President and CEO, Network for Excellence in Health Innovation, Senior Policy Advisor, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Policy Analyst, PBS NewsHour and Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs (2008-2013)
Susan Dentzer
Travels From:
IAD - Washington DC
Primary Topic Category:
Healthcare
Secondary Topic Category:
Journalists / News Media / Global Outlook / Current Events
Susan Dentzer At A Glance:
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Susan Dentzer is one of the most significant health policy experts and leaders in the United States. She is a visiting fellow at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. Her work at Duke-Margolis focuses on updating the health system to include innovations in care, such as virtual care and workforce reconfiguration. Within the Center, she works on mechanisms to address some of the most critical problems in health policy, including better solutions for rural health care and improved preparedness for advancements in care for conditions such as Alzheimer's and other dementias.
Before joining Duke-Margolis, she served as the President and CEO of NEHI (Network for Excellence in Health Innovation), where she led efforts to improve healthcare quality and innovation across various sectors. Dentzer has also held important positions as senior policy advisor at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and editor-in-chief of the health policy journal Health Affairs. As an on-air Health Correspondent for PBS NewsHour, she presents incisive analysis and reporting of health policy developments.
Dentzer is a prolific author and commentator who has written in Modern Healthcare, the New England Journal of Medicine, and NEJM Catalyst.
She is the editor and principal author of the book "Health Care Without Walls: A Roadmap for Reinventing U.S. Health Care," with a new vision of how health care can be delivered to all patients. Of keynote speeches, she is in great demand due to the knowledge of the panels about the future of health care, policy change, and innovation that will change the look of health care. Besides her other professional roles, Dentzer is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. She also serves on the boards of the International Rescue Committee and the Public Health Institute. She is a Dartmouth College trustee emerita, having served on the board for more than two decades. Susan Dentzer is a very accomplished, broadly connected professional in health policy and journalism who, at the helm, gets the lead role in shaping the new future of American health care.
