Maureen Bisognano

Board Member

Maureen Bisognano, President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), previously served as IHI’s President and CEO for five years, after serving as Executive Vice President and COO for 15 years. She is a prominent authority on improving health care systems, whose expertise has been recognized by her elected membership to the National Academy of Medicine (IOM), among other distinctions. Ms. Bisognano advises health care leaders around the world, is a frequent speaker at major health care conferences on quality improvement and is a tireless advocate for change. She chaired the Advisory Board of the Well Being Trust, co-chaired the Massachusetts Coalition for Serious Illness Care with Dr. Atul Gawande, and serves on the boards of Indiana University Health and Nursing Now. She founded the global “What Matters to You?” movement and leads with others the international movement “Kindness in Healthcare”. Prior to joining IHI, she served as CEO of the Massachusetts Respiratory Hospital and Senior Vice President of The Juran Institute.