Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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Biographical Sketch: Joe McCannon is Senior Advisor to the Administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Prior to this he was Vice President and faculty on dissemination and large-scale improvement at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). He worked at IHI from 2001, leading organizational efforts to spread change in Africa, the United States and several other regions. Specifically, he supported IHI’s collaboration with the World Health Organization to design and amplify its 3 by 5 initiative – an effort to deliver antiretroviral drugs to 3 million people globally by the end of 2005 - and he directed the organization’s major domestic initiatives to improve patient safety, the 100,000 Lives Campaign and the 5 Million Lives Campaign, which involved over 4,000 hospitals and 70 field offices. He has advised or consulted to national quality improvement efforts in the United States, England, Japan, Canada and Denmark and to initiatives outside of health care (e.g., homelessness, corrections), as well. He started his career in the publishing industry with roles at Fast Company, The Atlantic Monthly and Outside magazine. He is a graduate of Harvard University and was a Reuters and Merck Fellow at Stanford University in 2003/2004.