Peter J. Katsufrakis, MD, MBA is a board-certified Family Physician and the President and CEO of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). His professional focus is to improve the quality of care provided to patients through effective assessment of health care professionals. In this role he leads the NBME to help health professionals maximize their ability to provide excellent care to their patients. He moved from California to be near the NBME’s Philadelphia headquarters in the mid-2000s and relocated to Palm Springs in 2024.

Prior to the NBME he was the associate dean for student affairs at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and has also served as national chair of the Group on Student Affairs of the American Association of Medical Colleges. As faculty in USC’s Department of Family Medicine he served as principal investigator of USC’s Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center, providing care for patients with HIV/AIDS and teaching other health care professionals about HIV/AIDS in the early days of the epidemic. In cooperation with the US Health Resources and Services Administration and the International Training and Education Center for HIV, he has helped develop training programs and provide training for health care professionals in Ethiopia.

Dr. Katsufrakis earned his medical degree from the University of California, San Diego, served his internship and residency in family medicine at Santa Monica Hospital, and earned an MBA from the University of Southern California.