Jonathan Sugarman

Jonathan R. Sugarman, M.D., M.P.H. was president and CEO of Qualis Health. Under his leadership, Qualis Health became a national leader in improving the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare delivery. Dr. Sugarman served as an advisor for government and private sector quality measurement and improvement initiatives. He was a frequent speaker to regional and national audiences on topics related to health care quality and accelerating health care transformation through implementation of models such as the medical home. He authored more than 75 papers and book chapters on topics such as diabetes mellitus, health problems of American Indians and quality of care among Medicare beneficiaries. He had served as a leader in a number of professional organizations, including as president of the American Health Quality Association, president of the Washington Academy of Family Physicians, and chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians Commission on Quality. He was a member of the executive committee of the American Medical Association–convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement. Dr. Sugarman was a graduate of Harvard College, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. He served as clinical professor in the departments of family medicine and epidemiology at the University of Washington. His work was recognized with the Vision Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Improving Chronic Illness Care National Program Office, the Indian Health Service Exceptional Service Award, and the Talbot Award for Compassion, Empathy and Clinical Excellence from the Seattle Indian Health Board. He was named by the World Health Organization as a member of its Network of Innovators.