National Quality Healthcare Award Blue Ribbon Panel

In June 2006, the NQF Executive Institute convened a Blue Ribbon Panel in order to reshape the award to better align with NQF's mission to dramatically improve quality of care through evidence-based, measurement-driven performance improvement and public reporting.

Co-Chairs

William M. Dwyer
Senior Vice President
Cerner Corporation

Dean Harrison
President & CEO
Northwestern Memorial Healthcare

Panel Members

Diane P. Appleyard
President
HRDI, Inc.

David Ballard, MD, PhD, MSPH
Senior Vice President Health Care Research & Improvement,
Chief Quality Officer
Baylor Health Care System

Daniel P. Bourque
Group Senior Vice President
VHA Inc.

Joyce DuBow
Senior Analyst
American Association of Retired Persons

Debra Hadley
Executive Director
Cardinal Health Foundation

Melvin F. Hall, PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer
Press Ganey Associates, Inc.

John Penrod
Executive Director, Professional Relations
Baxter Healthcare Corp.

Denise Remus, PhD, RN
Vice President, Clinical Informatics
Premier Inc.

Sunil Sinha, MD, MBA, FACP, CHE
Senior Medical Officer, Medicare Drug Benefit Group
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Senior Examiner, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
Board member and Judge, Maryland Performance Excellence Award

Sue M. Widner
Vice President, Corporate Marketing
Abbott Laboratories

Nancy Wilson, MD, MPH
Senior Advisor Quality
AHRQ and CMS

Additional Advisors

Mary Bostwick
Healthcare Specialist, Baldrige National Quality Program
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Elizabeth Bradley, PhD
Associate Professor of Public Health & Director,
Health Management Program
Yale School of Medicine