Jerod M. Loeb, PhD, is executive vice president for Research at The Joint Commission. In this capacity, he has administrative responsibility for the Joint Commission’s Department of Performance Measurement and Health Informatics and the Department of Health Policy Research. During his more than 12 years at The Joint Commission, Dr. Loeb has played a leadership role in identifying, evaluating and implementing performance measures across the wide variety of Joint Commission accreditation and certification programs. He is involved in a variety of national and international initiatives associated with performance measurement and patient safety, including those of the National Quality Forum, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the International Society for Quality in Health Care, and the World Health Organization.
Prior to coming to The Joint Commission, Loeb was assistant vice president for Science, Technology and Public Health at the American Medical Association (AMA) in Chicago where he also served as secretary of the AMA’s Council on Scientific Affairs.
After completing his graduate education at the State University of New York - Downstate Medical Center, he held fellowship positions at Harvard Medical School - Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine. Dr. Loeb has been on the faculty at Northwestern University Medical School since 1979 in both full- and part-time capacities, received tenure in 1987, and is currently adjunct professor of Physiology. He is also an adjunct associate of the Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research at Stanford University.
His writing has been published in more than 140 publications in cardiovascular medicine, risk assessment and communication, scientific ethics and health care quality. He has been the recipient of grant awards from the federal government and other sources, serves on numerous national and international advisory bodies and as a referee for several scientific journals, including JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Preventive Medicine in Managed Care.
Formerly, Dr. Loeb served on the Board of the National Patient Safety Foundation, and is currently a member of the Executive Board of the International Society for Quality in Health Care and the Water Quality and Health Care Advisory Board of the Chlorine Chemistry Council of the American Chemistry Society. He is a senior program advisor for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative. He also serves on several Steering Committees of the National Quality Forum, addressing hospital measurement, cancer care and patient safety.