Accountable Care Organizations and Population Health Organizations

Lawrence P. Casalino is Livingston Farrand Professor of Public Health and chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Healthcare Policy and Research at Weill Cornell Medical College. Previously, he worked for twenty years as a family physician in private practice. He is the recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and has served on numerous national committees, as chair of the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, on the board of the Healthcare Research and Education Trust, and as the John Fry Fellow at the Nuffield Trust in London. He has published extensively, including recent editorials on accountable care organizations in the New England Journal of Medicine and Health Services Research.

Natalie Erb is a program manager at the Health Research and Educational Trust, where she manages national quality and patient safety improvement initiatives. She has also led the launch of a new forum of the American Hospital Association, the Symposium for Leaders in Healthcare Quality, which aims to foster collaboration among quality and patient safety professionals in pursuit of the Institute of Medicine's six aims of quality. She has recently published research on pay-for-performance and hospital quality improvement initiatives.

Maulik S. Joshi is president of the Health Research and Educational Trust and senior vice president of research at the American Hospital Association. He has a doctorate in public health and a master's in health services administration from the University of Michigan and a bachelor of science in mathematics from Lafayette College. He is editor in chief of the Journal for Healthcare Quality. Joshi coedited The Healthcare Quality Book: Vision, Strategy, and Tools (3rd ed., 2014) and coauthored Healthcare Transformation: A Guide for the Hospital Board Member (2009). He is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Department of Health Management and Policy.