AGENDA: PRECONFERENCE SYMPOSIA
Monday, March 27, 2017
(Registration optional; Precon I Required for Population Health Training Program)
PRECONFERENCE I: THE VOICE OF THE PATIENT IN POPULATION HEALTH
(Registration optional; Required for Population Health Training Program)
This engaging, interactive pre-conference will share the latest research and perspectives on the voice of the patient in health care. The most recent evidence on patient and family engagement will be presented by the team at the O’Neil Center at GetWellNetwork, whose mission is to advance the science of patient and family engagement.
The day kicks off with a keynote presentation by Dr. Stuart Baker, President of Navvis Healthways. Stuart leads the Health Systems and Physician Market, and the Consulting Firm for Healthways. He provides strategic counsel and implementation expertise on competitive market strategy, futuristic models of health care delivery, innovative design of the health system enterprise, organizational performance, hospital physician partnerships and networks, physician group practice, leadership, governance, population health and well-being. His experience as a clinician, physician leader, health system officer, clinical professor of medicine and corporate executive provides clients with the unique perspective and experience of both a physician and business leader. His remarks will be inspirational and informative.
Then, a research team from four leading health systems from across the country will outline their groundbreaking development of a Person Engagement Index (PEI), a composite measure that examines a person’s capacity to engage in their care. Dr. Karen Drenkard, PhD, RN will share the changes that are required from the clinicians to truly create a system that captures the voice of the patient in clinical care to impact population health. The pre-conference will close out with an Endnote from Lisa Stewart, the Patient Engagement Officer at PCORI, (Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute) to share her powerful story as a patient family member as well as the latest information about patients being involved in research activities.
8:00 am
Lead Differently: How Healthcare Leaders Can Create a Future Unrestrained by the Past
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President, Navvis and Company, Ballwin, MO
9:00 am
Engaging Patients More Effectively: The Interactive Care Model™
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Senior Vice President/Chief Clinical Officer and Chief Nurse, O’Neil Center at GetWellNetwork Inc., Bethesda, MD
Dr. Drenkard is the immediate past Executive Director at the American Nurses Credentialing Center and the Magnet Recognition Program. Prior to that, Drenkard served for 10 years as the SVP of nursing/chief nurse executive of Inova Health System. She is currently the chair of the Advocacy Committee of the Friends of the National Institute for Nursing Research (FNINR) and is President Elect.
9:30 am
Break
9:55 am
Person Engagement Index™ Instrumentation Study: Measuring a Person’s Capacity to Engage in Their Health Care
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Vice President/Research and Analytics, O’Neil Center at GetWellNetwork, Bethesda, MD (Moderator)
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Director, Nursing Administration Central Division, Carolinas Medical Center –Mercy, Carolinas Healthcare System, Fort Mill, SC
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Director, Innovation & Performance Improvement, Community Regional Medical Center, Fresno, CA
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Director of Professional Development and Clinical Excellence, Florida Hospital Celebration Health, Orlando, FL
She is also a lead faculty for the University of Phoenix, in their Master’s of Nursing, Healthcare Science and Business programs in Online and for the Orlando, Florida campus. She teaches courses such as Health Care Finance, Economics, Strategic Planning, Human Resources, Health Policy and Ethics, and Organizational Learning.
11:00 am
Patients at the Center: Quality Improvement in Care and Research
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Engagement Officer, PCORI, Public and Patient Engagement, Washington, DC
12:00 pm
Adjournment
PRECONFERENCE 2: The POPULATION HEALTH ALLIANCE FORUM 2017 — STAKEHOLDERS UNITED FOR POPULATION HEALTH™
(Registration optional)
The Population Health Alliance Forum 2017 — Stakeholders United for Population Health™ will be held on Monday, March 27th from 8 am — Noon in conjunction with the Population Health Colloquium in Philadelphia, PA.
This session will include exciting presentations and panels on industry wide and focused topics to include population health future trends and funding under the new administration, senior health and life sciences implications for population health. The session will close with a panel represented by the Population Health Alliance Board of Directors called “PHA Looking Glass” which will give you a view into the strategic initiatives supported by PHA.
