The Quality Leaders Forum is a group of emerging and established quality leaders committed to improving the delivery of high-quality care in the greater New York area.
This page provides links and descriptions for previous convenings of the forum. For current and upcoming events, see the QLF landing page.
2022-2023
- April 14, 2022: Michelle Morse, MD, Chief Medical Officer at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH).
Click here for an update on the program by Dr. Morse. - June 28, 2022: Tejal Gandhi, MD, MPH, CPPS, Chief Safety and Transformation Officer at Press Ganey & Peter Silver, MD, Vice President, Chief Quality Officer, and Associate Chief Medical Officer at Northwell Health.
Click herefor a summary of the program by our two guests. - October 27, 2022: David Blumenthal, MD, President of the Commonwealth Fund.
Click here for a summary of the forum's conversation with Dr. Blumenthal. - January 19, 2023: Eric Schneider, MD, Executive Vice President of the NCQA Quality Measurement and Research Group.
Click here for a recap of our session with Dr. Schneider.
2021
- April 7, 2021: Dave A. Chokshi, MD, MSc, FACP, commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Click here for an update on the program by Dr. Chokshi. - June 23, 2021: A panel featuring Yvette Calderon, MD, MS, chair of the department of emergency medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital; lseung Cho, MD, MSc, chief quality officer at NYU Langone Health; and Eric Wei, MD, MBA, senior vice president and chief quality officer at NYC Health+Hospitals.
Click here for an update on the program by the panelists. - September 22, 2021: Maureen Bisognano, President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
Click here for a summary of the forum and detail on the “What Matters to You” campaign. - December 1, 2021: Helen Bevan, Chief Transformation Officer at NHS Horizons in the United Kingdom.
Click here for a summary of the program, focused on creating simple rules for driving change.
2020
The inaugural year of QLF consisted of a series of three programs with the following speakers:
- March 3, 2020: Thomas Lee, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Press Ganey
Click here for an update on the program led by Dr. Lee. - October 20, 2020: Maulik Joshi, DrPH, President and CEO, Meritus Health
Click here for an update on the program led by Dr. Joshi. - December 3, 2020: Margaret O’Kane, MHA, Founder and President, National Committee for Quality Assurance
Click here for an update on the program led by Margaret O'Kane.
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.
Kevin joined UHF in 2018 and supports the Quality Institute’s many initiatives with quantitative and qualitative analysis, literature review, publication development, and program coordination.
Before joining UHF Kevin provided direct social services and program evaluation in community-based organizations. He is on the junior board of advisors for Shatterproof, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to ending the addiction crisis in the United States.
Kevin holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Kansas and a Bachelor of Arts from Rockhurst University.