Dr. Isham is medical director and chief health officer for HealthPartners. He is a founding board member of and key liaison to the Institute for Clinical Systems Integration, a collaborative of Twin Cities medical groups that is implementing clinical practice guidelines. Dr. Isham has been involved in quality measurement at the national and state levels. Currently, he co-chairs the National Committee on Quality Assurance’s (NCQA) committee on performance measurement which oversees the Health Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS). Dr. Isham was recently asked by The Institute of Medicine to chair their committee on Identifying Priority Areas for Health Care Improvement. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Minnesota Health Data Institute, a public-private partnership to produce health care quality information for Minnesota.