Dr. Jonathan B. Perlin Named to Modern Healthcare’s 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives for 2025
(OAKBROOK TERRACE, Illinois, June 9, 2025) – The Joint Commission is proud to announce that Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, president and chief executive officer, The Joint Commission and Joint Commission International, has been named one of Modern Healthcare’s 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives.
The program honors clinicians in executive roles who are selected by the senior editors of Modern Healthcare for their exceptional achievements in driving innovation, improving outcomes, serving their communities, and demonstrating exemplary leadership both within and beyond their organizations.
This year’s program recognizes Dr. Perlin for his leadership in accelerating meaningful change across healthcare by leveraging performance data, reducing burden, and uniting industry stakeholders to continuously improve patient safety and quality of care.
Through his innovative and data-driven approach to quality improvement, Dr. Perlin is transforming healthcare accreditation and certification by empowering organizations to focus on what matters most: delivering excellent patient care.
Under his leadership, The Joint Commission eliminated or consolidated more than 400 requirements to help streamline the accreditation process and reduce burden. It also introduced the SAFER® Peer Benchmarking Tool, enabling hospitals to compare their accreditation performance with similar-sized organizations and pinpoint specific areas for improvement.
In 2024, Dr. Perlin oversaw strategic alliances with the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) and ARCHANGELS, which brought a shared focus on supporting and creating upward mobility for unpaid caregivers to the forefront. Additionally, Dr. Perlin helped facilitate a new collaboration with Advocate Health—one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health systems—to enhance patient safety and quality of care across its 69 hospitals through a systemwide approach that aims to set a new industry standard for providing consistent, high-quality care to patients and communities at scale.
“Becoming a clinician doesn’t automatically prepare one for a leadership role, helping to guide an organization or an industry. The 50 clinicians chosen this year as the most influential, some newcomers and some we have recognized previously, are having an oversized impact,” said Mary Ellen Podmolik, editor-in-chief of Modern Healthcare. “Their work is benefiting their own teams in terms of clinical advancements and financial results and is leading to better patient outcomes.”
For more information about the 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives program, visit https://www.modernhealthcare.com/awards/50-most-influential-clinical-executives-2025.
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