Suzanne Delbanco, PhD
Executive Director; Catalyst for Payment Reform
Suzanne F. Delbanco is Executive Director of the Catalyst for Payment Reform, Formerly, she was President of the Health Care Division at Arrowsight, Inc., a web-based application services provider, improving practices, comliance and employee morale in safety-sensitive industries, such as food processing, food services, manufacturing and health care. Suzanne serves on the Advisory Committee to the Director and the National Biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She additionally serves on the boards of Bridges to Excellence and Prometheus Payment, Inc., the Anvita Health Advisory Council, the Center for Payment Reform and participates in the Healthcare Executives Leadership Network. From 2000-2007, Suzanne was the founding CEO of The Leapfrog Group. The Leapfrog Group uses the collective leverage of its large corporate and public members to initiate breakthrough improvements in the safety, quality, and affordability of health care for Americans. Before joining Leapfrog, Suzanne was a senior manager at the Pacific Business Group on Health where she worked on the Quality Team. Prior to PBGH, Suzanne worked on reproductive health policy and the changing healthcare marketplace initiative at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Suzanne holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy and a M.P.H. from the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.