8:00 am
Welcome and Opening remarks
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PHA Chairman of the Board; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, HealthCAWS
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Sandeep Wadhwa
PHA Executive Committee; Senior Vice President Noridian Health
8:20 am
Implications for Health Care under the New Administration
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Principal, Leavitt Partners
9:00 am
A Thought Leadership Perspective on Population Health
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Better Medicare Alliance
Allyson Y. Schwartz, a member of U.S. House of Representatives, 2005-2015, is a nationally recognized leader on health care. A former health care executive, Schwartz served in the Pennsylvania State Senate.
A strong advocate for Medicare, Schwartz is effective, thoughtful leader, known for her ability to find innovative solutions to health care coverage, quality and cost.
Schwartz has MSW from Bryn Mawr College and B.A. Simmons College.
9:40 am
Advancing Population Health for Seniors
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Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder, TripleCare (Chair)
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Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, AxisPoint
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Senior Vice President, Health Fitness
10:20 am
Break
10:30 am
Population Health Framework for Value-based Care
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Chief Executive Officer, UHealth Regional Alliance, University of Miami (Chair)
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Quality and Clinical Policy, Aetna
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Vice President, Clinical Strategy and Value Based Care, 3M Health Information Systems
She served as Commissioner of Health for the State of New York in the first term of Gov. George Pataki, having previously served as Director of Health in Rhode Island in the cabinet of Gov. Bruce Sundlun. In both roles Dr. DeBuono led efforts to develop Medicaid Managed Care and SCHIP programs. Following her role as Commissioner, she joined the New York Presbyterian Health System in New York City serving as Executive Vice President of their network. She has served on boards such as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), IOM Committee on Vaccine Finance (Publication: “Calling the Shots”), the Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the Partnership for Prevention.
Dr. DeBuono served as Executive Director, Public Health and Government at Pfizer Inc. where she created and managed public-private partnership programs in public health education and research. She has served as a consultant to The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, examining their Public Health Systems and Services Research investment. Prior to joining Treo, Dr. DeBuono was Senior Partner and Global Director of Health and Social Marketing at global public relations leader Porter Novelli, where she led the global health practice and a wide array of accounts in the pharmaceutical industry, life sciences and government.
Dr. DeBuono has served as a member of the Dean’s Council at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, where she is a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy. She served on the board of directors of Chembio Diagnostic Systems, Inc, a point of care testing company. She recently chaired their search for a new CEO/President and currently chairs their Compensation Committee.
Dr. DeBuono was honored by the CDC Foundation as one of five Public Health Heroes and she received the W.E. Upjohn Award from Pfizer, an award that acknowledges the achievements of those colleagues whose work and lives best reflect Pfizer’s core values.
She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and has been published extensively in numerous peer-review journals, including Journal of the American Medical Association, The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Public Health Policy and American Journal of Public Health.
Dr. DeBuono received her B.A. from the University of Rochester and her medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine. She received a Master’s in Public Health (M.P.H.) from the Harvard University School of Public Health and completed her medical residency at New England Deaconess Hospital. She completed a Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the Brown University Affiliated Hospitals Program (Providence, R.I.).
11:10 am
Looking Glass: A Window into PHA Initiatives
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Chief Executive Officer, Solera Health (Chair)
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Executive Vice President and Medical Director, American Specialty Health
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Vice President, Health Policy, UHG
11:50 am
Closing Remarks
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PHA Chairman of the Board; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, HealthCAWS
12:00 pm
Adjournment
PRECONFERENCE 3: ROI IN WELLNESS: GETTING THE REAL STORY
Validation Institute Certification Course
Walk away with
— Useful, practical tools for discerning high value from hype
— Scientific methods to assess a vendor’s ROI promises, and
— Confidence to make great choices for your wellness programs.
You will understand population health metrics, how measures work, and the role of measure stewards. Lots of case studies and step-by-step analysis, along with small group discussion, will make this few hours valuable time spent.
How many thousands of dollars will you be able to find, once you have these methods and tools?
Take the final exam and you will also walk away with a new credential. (Exam is optional.) You will be a certified as a population health consultant by the Validation Institute, and get a listing on the Institute’s website.
