DIO Participation in Graduate Medical Education Transformation

Abraham Nussbaum, MD, is a physician and writer in Denver, Colorado. He is a professor of psychiatry and assistant dean of graduate medical education at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where he directs the Mind and Behavior course for all first-year medical students. He works clinically at Denver Health, an academic safety-net system, on its adult inpatient psychiatry units, where he cares for adults experiencing mental health crises. Administratively, he is Denver Health’s Chief Education Officer, providing strategic vision, daily direction, and administrative oversight for Denver Health's clinical education programs, which educate over 2,000 students and 1,000 resident physicians annually. He is the DIO for both Denver Health and Denver Community Health Services and has opened new residencies, sponsoring institutions, and secured funding for innovative work in training immigrant physicians. He has written several psychiatric textbooks, an academic memoir, and his most recent book, Progress Notes: One Year In The Future of Medicine, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2024. He and his wife, a family medicine program director, have three children, and live in Denver.