Dr. Corrigan is President and CEO of The National Quality Forum, a private, not-for-profit tandardsetting organization established in 1999. The NQF mission includes: setting national priorities and goals for performance improvement; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and
publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education
and outreach activities. From 1998 to 2005, Dr. Corrigan was Senior Board Director at the Institute
of Medicine (IOM). She provided leadership for IOM’s Quality Chasm Series which produced ten reports during her tenure including: To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. Prior to joining IOM in 1998, Dr. Corrigan was Executive Director of the President’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry.
Dr. Corrigan received her Doctorate in Health Services Research and Master of Industrial Engineering
degrees from the University of Michigan, and Masters’ Degrees in Business Administration and
Community Health from the University of Rochester. She is the recipient of numerous awards including: IOM Cecil Award for Distinguished Service (2002), American College of Medical Informatics Fellow (2006), American College of Medical Quality Founders’ Award (2007), Health
Research and Educational TRUST Award (2007), and American Society of Health System Pharmacists’
Award of Honor (2008). Dr. Corrigan serves on numerous boards and committees including: Quality
Alliance Steering Committee (2006 – present); Hospital Quality Alliance (2006 – present), National
Center for Healthcare Leadership (2003 – present), the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy Advisory Board (2004 – present), the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) Board of Directors (2008 – present), the eHealth Initiative Leadership Council (2008 – present), and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Healthcare Quality (AF4Q) National Advisory Committee (2007 – present).
Description
Dr. Corrigan will discuss the effectiveness of many of the tools currently being deployed to improve the quality of clinical care, specifically focusing on payfor- performance efforts.