8:00 am
Speakers
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Independent Validator, Validation Institute; Principal, Health Economy LLC, Cape Elizabeth, ME
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Independent Validator, Validation Institute; Chief Executive Officer, Quizzify, Wellesley, MA
As a consultant, he is widely acclaimed for his expertise in population health and medical home outcomes and strategy, and in 2013 was named one of the unsung heroes changing health care forever. As a validator of medical home and population health outcomes, he is the primary consultant to the GE-Intel Validation Institute.
He is also a frequent speaker and interviewee on outcomes economics.
12:00 pm
Adjournment
12:00 p.m.
DAY 1 OPENING PLENARY SESSION
1:00 pm
Welcome and Overview
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Dean, Jefferson College of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA (Chair and Moderator)
Dr. Nash is a board-certified internist who is internationally recognized for his work in public accountability for outcomes, physician leadership development, and quality-of-care improvement.
Repeatedly named to Modern Healthcare’s list of Most Powerful Persons in Healthcare, his national activities cover a wide scope. Dr. Nash is a principal faculty member for quality of care programming for the American Association of Physician Leadership in Tampa, FL and leads their academic joint venture with JCPH. He serves on the NQF Task Force on Improving Population Health and the John M. Eisenberg Award Committee for The Joint Commission. He also is a founding member of the AAMC-IQ Steering Committee, the group charged with infusing the tenets of quality and safety into medical education.
Dr. Nash has governance responsibilities for organizations in the public and private sectors. He has chaired the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (HC4) for 18 years and he is widely recognized as a pioneer in the public reporting of outcomes. In the not-for-profit sector, Dr. Nash served on the Board of Trustees of Catholic Healthcare Partners (now Mercy Partners), in Cincinnati, OH (1998–2008), where he was the inaugural chair of the board committee on Quality and Safety. Currently, he is on the board of Main Line Health, a four-hospital system in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he also chairs the board committee on Quality and Safety. In the for-profit sector, Dr. Nash was named to the Board of Directors for Humana, Inc., one of the nation’s largest publically traded healthcare companies, in 2009. In October 2013 he joined the board of Vestex, a privately held advanced medical textile company in Orlando, FL. In 2014 he joined the board of InfoMC, a leading information technology company in suburban Philadelphia. He is on the health care advisory board for both Arsenal Capital Partners in NYC, and the Care Innovations Validation Institute, an Intel Company in Roseville, CA.
Dr. Nash has received many awards in recognition of his achievements. He received the top recognition award from the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (1995), the Philadelphia Business Journal Healthcare Heroes Award (1997), and was named an honorary distinguished fellow of the American College of Physician Executives in 1998. In 2006 he received the Elliot Stone Award for leadership in public accountability for health data from NAHDO. Wharton honored Dr. Nash in 2009 with the Wharton Healthcare Alumni Achievement Award and in 2012 with the Joseph Wharton Social Impact Award. Also in 2012, he and JCPH received the Philadelphia Business Journal award for innovation in medical education.
Dr. Nash’s work is well known through his many publications, public appearances, “Nash on the Road” blog, and online column on MedPage Today. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and edited 23 books, including Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer, The Quality Solution, Demand Better, and most recently Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness (2nd edition). He was the inaugural Deputy Editor of Annals of Internal Medicine (1984-1989). Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of American Journal of Medical Quality, Population Health Management, P&T, and American Health and Drug Benefits.
Dr. Nash received his BA in economics (Phi Beta Kappa) from Vassar College; his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and his MBA in Health Administration (with honors) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, he was a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and Medical Director of a nine-physician faculty group practice in general internal medicine.
1:15 pm
The Future of Managed Care
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Executive Vice President, Clinical Affairs and Center for Policy & Research, America’s Health Insurance Plans, Washington, DC
Presentation Material (Acrobat)
2:00 pm
Strategies to Enable PHM Success
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Chief Medical Officer, Philips Wellcentive; Adjunct Professor, Jefferson College of Population, Philadelphia, PA
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Chief Executive Officer and Business Group Leader, Population Health Management, Philips, Alpharetta, GA
Tom takes the helm at a time when health systems are shifting from volume to value-based care, and providing more preventative and chronic care services outside of the hospital. Tom will be looking to accelerate growth in connected care – from healthy living and prevention, to diagnosis, treatment and home care – enabling consumers, providers and health organizations to benefit from Philips’ strengthened offering in population health management.
