David W. Baker, MD, is the executive vice president for health care quality evaluation at The Joint Commission. He is a member of the senior management team charged with developing, implementing and testing evidence-based standards, survey methods, national patient safety goals and performance measures.
Dr. Baker is responsible for The Joint Commission Department of Quality Measurement, Health Science Research and Standards and Survey Methods. He has previous experience as chief of the division of general internal medicine and geriatrics at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and deputy director of Northwestern's Institute for Public Health.
He chairs the American College of Physician's Performance Measurement Committee and is the representative to the Measures Application Partnership Coordinating Committee. Dr. Baker earned his medical degree from UCLA School of Medicine and completed his residency in internal medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.