President and CEO
The Joint Commission Enterprise
Jonathan Perlin, MD, PhD, MSHA is President and CEO of The Joint Commission Enterprise which includes The Joint Commission (TJC), Joint Commission Resources (JCR), Joint Commission International (JCI) and the National Quality Forum (NQF). At TJC, he has championed the "HELP Agenda," and acronym for focus on Health equity, Environmental sustainability, Learning healthcare/responsible AI, and Performance integration of quality priorities into routine operations. Previously, as President, Clinical Operations and Chief Medical Officer, HCA Healthcare, Perlin led clinicians, data scientists and researchers in developing a learning health system model for improving care across 189 hospitals. His team’s work achieved national recognition for preventing elective pre-term deliveries, reducing maternal mortality, increasing sepsis survival, and developing public-private-academic partnerships for improving infection prevention and treating COVID-19. Before HCA, Dr. Perlin was Under Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He led VA to prominence for clinical performance and national implementation of electronic health records. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), he has co-chaired initiatives on digital health, combatting opioids and climate change. He has served on numerous Boards and Commissions (including MedPAC and the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Health Advisors) and holds faculty appointments at Vanderbilt University as a Clinical Professor of Health Policy and at Virginia Commonwealth University as an Adjunct Professor of Health Administration.
Unlocking Leadership Skills for Resilient and Lower-Carbon Healthcare (ENVIR)
Sunday, March 23, 2025
9:00am – 4:00pm CT
Hot Topic: Measuring What Matters – Advancing Meaningful Health Care Performance (TUES4)
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
7:30am – 8:30am CT