2:45 pm
Networking Break in Exhibit Hall
3:15 pm
Good Health is Good Business: The Results of an Innovative Alignment with Physicians and Communities
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Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Humana, Inc., Louisville, KY
Chris has extensive executive experience with both public and private growth companies and brings broad knowledge of the healthcare industry to his new role. His experience ranges from leadership of strategic planning and corporate development to responsibilities that included broad P&L and Board of Directors accountability.
4:00 pm
APM’s, MACRA/MIPS: The Provider’s Perspective
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Managing Director, NA Clinical and Health Management Services, Accenture, Philadelphia, PA
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Director, Health Policy and Population Health Programs, Jefferson College of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
4:45 pm
Population Health Leaders Panel
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Dean, Jefferson College of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA (Moderator)
Dr. Nash is a board-certified internist who is internationally recognized for his work in public accountability for outcomes, physician leadership development, and quality-of-care improvement.
Repeatedly named to Modern Healthcare’s list of Most Powerful Persons in Healthcare, his national activities cover a wide scope. Dr. Nash is a principal faculty member for quality of care programming for the American Association of Physician Leadership in Tampa, FL and leads their academic joint venture with JCPH. He serves on the NQF Task Force on Improving Population Health and the John M. Eisenberg Award Committee for The Joint Commission. He also is a founding member of the AAMC-IQ Steering Committee, the group charged with infusing the tenets of quality and safety into medical education.
Dr. Nash has governance responsibilities for organizations in the public and private sectors. He has chaired the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (HC4) for 18 years and he is widely recognized as a pioneer in the public reporting of outcomes. In the not-for-profit sector, Dr. Nash served on the Board of Trustees of Catholic Healthcare Partners (now Mercy Partners), in Cincinnati, OH (1998–2008), where he was the inaugural chair of the board committee on Quality and Safety. Currently, he is on the board of Main Line Health, a four-hospital system in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he also chairs the board committee on Quality and Safety. In the for-profit sector, Dr. Nash was named to the Board of Directors for Humana, Inc., one of the nation’s largest publically traded healthcare companies, in 2009. In October 2013 he joined the board of Vestex, a privately held advanced medical textile company in Orlando, FL. In 2014 he joined the board of InfoMC, a leading information technology company in suburban Philadelphia. He is on the health care advisory board for both Arsenal Capital Partners in NYC, and the Care Innovations Validation Institute, an Intel Company in Roseville, CA.
Dr. Nash has received many awards in recognition of his achievements. He received the top recognition award from the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (1995), the Philadelphia Business Journal Healthcare Heroes Award (1997), and was named an honorary distinguished fellow of the American College of Physician Executives in 1998. In 2006 he received the Elliot Stone Award for leadership in public accountability for health data from NAHDO. Wharton honored Dr. Nash in 2009 with the Wharton Healthcare Alumni Achievement Award and in 2012 with the Joseph Wharton Social Impact Award. Also in 2012, he and JCPH received the Philadelphia Business Journal award for innovation in medical education.
Dr. Nash’s work is well known through his many publications, public appearances, “Nash on the Road” blog, and online column on MedPage Today. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and edited 23 books, including Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer, The Quality Solution, Demand Better, and most recently Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness (2nd edition). He was the inaugural Deputy Editor of Annals of Internal Medicine (1984-1989). Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of American Journal of Medical Quality, Population Health Management, P&T, and American Health and Drug Benefits.
Dr. Nash received his BA in economics (Phi Beta Kappa) from Vassar College; his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and his MBA in Health Administration (with honors) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, he was a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and Medical Director of a nine-physician faculty group practice in general internal medicine.
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Vice President, Quality and Safety, Premier, Inc., Charlotte, NC
A physician executive with extensive management experience in operations, contracting and finance, population health, quality and safety, and performance improvement, Dr. Biondolillo has a proven track record of building long-term partnerships with providers and industry stakeholders in both public and private healthcare organizations. Before joining Premier, Dr. Biondolillo was Vice President of Population Health Management at the Connecticut Hospital Association where she directed the development and implementation of state and federal innovation efforts.
