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DAVID KNOWLTONADVISORY BOARD MEMBER |
David Knowlton is New Jersey’s preeminent expert on healthcare quality issues. He has been a leader on healthcare issues in New Jersey for the better part of four decades.
As President and CEO of the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, he has led their advocacy on healthcare quality and the reduction of medical errors.
At the request of the Chairman of the New Jersey Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee, Senator Joseph Vitale, Mr. Knowlton chaired an ad-hoc committee of stakeholders intent upon improving the state’s healthcare access and affordability. The group’s efforts were rewarded in July of 2008 when legislation it designed to make New Jersey one of the first states in the nation to provide affordable and accessible healthcare coverage to all its citizens was signed into law by Governor Jon S. Corzine.
In the early 1990’s, Mr. Knowlton founded and served as Executive Director of the Health Care Payers Coalition of New Jersey, a non-profit corporation representing business and labor organizations who provide healthcare. He also was Chairman of The Leapfrog Group, a national group devoted to reducing medical errors, and directs Leapfrog‘s revolutionary Hospital Safety Grade program. He also is a Director and Vice Chairman of the Healthwell Foundation, a national foundation that provides copayment relief to needy persons with chronic disease.
Mr. Knowlton has served as a member of the National Quality Forum where he co-chairs the Neurology Measures Standing Committee. He currently is an advisor to the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services on quality and healthcare rationalization issues at the request of the Commissioner. He also was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton, New Jersey and as a member of the System-wide Quality Committee of the Trinity Health System.
Mr. Knowlton was the Deputy Commissioner of Health for the State of New Jersey during the administration of Governor Tom Kean. He completed his undergraduate education in psychology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and was granted a Master’s degree from Trinity College in Hartford.
As President and CEO of the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, he has led their advocacy on healthcare quality and the reduction of medical errors.
At the request of the Chairman of the New Jersey Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee, Senator Joseph Vitale, Mr. Knowlton chaired an ad-hoc committee of stakeholders intent upon improving the state’s healthcare access and affordability. The group’s efforts were rewarded in July of 2008 when legislation it designed to make New Jersey one of the first states in the nation to provide affordable and accessible healthcare coverage to all its citizens was signed into law by Governor Jon S. Corzine.
In the early 1990’s, Mr. Knowlton founded and served as Executive Director of the Health Care Payers Coalition of New Jersey, a non-profit corporation representing business and labor organizations who provide healthcare. He also was Chairman of The Leapfrog Group, a national group devoted to reducing medical errors, and directs Leapfrog‘s revolutionary Hospital Safety Grade program. He also is a Director and Vice Chairman of the Healthwell Foundation, a national foundation that provides copayment relief to needy persons with chronic disease.
Mr. Knowlton has served as a member of the National Quality Forum where he co-chairs the Neurology Measures Standing Committee. He currently is an advisor to the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services on quality and healthcare rationalization issues at the request of the Commissioner. He also was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton, New Jersey and as a member of the System-wide Quality Committee of the Trinity Health System.
Mr. Knowlton was the Deputy Commissioner of Health for the State of New Jersey during the administration of Governor Tom Kean. He completed his undergraduate education in psychology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and was granted a Master’s degree from Trinity College in Hartford.
