Sheila Leatherman

Sheila Leatherman, CBE is a research professor at the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a visiting fellow of the London School of Economics and distinguished associate of Darwin College at the Cambridge University, England, where she founded the Center for Health Care Policy and Evaluation. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine at the United States National Academy of Sciences since 2002 where she serves on the Global Health Board and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in the UK (since 2005). Professor Leatherman was appointed by .. President Bill Clinton in 1997 to the President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry.

She has a broad background in health care management in American state and federal health agencies, as Senior Associate at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, and as senior executive of the United HealthCare Corporation. She serves as a Trustee of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the Executive Boards of the International Society for Quality and Freedom From Hunger.

Professor Leatherman was awarded an honorary CBE in 2007.

Publications

;UK

She was commissioned by the Nuffield Trust to assess the UK Government's proposed quality reforms for the NHS in 1997-98 and evaluated the mid-term impact of the ten year quality agenda in the NHS "The Quest for Quality in the NHS" (published in 2003) and "Quest for Quality in the NHS: A Chartbook on Quality in the UK" (published in 2005).

;US

She has also co-authored a series of chartbooks on quality of health care in the U.S., commissioned by the Commonwealth Fund:
*General (2002)
*Child and Adolescent Health (2004)
*Medicare population (2005).

External links

* [http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/ecomm/files/Trust_Series_5_Evolving_Quality.pdf Nuffield Trust]
* [http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/nics/asp/download.asp?media=/nics/data/portal/00000005/content/90880001173755900203.pdf NHMRC]
* [http://www.ffhtechnical.org/news/articles/professor-sheila-leatherman-honoured-by-queen.html FFH]
* [http://www.sph.unc.edu/hpaa/sheila_leatherman_msw_642_1219.html SPH]
* [http://www.dar.cam.ac.uk/associates/leatherman/index.html Darwin College, Cambridge University]
* [http://www.commonwealthfund.org/bios/bios_show.htm?doc_id=222491 Commonwealth Fund]