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Executive Director of North America Strategy and Operations, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Houston, TX
The region’s current efforts center upon accelerating the volume to value transformation in health care, attending to the joy of the health care workforce, and nurturing burgeoning cross-sector partnerships that support the equitable achievement of health in the communities we serve.
Saranya received her MD from Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Executive Director, Health Systems and Population Health Integration, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ
O’Dowd is a graduate of Douglass College, Rutgers University, holds a MPH from Columbia University and completed a fellowship at NYU Medical Center. Her leadership to improve health outcomes has been recognized by the March of Dimes, AARP, and ASTHO.
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Chief Health Information Officer, Vice President, Population Health Informatics, Christiana Care Health System, New Castle, DE
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Chief Population Health Executive, Kennedy Health Alliance, Voorhees, NJ
He combines his medicine and business entrepreneurship background in his current role as Chief population health executive for Kennedy Health system in NJ; by overseeing several initiatives including the Kennedy Health Alliance an employed physician group, ambulatory clinics, home care, SNF, SAR, clinical integration, market development among others.
5:30 pm
Closing Remarks
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Dean, Jefferson College of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Dr. Nash is a board-certified internist who is internationally recognized for his work in public accountability for outcomes, physician leadership development, and quality-of-care improvement.
Repeatedly named to Modern Healthcare’s list of Most Powerful Persons in Healthcare, his national activities cover a wide scope. Dr. Nash is a principal faculty member for quality of care programming for the American Association of Physician Leadership in Tampa, FL and leads their academic joint venture with JCPH. He serves on the NQF Task Force on Improving Population Health and the John M. Eisenberg Award Committee for The Joint Commission. He also is a founding member of the AAMC-IQ Steering Committee, the group charged with infusing the tenets of quality and safety into medical education.
Dr. Nash has governance responsibilities for organizations in the public and private sectors. He has chaired the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (HC4) for 18 years and he is widely recognized as a pioneer in the public reporting of outcomes. In the not-for-profit sector, Dr. Nash served on the Board of Trustees of Catholic Healthcare Partners (now Mercy Partners), in Cincinnati, OH (1998–2008), where he was the inaugural chair of the board committee on Quality and Safety. Currently, he is on the board of Main Line Health, a four-hospital system in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he also chairs the board committee on Quality and Safety. In the for-profit sector, Dr. Nash was named to the Board of Directors for Humana, Inc., one of the nation’s largest publically traded healthcare companies, in 2009. In October 2013 he joined the board of Vestex, a privately held advanced medical textile company in Orlando, FL. In 2014 he joined the board of InfoMC, a leading information technology company in suburban Philadelphia. He is on the health care advisory board for both Arsenal Capital Partners in NYC, and the Care Innovations Validation Institute, an Intel Company in Roseville, CA.
Dr. Nash has received many awards in recognition of his achievements. He received the top recognition award from the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (1995), the Philadelphia Business Journal Healthcare Heroes Award (1997), and was named an honorary distinguished fellow of the American College of Physician Executives in 1998. In 2006 he received the Elliot Stone Award for leadership in public accountability for health data from NAHDO. Wharton honored Dr. Nash in 2009 with the Wharton Healthcare Alumni Achievement Award and in 2012 with the Joseph Wharton Social Impact Award. Also in 2012, he and JCPH received the Philadelphia Business Journal award for innovation in medical education.
Dr. Nash’s work is well known through his many publications, public appearances, “Nash on the Road” blog, and online column on MedPage Today. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and edited 23 books, including Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer, The Quality Solution, Demand Better, and most recently Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness (2nd edition). He was the inaugural Deputy Editor of Annals of Internal Medicine (1984-1989). Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of American Journal of Medical Quality, Population Health Management, P&T, and American Health and Drug Benefits.
Dr. Nash received his BA in economics (Phi Beta Kappa) from Vassar College; his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and his MBA in Health Administration (with honors) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, he was a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and Medical Director of a nine-physician faculty group practice in general internal medicine.