Janet Corrigan, PhD, is the president and chief executive officer of the National Quality Forum (NQF), a private, not-for-profit membership organization established in 1999 to develop and implement a national strategy for healthcare quality measurement and reporting. The mission of the NQF is to improve the quality of American healthcare by setting national priorities and goals for performance improvement, endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance, and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs. From 1998 to 2005, Corrigan was senior board director at the Institute of Medicine (IOM), where she was responsible for the IOM Health Care Services portfolio of initiatives on quality and safety, health services organization and financing, and health insurance issues. She provided leadership for IOM's Quality Chasm series, which produced 10 reports during her tenure including To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. Corrigan received her doctorate in health services research and master of industrial engineering degrees from the University of Michigan and masters' degrees in business administration and community health from the University of Rochester. She serves on numerous boards and committees, including Quality Alliance Steering Committee, Hospital Quality Alliance, National Center for Healthcare Leadership, Council for Accountable Physician Practices Advisory Council, Health Care Solutions Group Advisory Board, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Regional Market Project Advisory Council. In 2007, she was named one of the top 25 women in healthcare by Modern Healthcare for her contributions to the industry, and in 2008 she was named to Modern Healthcare's list of the 100 most powerful people in healthcare.