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David L. Knowlton President and CEO New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute Mr. Knowlton has been a leader and advisor in health issues since 1977. As a Principal in Knowlton and Associates, a consulting group specializing in health care policy issues, his clients have included various governmental, health care, legal, financial and business organizations. |
Mr. Knowlton founded and served as Executive Director of the Health Care Payers Coalition of New Jersey; a non-profit corporation representing business and labor organization who provide healthcare. He is a member of the Coalition’s Board and Executive Committee and is the President and CEO of the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute. Founded by the Coalition, the Institute is dedicated to quality health care issues and is the roll-out leader in New Jersey for the Leapfrog Group. Mr. Knowlton serves on the Leapfrog Group’s Board and is a member of the National QualityForum’s Steering Committee for “Standardizing Cardiac Surgery Performance Measures Project”. Mr. Knowlton served as the Deputy Commissioner of Health for the State of New Jersey. He also serves on the Commissioner’s Long Term Care Task Force and New Jersey’s Health Data Advisory Committee and as a Board member of the Health Decisions Foundation. He has been a principal presenter on the subject of, Managed Care and HIV for the Kaiser Family Foundation AIDS Symposium and has had several articles published on Coalitions and health care management issues.