#  The Evolution of the Health Care Quality Movement 

 



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 **November 18, 2026** 

 12:00PM - 01:00PM EST 

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 **HSDM REB Auditorium and ZOOM**  



 

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Join us for a conversation with Dr. Donald M. Berwick about the evolution of the health care quality movement and its significance for patients, clinicians and health care leaders. Berwick is the Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

## About the speaker

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Dr. Donald M. Berwick is president emeritus and senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

A pediatrician by training, Berwick has served on the faculties of Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health and on the medical staffs of Boston Children’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

His professional service includes roles as vice chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the first independent member of the American Hospital Association’s board of trustees and chair of the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He served two terms on the Institute of Medicine’s governing council, was a member of its Global Health Board and served on President Bill Clinton’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry.

In 2005, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Berwick an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his work with the British National Health Service. He is the author or co-author of more than 160 scientific articles and five books.



 

 



 

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