Jefferson College of Population Health will host Shantanu Agrawal, MD, MPhil, President of National Quality Forum (NQF)  in "Amplifying the Patient Voice: Advancing Quality and Improving Care," on May 9, 2018 for the May 2018 forum.

This session will provide an overview of how quality measurement is evolving to address the shift to value, tools and resources available to providers to focus on quality care at the bedside, and opportunities to address health equity through quality improvement.  Dr. Agrawal will also discuss how to involve patients and families more fully in quality improvement activities.

For more information contact Vivian.Castillo@Jefferson.edu.

Meet the presenter:

Shantanu Agrawal, MD, MPhil, president and CEO of the National Quality Forum, is a board-certified emergency medicine physician who has worked in both academic and community settings, Dr. Agrawal is the former deputy administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)  and director  of one of its largest centers, the Center for Program Integrity (CPI).

In addition to leading NQF, Dr. Agrawal is co-chair of the Department of Veterans Affairs Secretarial Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Prevention Advisory Committee  and serves on the board of the Grameen Foundation, the Presidential Advisory Council of Brown University’s School of Public Health, and the editorial board of the journal Population Health Management. He is an adjunct senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and an associate clinical professor of emergency medicine at the George Washington University Hospital.