Don Berwick Nana Twum-Danso The Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is also former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. A pediatrician by background, Dr. Berwick has served on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, and on the staffs of Boston's Children's Hospital Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He has also served as Vice Chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force, the first "Independent Member" of the American Hospital Association Board of Trustees, and Chair of the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He served two terms on the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) Governing Council, was a member of the IOM's Global Health Board, and served on President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry. Recognized as a leading authority on health care quality and improvement, Dr. Berwick has received numerous awards for his contributions. In 2005, he was appointed "Honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire" by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his work with the British National Health Service. Dr. Berwick is the author or co-author of over 160 scientific articles and six books. He currently serves as Lecturer in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Follow Don on Twitter

Nana Twum-Danso, MD, MPH, FACPM, ​Senior Vice President, Global, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), leads all global strategy and client development, with top-line revenue responsibility. Previously she was Managing Director for Health at The Rockefeller Foundation, overseeing a strategy designed to transform the practice of public health through data science. She is a public health and preventive medicine physician with 20 years of experience in health policy, practice, strategy, monitoring, learning, evaluation, research, and philanthropy at local, national, and international levels. Dr. Twum-Danso is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She worked at the Task Force for Global Health in Atlanta, Georgia; was Director of IHI’s nationwide CQI initiative in Ghana; Senior Program Officer in the MNCH Department at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; independent consultant; and Founder and CEO of MAZA, a social enterprise that provided on-demand health care transportation for pregnant women and sick infants in remote areas of Ghana. She also served on technical advisory committees for the World Health Organization, the US National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and the Canadian International Development Research Centre. Dr. Twum-Danso received her undergraduate and medical education from Harvard University and her public health and preventive medicine residency training from Emory University.  Follow Nana on Twitter.