Anne-Marie is a licensed primary care physician with over 30 years of experience in quality improvement. She joined UHF in 2015 to spearhead the activities of the newly-created Quality Institute and now serves as UHF’s Senior Medical Officer, providing strategic guidance to execute the Quality Institute’s mission and goals, and identifying funding and collaborative opportunities. Anne-Marie also provides expertise on measurement, performance improvement, system redesign, and patient-centered care to several of the Quality Institute’s initiatives and serves as main lead on its projects. She is also on the faculty of UHF’s Clinical Quality Fellowship Program.
Before joining UHF Anne-Marie was vice-president, Delivery System Reform at the Commonwealth Fund. She also served as assistant professor of medicine at Harvard University and as the director of the Office for Clinical Effectiveness/Process Improvement at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. In the 1990s she worked as associate medical director at the Massachusetts Quality Improvement Organization. She has been an assistant professor of Medicine and Public Health at Cornell University since 2006.
Anne-Marie is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She holds a Bachelor of Science, Honors, a Master of Science, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and a medical degree (MDCM), all from McGill University. She also earned a Master of Science in Health Policy & Management from Harvard School of Public Health. She was a Fellow at New England Medical Center, Tufts, Boston, Clinical Decision Making, from 1988-1989; a Fellow at Institute for the Improvement of Medicine and Health, New England Medical Center, Tufts, Boston Health Services Research, from 1989-1990, and a Fellow at New York Academy of Medicine from 2005-Present.
Anne-Marie is licensed to practice medicine in Massachusetts, the Province of Quebec, and New York State. She is a board member of the Massachusetts Medical Society & Alliance Charitable Foundation, a volunteer member of the NYS Medical Reserve Corp, and a volunteer chaplain at Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Joan leads UHF’s Quality Institute team and initiatives, focused on building quality capacity in health care organizations, engaging patients and families in care, and profiling quality. She directs the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program in partnership with Greater New York Hospital Association and develops and leads projects and learning collaboratives focused on implementing best practices and improving delivery of care.
Before joining UHF in 2017, Joan was director of quality improvement for Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset, a 300-bed community hospital in New Jersey. There she managed the quality services department and was responsible for Joint Commission accreditation, CMS/TJC quality reporting, hospital performance improvement initiatives, the medical peer review process, and reporting of serious adverse events and the root cause analysis process. Earlier in her career she was director of standards for St. Barnabas Medical Center, also in New Jersey, and director of Accreditation and Standards Compliance and director of Program Development and Planning for NYU Langone Medical Center.
Joan holds a Master of Business Administration in Health Care Management from Boston University and a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy from Tufts University. She is a Certified Professional in Health Quality and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.
Lynn Rogut is the director of quality and team leader of UHF’s Quality Institute, and she is involved in several key projects central to UHF’s work on improving health care quality in New York. She has long-standing interests in patient-centered care, including improving health care quality from the patient’s perspective, strengthening the evidence base in medical care, and supporting the dissemination of innovative health policy research. She also has extensive experience in managing grant solicitations, reviews, and awards.
Prior to joining UHF, Ms. Rogut was a consultant to non-profit institutions and foundations and served for 11 years as the deputy director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research program. Earlier in her career, her positions spanned a range of health care services from high tech to high touch: Through her role as executive director of the New York Center for Liver Transplantation, she was involved in the launch of liver transplant services in New York State, and in an earlier assignment at UHF as project director of the Patient-Centered Care Consortium, she helped introduce the concept and practices of patient-centered care to staff at 15 New York City hospitals. Before that, she served as director of planning at SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
She holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in city and regional planning from Rutgers University.
