Suzanne F. Delbanco, Ph.D.
Former Executive Director
The Leapfrog Group

Suzanne Delbanco was the first Executive Director of The Leapfrog Group and led the collaborative development of the strategies for reporting of safety to America’s employers. She was directing The Leapfrog Group at the time she received the Pete Conrad Global Patient Award on behalf of the organization. She was previously a senior manager at the Pacific Business Group on Health where she worked on the Quality Team. Before joining PBGH, Dr. Delbanco worked on reproductive health policy and the changing healthcare marketplace initiative at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. She has consulted on health insurance coverage in the temporary employment industry, the first statewide survey in California of Medi-Cal beneficiaries, and worked as a community liaison for Kaiser Permanente, during the establishment of one of California’s first County Organized Health Systems. Dr. Delbanco holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy and an M.P.H. from the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. Suzanne F. Delbanco is the executive director of Catalyst for Payment Reform, an independent, non-profit corporation working to catalyze employers, public purchasers, and others to implement strategies that produce higher value health care and improve the functioning of the healthcare marketplace.