David Nash (physician)

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David B. Nash is an American

medical journals.[4][5][6]

Career

Nash graduated as a

(1977-1981). In the following decade he pursued clinical training, research, and teaching at several medical centers including the University of Pennsylvania Hospital (1981-1984), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1984 to 1986), and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, where he was a faculty member from 1986 to 1990.

Nash joined the Jefferson Medical College in 1990, to be named Dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health in 2008, a position that he occupied until his voluntary resignment in 2019, to remain its Founding Dean Emeritus. At Jefferson he is also Dr. Raymond C. & Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy and Special Assistant at Jefferson Health.

Nash is board certified in

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Referred as a leader in the field,[7] Nash's advocacy has focused on promoting accountability, professional autonomy, and training the coming generation of leaders to improve health care.[2] His postulates on population health issues have often sparked public interest.[8][9] Media reporters have noted Nash's beliefs that "factors like behavior, genetics, and environment are more important than medicine in determining a person's health".[10]

Along his long-standing career, Nash has exerted multiple governance responsibilities for organizations in the public and private sectors. Among many others, such positions have included memberships of the

Humana, Inc[14] Honors received by Nash include an honorary doctorate by Salus University in Philadelphia.[15]

Nash has been a chief editor of Annals of Internal Medicine,[4] American Journal of Medical Quality,[5] and Population Health Management.[6]

Works

Scientific articles

Nash has published over four hundred academic papers.[16] His research interests comprehend a wide scope within healthcare. Frequent topics in his most cited papers have been coronary bypass surgery, upper respiratory infections, clinical practice assessment, urinary tract infection, and migraine treatment outcome.[17]

Editorials

Through his writings of editorial articles and other means, for years Nash has been an advocate on many debated subjects in healthcare, including the social determinants of success, consumer's decision-making, the upscaling of services, Israel's public system as a model, and others.[18]

Books

As an author, Nash has published a number of books on healthcare subjects, below a partial list:

  • Future Practice Alternatives in Medicine, 1993[19]
  • The Physician's Guide to Managed Care, 1994[20]
  • Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer: Defining Your Strategy, 2001[21]
  • The Quality Solution: The Stakeholder's Guide to Improving Health Care, 2005, coauthored with Neil I. Goldfarb[22]
  • Health Care Quality: The Clinician's Primer, 2012, group coauthorship[23]
  • Demand Better! Revive Our Broken Healthcare, 2011, coauthored with Sanjaya Kumar[24]
  • The Healthcare Quality Book: Vision, Strategy, and Tools, Fourth Edition, 2019[25]
  • Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness, Third edition, 2019[26]

Nash has also contributed chapters to a number of other medical books.[27]

References

  1. ^ "Nash, David B." Jefferson College. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
  2. ^ a b "The 7th International Jerusalem Conference on Health Policy". The 7th International Jerusalem Conference on Health Policy. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  3. ^ Versel, Neil. "Population Health Expert: Health Reform As Simple As Changing Incentives". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
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  5. ^ a b "Publications & Resources". American College of Medical Quality. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  6. ^ a b "Population Health Management". Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  7. ^ "Wharton Leader: David Nash, WG'86". Wharton Magazine. 2010-01-01. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  8. ^ "Schooling Docs in Population Health Requires Data, Aligned Incentives". HealthITAnalytics. 2018-07-26. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  9. ^ "For truly affordable health care, we need to pay for outcomes, not services". STAT. 2017-03-29. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  10. ^ "Population Health Hopes to Capture Big Picture About Patients' Lives". NJ Spotlight. 2014-05-12. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
  11. ^ "NQF Roster and Biographies". National Quality Forum. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  12. ^ "Board of directors". Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  13. ^ "AMGA Foundation Welcomes Three New Board Members, One New Officer for 2019". AMGA. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  14. ^ "David B. Nash, MD, MBA elected to Humana's Board of Directors | Humana Healthcare". press.humana.com. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  15. ^ "Dr. David B. Nash to Receive Honorary Degree from Salus University". Salus University. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  16. ^ "Author details (Nash, David B.)". Scopus. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
  17. ^ "My NCBI Collection". PubMed. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  18. ^ "My NCBI Collection". PubMed. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
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  27. ^ "1-16 of 45 results for David B. Nash". Amazon.com.au. Retrieved 2020-06-28.