Vergil N SleeVergil N. Slee, MD, MPH, is Chairman of the Board of the Health Commons Institute and Emeritus Fellow of Estes Park Institute (EPI). He pioneered the Professional Activity Study (PAS) and founded the Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities(CPHA). Dr. Slee was president of the Council on Clinical Classifications, which, with the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, created the Clinical Modification of the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9-CM). He served for over twenty-five years as a member of the faculty of EPI. Dr. Slee is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American Public Health Association, and an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. In 1998, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill established the Vergil N. Slee Distinguished Professorship in Healthcare Quality Management in the School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Administration. Read More Read Less