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Mark R. Chassin, MD. President and CEO of The Joint Commission.
In addition to leading The Joint Commission, Dr. Chassin is also president of TJC's Center for Transforming Healthcare. The center was established in 2009 under Dr. Chassin's leadership and works with the nation's leading hospitals and health systems to address healthcare's most critical safety and quality issues, including healthcare-associated infections, wrong-site surgery, surgical site infections and preventing avoidable heart failure hospitalizations. Prior to joining TJC, Dr. Chassin was an Edmond A. Guggenheim Professor of Health Policy and the founding chairman of the department of health policy at New York City-based Mount Sinai Medical Center and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, respectively.
