Chicago affiliate. Nationally, he has served the American College of Cardiology as Chairman of the Board of Governors, Chair of its Task Force on Managed Health Care, the Coding and Nomenclature Committee, Guideline Writing Groups, and the Task Force on Performance Measures. He chaired the College’s Cardiology Carrier Advisory Committee, and served as a member of the College’s Budget, Finance and Investment and Audit Committees. He has served on the College’s Technical Panels for Appropriateness Criteria for Nuclear Imaging, Computed Cardiac Tomography and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Echocardiography, Heart Failure Imaging, and Ischemic Heart Disease. He represented the College on the Physicians’ Consortium for Performance Improvement and serves on its Technical Expert Panels for Heart Care and Acute Myocardial Infarction and Stroke. He has served as a member of the National Quality Forum’s Ambulatory Care Heart Disease Technical Panel and its Cardiovascular Consensus Standards Maintenance Committee, as a consultant to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and as a member of the AMA’s CPT Editorial Panel.
Dr. Messer has served as Associate Editor of Chest, Editor for Cardiology of the World Book Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center Encyclopedia, a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the College’s Extended Learning Program (ACCEL), Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis, the American Heart Hospital Journal, and has published more than 150 scientific papers, reviews, and book chapters.
Dr. Messer graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and completed residency and a cardiology fellowship at Boston City and Peter Bent Brigham Hospitals. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Chest Physicians, the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions, the American Heart Association, and the Institute of Medicine of Chicago. He is a Master of the American College of Cardiology and is a recipient of the College’s Distinguished Fellowship Award and the American College of Physicians’ Claypoole Award.