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Dr. David Nash was elected a member of the CHP board of trustees in 1997. He is The Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy and Medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and chairman of the Department of Health Policy. Dr. Nash, a board certified internist, founded the original Office of Health Policy in 1990. From 1996-2003, he served as the first Associate Dean for Health Policy at Jefferson Medical College. In 2004, he was named co-director of the Masters Program in Public Health at Jefferson and was a finalist in the 15th Annual Discover Awards for Innovation in Public Health by Discover magazine.
Internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development and quality of care improvement, his publications have appeared in more than 100 articles in major journals, and he has edited 15 books. In 1995, he was awarded the Latiolais Prize by the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy for his leadership in disease management and pharmacoeconomics. He also received the Philadelphia Business Journal's Healthcare Heroes Award in 1997 and was named an honorary distinguished fellow of the American College of Physician Executives in 1998.
Repeatedly named by Modern Healthcare to the top 100 most powerful persons in healthcare list, his national activities include appointment to the JCAHO Advisory Committee on Performance Measurement and membership on the board of directors of the Disease Management Association of America. He continues as one of the principal faculty members for quality of care issues of the American College of Physician Executives and the developer of the ACPE Capstone Course on Quality. Dr. Nash is on the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Partnerships in Quality Education program.
Dr. Nash received his bachelor of arts in economics (Phi Beta Kappa) from Vassar College, his M.D. from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and his M.B.A. in health administration (with honors) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, he was a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and medical director of a nine-physician faculty group practice in general internal medicine. | 