Diane Stollenwerk, MPP, is the vice president of community alliances at the National Quality Forum (NQF). At NQF, she leads a team that focuses on identifying and pursuing opportunities to connect with and provide stronger support from NQF for state and community leaders engaged in measurement, reporting and other aspects of increasing transparency and accountability to improve health and health care. She also is the lead NQF staff person for the Measure Application Partnership workgroup to provide input to HHS on measures for public reporting and performance-based payment incentives to improve quality of care for the Medicare-Medicaid dual eligible population. Ms. Stollenwerk has more than 20 years experience in public affairs, strategic communication, fundraising and sustainability, product development, and organizational strategic planning. Before joining NQF, she provided consulting services for local and national organizations involved in healthcare quality improvement.

Ms. Stollenwerk was one of the first directors of the nationally-recognized Puget Sound Health Alliance (the Alliance), a coalition of employers, unions, doctors, hospitals, consumer groups, insurers, pharmaceutical companies, government, and others in the Pacific Northwest. She served as project director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality program in the Puget Sound region, was liaison to the Agency on Healthcare Research and Quality’s Chartered Value Exchange efforts, and represented the Alliance in the Washington Health Information Collaborative to promote the use of health information technology. She has also held public affairs and marketing roles at the executive level for several Catholic healthcare systems, a Blue Shield plan, and within the software and transportation industries. She has been an active board member and volunteer for several businesses and nonprofit groups, such as the Association of Washington Business, Epilepsy Foundation, American Marketing Association, and the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals.

Ms. Stollenwerk has a bachelor’s degree in English and speech communication from San Diego State University, and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University.