Dr. Perlin named to Modern Healthcare’s 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives for 2025

Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, president and CEO, The Joint Commission and Joint Commission International, has been recognized as one of Modern Healthcare’s 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives for 2025.

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.

“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.”

Over the past year, Dr. Perlin has overseen strategic alliances with the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ), which shares The Joint Commission’s vision of advancing global healthcare quality and safety, and ARCHANGELS, which brought a shared focus on supporting and creating upward mobility for unpaid caregivers to the forefront. He also 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.

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