Healthcare Executives Network Interviews Dr. David Nash
named the Founding Dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health (JSPH) in
2008. This appointment caps a 20-year tenure on the faculty of Thomas Jefferson
University. He is also the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of
Health Policy. JSPH provides innovative educational programming designed to
develop healthcare leaders for the future. Its offerings include Masters
Programs in Public Health, Healthcare Quality and Safety, Health Policy and
Applied Health Economics and Outcomes Research. JSPH also offers a doctoral
program in Population Health Science.
board-certified internist who is internationally recognized for his work in
outcomes management, medical staff development and quality-of-care improvement.
In 1995 he received the top recognition award from the Academy of Managed Care
Pharmacy. He received the Philadelphia Business Journal Healthcare
Heroes Award in October 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. In 2009 Dr. Nash received the Wharton Healthcare Alumni Achievement
Award. In 2012, he received both the Joseph Wharton Social Impact Award and the
Philadelphia Business Journal Medical Education Innovator of the Year
named to Modern Healthcare’s list of Most Powerful Persons in
Healthcare, his national activities cover a wide scope. He serves as an
Industry Advisor for the VHA Center for Applied Healthcare Studies and he is a
member of the Board of Directors of the Population Health Alliance (formerly
CCA). Dr. Nash is a principal faculty member for quality of care programming
for the American College of Physician Executives in Tampa, Florida, and leads
the academic joint venture between ACPE and the JSPH.
consultant to organizations in both the public and private sectors. He has
chaired the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost
Containment Council (HC4) for more than a decade and he is widely recognized as
a pioneer in public reporting of outcomes. In December 2009 he was named to the
Board of Directors for Humana Inc., one of the nation’s largest publicly traded
healthcare companies. He recently retired from the Board of Endo Health
Solutions, a publicly traded pharmaceutical company headquartered in Dublin,
Ireland. In October 2013 he joined the board of Vestagen, a privately held
advanced medical textile company in Orlando, FL. He is on the Board of Main
Line Health – a four hospital system in suburban Philadelphia, PA. From
1998–2008, he served on the Board of Trustees of Catholic Healthcare Partners
in Cincinnati, Ohio where he chaired the Board Committee on Quality and Safety.
public appearances, his “Nash on the Road” blog, and an online column for
MedPage Today, Dr. Nash reaches more than 100,000 persons every month. He has
authored more than 100 articles in major journals. He has edited 22 books,
including Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer, The Quality Solution,
Governance for Healthcare Providers, Health Care Quality: The Clinician’s
Primer, Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness, and most recently,
Demand Better. From 1984 to 1989 he was Deputy Editor of Annals of Internal
Medicine. Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of four major national journals
including American Journal of Medical Quality, Population Health Management,
P&T, and
American Health and Drug Benefits.
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.
http://Jefferson.edu/population_health/ and his blog at http://nashhealthpolicy.blogspot.com
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