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, Pritzker School of Medicine, and Vice Dean of Education, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago

Brooke Buckley, MD, MBA, FACS
System Medical Director, Medical Affairs, Henry Ford Health

Andrew C. Dreyfus
Managing Director, Health Optimist, LLC 

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

Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA, FACS, FRCS(Eng), FRCS(Edin), FWACS, FAAP
Pediatric Surgeon, Dean and Chief Academic Officer, University of Miami, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Don Soffer Clinical Research Center

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

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

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

Jill Hoggard Green, PhD, RN, FAAN
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, PHD, MD, MBA, BA
Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School

Ana L. English McArdle, MBA
Retired Healthcare Executive

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, FADLN
Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive, Yale-New Haven Hospital