Dr. Nash, a board certified internist, is the founding Director, Office of Health Policy and Clinical Outcomes at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy and Medicine at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. In December 1996, Dr. Nash assumed additional responsibilities as the first Associate Dean for Health Policy at Jefferson Medical College.

Nationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development and quality-of-care improvement, his publications have appeared in four dozen articles in major journals and in 10 edited books, including The Physician’s Guide to Managed Care by Aspen Publishers, and A Systems Approach to Disease Management by the American Hospital Publishing Company. In 1995, he was awarded the Clifton Latiolais Prize by the American Managed Care Pharmacy Association for his leadership in disease management, formulary design, and pharmacoeconomics. He also received the Philadelphia Business Journal Health Care Hero Award in October 1997.

Repeatedly named by Faulkner & Gray as one of the most influential policy makers in academic medicine, Dr. Nash’s national activities include appointment to the JCAHO National Performance Council, Vice Chair of the AMA Physician Measurement Advisory Committee, and the Foundation for Accountability (FACCT) Board – the three key national groups focusing on quality measurement and improvement. Recently, he completed his tenure as the Chairman of both the Center for Clinical Quality Evaluation (a not-for-profit research group in Washington, DC) and the Clinical Evaluative Sciences Council of the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) in Chicago, Illinois. He continues as one of the principal faculty members for quality of care issues of the American College of Physician’s Track of the National Managed Health Care Congress and has done so since its inception in 1988. Dr. Nash was recently appointed as the Associate Director of The Pew Charitable Trusts-Managed Care Education Program, responsible for liaison activities with all interested outside parties. Finally, he is a member of the board of trustees of Catholic Health Care Partners in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dr. Nash is a consultant to organizations in both public and private sectors including the Technical Advisory Group of the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (a group he has chaired for the last three years), The Hartford Foundation, the Federal Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and numerous corporations within the pharmaceutical industry. He is on board of directors and advisory board of several national biotechnology and patient diagnostic firms. He is on the editorial board of the three major peer reviewed journals on medical quality management and three additional journals concerned with the cost effectiveness of pharmaceuticals. From 1984 to 1989, he was Deputy Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine, at the American College of Physicians. Currently, he is Editor of New Medicine, and a member of the Medical Economics editorial board.

Dr. Nash received his BA in economics from Vassar College; his MD from University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry; and his MBA in Health Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and Medical Director of a nine physician faculty group practice in general internal medicine.