DUBLIN, Ohio, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardinal Health today announced that James J. Mongan, M.D. has joined the company's board of directors, effective immediately, and will serve on the board's audit committee.
From 1981 to 1996, Mongan served as the executive director of Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo., and also served as dean of the University of Missouri School of Medicine from 1988 to 1996. Early in his career, Mongan held various positions with the federal government including staff member with the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and associate director of the White House Domestic Policy staff.
Mongan is the co-author of the recently published book, Chaos and Organization in Health Care, which offers an optimistic prescription to improve the inefficiencies in the U.S. health care system. He has also received numerous awards and industry recognition, including being named by Modern Healthcare as the #1 most powerful physician executive in 2008. He had been ranked in the top 10 on this list since 2004. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, chairman of the Commonwealth Fund's Commission on a High Performance Health System and is a past trustee for the board of the American Hospital Association. Mongan also serves as a professor of health care policy and social medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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