Advisory Board Members
Cyril Chantler, MD, FRCP, FRCPCH, FMedSci
Chairman of the University College London Partners Academic Health Science Partnership
Benjamin Chu, MD, MPH
President & CEO, Memorial Hermann Health System
Helen Darling
President & CEO, National Business Group on Health
Nancy Davenport-Ennis
Founder & CEO, National Patient Advocate Foundation and Patient Advocate Foundation
Susan Dentzer
Senior Policy Adviser, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; former Editor-in-Chief of Health Affairs
David B. Hoyt, MD, FACS
Executive Director, American College of Surgeons
Margaret E. O’Kane, MHA
President, National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
Peter R. Orszag, PhD
Vice Chairman of Corporate and Investment Banking, Citigroup Inc.; Columnist, Bloomberg View; previously served as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama Administration
William P. Pierskalla, PhD
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, MD, MBA
President & CEO, California HealthCare Foundation
Glenn Steele Jr., MD, PhD
President & 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 & CEO, American Hospital Association
Gail R. Wilensky, PhD
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).