Ms. Gelrud, retired as Luminis Health’s Chief Quality and Population Health Officer, was responsible for system-wide quality, safety, infection prevention, patient experience, accreditation, care management, community outreach, performance improvement, population health, value-based programs, and progressive payment models for all entities of Luminis Health.

Prior to Luminis Health, Ms. Gelrud was responsible for care, treatment, and services for 12.4 million Kaiser Permanente members as the Senior Vice President of Kaiser Foundation’s Health Plan and Hospital Quality, Co-Executive Director of Kaiser Permanente’s Care Management Institute, and the Executive Director of the Improvement Institute in Oakland CA.

Ms. Gelrud also served as Vice President of Quality, Safety & Regulatory and Chief Nurse Executive at Kaiser Permanente’s Mid-Atlantic States Region. Prior to her roles with Kaiser, Joan was the Vice President at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital in Leonardtown, MD.

Ms. Gelrud is currently spending her time as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for children experiencing abuse or neglect, as a member of the Agency for Research Healthcare and Quality’s National Advisory Committee, and as a new member of the Maryland Health Care Commission. To help combat hospital expenditures, Joan is also on the Advisory Board for LIBERTAS, a new company working to reduce the cost of physician preference items for cardiac and other procedures.