Advisory Board

Benjamin Chu, MD, MPH

President, Kaiser Permanente Southern California


Helen Darling

President, National Business Group on Health


Nancy Davenport-Ennis

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, National Patient Advocate Foundation and Patient Advocate Foundation


Susan Dentzer

Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs


Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, Ph.D.

President, Institute of Medicine of The National Academies


David B. Hoyt, MD, FACS

Executive Director, American College of Surgeons


Margaret E. O'Kane, MHA

President, National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)


Arnold Milstein, MD

Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health; National Health Care Thought Leader, Mercer Health and Benefits


William P. Pierskalla Ph.D.

Professor and Former Dean of the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, Former President of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies


J. Sanford Schwartz, MD

Leon Hess Professor of Medicine and Health Management & Economics, School of Medicine and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania


Mark D. Smith, M.D., M.B.A.

President and Chief Executive Officer, California HealthCare Foundation


Glenn Steele Jr., MD, PhD

President and CEO, Geisinger Health System


James R. Tallon, Jr., MA

President of the United Hospital Fund of New York, Chair of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and Secretary/Treasurer of the Alliance for Health Reform


Richard J. Umbdenstock

President and Chief Executive Officer, American Hospital Association


Gail R. Wilensky, Ph.D

Senior Fellow, Project HOPE, President of the Defense Health Board, a Federal advisory board to the Secretary of Defense, Former Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (now known as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services).