Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP
President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare
Improvement (IHI), an organization that Dr. Berwick co-founded and led
as President and CEO for 18 years. He is one of the nation's leading
authorities on health care quality and improvement. In July, 2010,
President Obama appointed Dr. Berwick to the position of Administrator
of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which he held
until December, 2011. A pediatrician by background, Dr. Berwick has
served as Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Health Care Policy at the
Harvard Medical School, Professor of Health Policy and Management at
the Harvard School of Public Health, and as a member of the staffs of
Boston's Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Massachusetts General
Hospital, and the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He has also served as
vice chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the first
"Independent Member" of the Board of Trustees of the American Hospital
Association, and chair of the National Advisory Council of the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality. An elected member of the Institute
of Medicine (IOM), Dr. Berwick served two terms on the IOM’s governing
Council and was a member of the IOM’s Global Health Board. He served on
President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and
Quality in the Healthcare Industry. He is a recipient of numerous
awards, including the 1999 Joint Commission’s Ernest Amory Codman Award,
the 2002 American Hospital Association’s Award of Honor, the 2006 John
M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for Individual Achievement
from the National Quality Forum and the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the 2007 William B. Graham
Prize for Health Services Research, the 2007 Heinz Award for Public
Policy from the Heinz Family Foundation, the 2012 Gustav O. Lienhard
Award from the IOM, and the 2013 Nathan Davis Award from the American
Medical Association. In 2005, he was appointed “Honorary Knight
Commander of the British Empire” by the Queen of England, the highest
honor awarded by the UK to non-British subjects, in recognition of his
work with the British National Health Service. Dr. Berwick is the author
or co-author of over 160 scientific articles and four books. He also
serves now as Lecturer in the Department of Health Care Policy at
Harvard Medical School, and as a Senior Fellow at the Center for
American Progress.
Areas of Expertise:
Visionary, leadership, motivational, sustaining.
