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Impact Statements
Herbert Pardes, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System
 "What we in healthcare have always known is that caring for patients requires collaboration. The last several years have expanded our concept of collaboration from multiple clinicians to multiple participants, including other providers, the insurance industry, local and national government and the public. Only with all of these entities can we improve the health system. Sharing information is central to collaboration and the Connecting for Health Common Framework gives all of us a set of guidelines we can follow to share data in our communities, throughout the region and the nation. The Common Framework has been most helpful as we build a health information exchange called NYCareConnect that links hospitals, long term care facilities, neighborhood physicians and clinics. The Framework gave us a starting point to have the conversation necessary to share data in a secure and useful way. I've been proud to help lead Connecting for Health's effort to convene key stakeholders to forge a common direction that will help all of us to better serve patients." Dr. Herbert Pardes is president and CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System. Nationally recognized for his broad expertise in education, research, clinical care and health policy, Dr. Pardes is an ardent advocate of support for academic medical centers, humanistic care and the power of technology and innovation to transform 21st-century medicine. A noted psychiatrist, Dr. Pardes served as director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and U.S. Assistant Surgeon General during the Carter and Reagan Administrations. He was also president of the American Psychiatric Association. In 1984, he was named chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and in 1989, was appointed Vice President for Health Sciences for Columbia University and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1999, Dr. Pardes was chosen to lead NewYork-Presbyterian. Since that time, the Hospital has received numerous honors and recognition, including its current sixth place position on the U.S.News & World Report "America's Best Hospitals" Honor Roll and number-one overall Best Hospital in New York magazine's 2006 "Best Hospitals" survey. He has been appointed to serve on commissions related to health policy by Presidents Bush and Clinton and negotiated and conducted international collaborations with a variety of countries including India, China and the former Soviet Union. Dr. Pardes has earned numerous awards and accolades, including election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health and the U.S. Army Commendation Medal.
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