President/CEO
The Joint Commission Enterprise
Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, became the seventh President and Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Commission enterprise on March 1, 2022. The Joint Commission enterprise includes Joint Commission, Joint Commission International (JCI), Joint Commission Resources (JCR), and the National Quality Forum (NQF).
Dr. Perlin has revitalized Joint Commission through the introduction of new programs addressing digital technologies and AI, with a focus on benchmarking and the sharing of best practices across the healthcare ecosystem. Recently, he led the most significant, comprehensive evolution of the accreditation process since the Medicare program was established 60 years ago.
Previously, as President, Clinical Operations, and Chief Medical Officer, HCA Healthcare, Dr. Perlin led clinicians, data scientists and researchers in developing a learning health system model for improving care at the system’s 189 hospitals and 2,200 sites of care. His team’s work achieved national recognition for preventing elective pre-term deliveries, reducing maternal mortality, using artificial intelligence to improve sepsis survival, and developing public-private-academic partnerships for improving infection prevention and treating COVID-19. Dr. Perlin’s CHARGE consortium partnered HCA, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and academia to create a reusable platform for accelerated research using real-world evidence from the care of over 400,000 COVID inpatients.
Before HCA, Dr. Perlin was Under Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), where he led the Veterans Health Administration to national prominence for full implementation of a national electronic health record and benchmark clinical performance. He has served on numerous federal commissions, including as a Congressional Budget Office Health Advisor, a member of MedPAC (Medicare Payment Advisory Commission), and as chair of the VA Special Medical Advisory Group. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), he has co-chaired NAM action collaboratives on digital health and has provided leadership for major Academy initiatives.
Dr. Perlin’s board service includes George Washington University, Columbia University’s Health Policy and Management program, Vanderbilt University’s School of Engineering, and he served as a Trustee of Meharry Medical College for 15 years. Perennially recognized as one of the most influential leaders in healthcare, Dr. Perlin maintains faculty appointments at Vanderbilt University as a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Health Policy and at Virginia Commonwealth University as an Adjunct Professor of Health Administration.
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
4:30pm - 5:30pm CT