Michael Millenson

Michael L. Millenson, president of Health Quality Advisors LLC in Highland Park, IL, is a nationally recognized expert in making American health care better, safer and more patient-centered care. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book, "Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age," as well as holding an appointment as adjunct associate professor of medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. National Public Radio called him “in the vanguard of the movement” to measure and improve American medicine. Millenson has authored numerous white papers and testified before Congress and the Federal Trade Commission. He has lectured at the National Institutes of Health and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and written for publications ranging from the British Medical Journal, Journal of General Internal Medicine and Health Affairs to USA Today and The Washington Post. His clients have included a wide range of organizations. Prior to starting his own firm, Millenson was a principal in the health-care practice of a major human resources consulting firm. Before that, as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, he was one of the first journalists to cover health care for a general interest publication. At the Tribune, he was nominated three times for a Pulitzer Prize and received an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship. Other awards include the University of Missouri Business Journalism Award and the Peter Lisagor Award of the Chicago Headline Club. He co-authored the Project Watchdog First Amendment pamphlet for the Society of Professional Journalists and served as a judge for the society’s national awards. Prior to joining the Tribune, Millenson worked for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and for trade publications in New York City and in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, where he majored in history and economics and was a member of the Economics Honor Society.