Bruce Siegel MD, MPH

Since joining America’s Essential Hospitals in 2010, Siegel has used his extensive background in health care management, policy, and public health to achieve the association’s strategic vision of its members as integrated delivery systems and leaders in access and quality.

He served previously as Center for Health Care Quality director and health policy professor at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. Before that, Siegel was president and CEO of two-member systems: Tampa General Healthcare and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. He also served as New Jersey’s commissioner of health.

Among his many accomplishments, Siegel led groundbreaking work on quality and equity with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is the past-chair of the National Quality Forum Board and the National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality. Modern Healthcare has recognized him as one of the “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare” from 2011 to 2019; one of the “50 Most Influential Physician Executives” from 2012 to 2018; and among the “Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare” in 2014 and 2016. He also was named one of the “50 Most Powerful People in Healthcare” by Becker’s Hospital Review in 2013 and 2014.