David Lansky, PhD, has joined the Markle Foundation as Director, Health in September 2004. Prior to this position, Dr. Lansky served as FACCT's president from its inception in 1995. For more than twenty years, Lansky has been a proponent of a more responsive and accountable health care system. He is a nationally recognized expert in accountability and quality measurement and, as a result, has served as a board member or advisor to numerous health care projects and programs. Some of these include the National Quality Forum, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, National Patient Safety Foundation, The Leapfrog Group, and President Bush's 2002 Economic Forum.

Prior to FACCT, Lansky was a senior policy analyst for the Jackson Hole Group during the national health reform debate of 1993-94. He also led the Center for Outcomes Research and Education at Oregon-based Providence Health System. In this capacity he was responsible for outcomes research, measurement of consumer satisfaction, health risk and health status assessment, development of electronic member and patient records, and communicating with purchasers and the larger community about health care quality.