Commonwealth Fund president to step down
Karen Davis, the president of the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation promoting a high-functioning healthcare system, has announced that she will step down from her position on Dec. 31, 2012. Davis has led the foundation since 1995.
In a press release issued earlier this week about Davis’ departure, James Tallon, the Fund’s Board of Directors chair, called Davis “one of the outstanding thinkers and leaders of health care reform” and said that her leadership “positioned the Commonwealth Fund to make a major contribution to the recent health care reform debate and to the implementation of those reforms.”
Among Davis’ long list of accomplishments, as the administrator of the Health Resources Administration, she was the first woman to head a U.S. Public Health Service agency and has published a number of books, including “Health Care Cost Containment” and “Health and the War on Poverty.”
Davis told Kaiser Health News that she is still deciding what she’ll do next. The Fund's board is conducting a search to replace her.
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