Board of Commissioners

The Board consists of 21 voting members, including physicians, administrators, nurses, educators, and safety, quality, and innovation experts. The Board includes representatives from each of the Joint Commission’s Corporate Members: American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, American College of Physicians, American College of Surgeons, and American Dental Association. In addition, there are seven public/at-large members and, as an ex-officio member, the Joint Commission/Joint Commission Resources President and Chief Executive Officer.

There are five standing Board committees: Enterprise Audit and Firewall Oversight; Executive; Enterprise Finance; Governance; and Enterprise Human Resources and Executive Compensation.

Chair: Michael Suk, MD, JD, MPH, MBA, FACS
Chief Physician Officer, Geisinger System Services, Geisinger Health System

Vice Chair: Eric Langshur 
Founder and Managing Partner, Abundant Venture Partners 

Vineet Arora, MD, MAPP
Herbert T. Abelson Professor of Medicine and Dean for Medical Education of the Biological Sciences Division, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago

Brooke Mattern Buckley, MD, MBA, FACS, DipABLM
System Medical Director of Medical Affairs, Henry Ford Health, and Chief Medical Officer, Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital 

Andrew C. Dreyfus
Managing Director, Health Optimist, LLC 

Melinda L. Estes, MD, MBA
Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Saint Luke’s Health System

Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA, FACS, MAMSE, FRCSEng(Hon), FWACS, FAAP
Dean and Chief Academic Officer, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Susan Fox, MBA, BSN
President and Chief Executive Officer, White Plains Hospital

James D. Grant, MD, MBA, FASA
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Christopher A. Hart, MEng, JD
Founder, Hart Solutions LLC

Jill Hoggard Green, PhD, RN
Healthcare Executive

Lenworth M. Jacobs, Jr., MBBS, MPH, DSc (Hon), FACS, FWACS (Hon)
Professor of Surgery and Professor of Traumatology and Emergency Medicine, University of Connecticut

Vivian S. Lee, MD, PhD, MBA
Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School, and Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School 

Ana L. English McArdle, MBA
Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Improving Value in Health Care 

Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, MSHA, MACP, FACMI
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Joint Commission and Joint Commission Resources

Ankita Sagar, MD, MPH, FACP
System Vice President of Clinical Standards and Variation Reduction, CommonSpirit Health

Eric (Rick) Schlesinger, MBA, BA
Board Member and Advisor, Entrepreneurial Healthcare Companies and Not-for-Profit Organizations 

Marvin (James) Strohschein, Jr., DDS
Chief Dental Officer, La Pine Community Health Center

Harsh K. Trivedi, MD, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer, Sheppard Pratt

Willie Underwood, III, MD, MSc, MPH, FACS
Chief Medical and Research Officer, Buffalo Center for Health Equity

Ena M. Williams, PhD, MBA, RN, CENP, FAAN
Senior Vice President/Chief Nursing Officer, Yale-New Haven Hospital