Michael L. Millenson, president of Health Quality Advisors LLC, is a nationally recognized expert on improving the quality of American health care with more than a decade of consulting experience. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age, and he holds an adjunct appointment as the Mervin Shalowitz, M.D. Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. Earlier in his career, he was a health-care reporter for the Chicago Tribune and was nominated three times for a Pulitzer Prize.

Millenson has testified before Congress, lectured at the National Institutes of Health and the Harvard Business School, and served as a faculty member for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He has written for publications ranging from the British Medical Journal and Health Affairs to USA Today and World Book Encyclopedia, and he is a regular contributor to health care blogs. Millenson also serves on the board of the American Medical Group Foundation and on the editorial boards of Quality and Safety in Health Care and the American Journal of Medical Quality.