Jack Cochran

Dr. Jack Cochran practiced plastic surgery in Denver for ten years before moving to Kaiser Permanente Colorado to establish its plastic surgery program. He held leadership positions including hospital board membership and medical staff president at St. Joseph Hospital. At Kaiser Permanente, he served as a board member and physician president from 1999 to 2007, and in 2007 he became executive director and chief executive of the Permanente Federation, leading the organization nationally until 2015. During that period, Kaiser Permanente earned national recognition for excellence in clinical quality and completed the largest civilian deployment of a clinical information system, linking twenty thousand physicians and ten million members. He was repeatedly named to Modern Healthcare's list of the most influential physician executives.