Jack Cochran

Dr. Jack Cochran, MD, FACS has 25 years of leadership experience at Kaiser Permanente and served as Executive Director of the Permanente Federation from 2007 to 2015. He also served as medical director, president, and chairman of the board of the Colorado Permanente Medical Group, beginning his career at CPMG in 1990. He currently serves on the board of directors for the Alliance of Community Health Plans and the advisory board for the UCSF Global Health Group.

Dr. Cochran was named one of the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare in the eighth annual survey published by Modern Healthcare/Modern Physician in May 2012. He has also co-authored The Doctor Crisis: How Physicians Can, and Must, Lead the Way to Better Health Care. For more than 20 years, Dr. Cochran has volunteered his reconstructive surgery and consulting services in Third World countries, aiding underserved populations in Nicaragua, the Philippines, Ecuador, Tanzania, and Nepal.

He is the former president of the Consortium for Community-Centered Comprehensive Child Care (C6), a foundation that has built hospitals in East Africa.

He participated in implementing many of the priorities called for in health reform, including Kaiser Permanente’s electronic health record, the largest successful non-government clinical information systems deployment in the world.

Dr. Cochran earned his medical degree from the University of Colorado and served residencies at Stanford University Medical Center and the University of Wisconsin Hospital. He is board-certified in otolaryngology (head and neck surgery) and in plastic and reconstructive surgery.