Jonathan Jaffery, M.D., M.S., M.B.B
Fellowship Year(s): 2010-2011
Profession: Physician
Specialty:
Fellowship Details:
Association of American Medical Colleges
Senate Committee on Finance (Majority)
Wisconsin
At time of Fellowship
Jonathan Jaffery, M.D., M.S., is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Since 2008, Dr. Jaffery has served as the Chief Medical Officer for the Wisconsin Medicaid program in the Department of Health Services of the Division of Healthcare Access and Accountability. In this role he has worked toward improving access to health care throughout Wisconsin and has increased the use of evidence-based policymaking at the state level.
Dr. Jaffery’s clinical practice focuses on the care of patients with all stages of chronic kidney disease, including end-stage. In his research, he has investigated methods to improve the delivery of care for such patients, with an emphasis on enhancing the interface between primary care providers and specialists.
Dr. Jaffery received his M.D. from Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed residency training in internal medicine and a fellowship in nephrology at the University of Vermont. In 2008, he received a Master of Science degree in population health and a Master’s certificate in clinical research from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. (Updated 09.01. 10)
Current Info:
Chief Health Care Officer
Association of American Medical Colleges
Health Care Costs;Health Care Payment Models;Health Care Quality;Health Care/Health Policy Advocacy;Health Disparities;Health Reform;Medicaid;Medicare;Population Health;Private Heath Insurance;Social Determinants of Health
Since Fellowship:
Jonathan Jaffery, MD, MS, MMM, is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public
Health. Dr. Jaffery serves as SVP/Chief Population Health Officer at UW Health and as President of UW Health ACO, Inc.,
where he is responsible for the overall development, coordination, and implementation of the population health strategy. A
board-certified nephrologist, Dr. Jaffery holds a BA in Russian Literature from the University of Michigan, an MD from The
Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed an Internal Medicine Residency and Nephrology Fellowship at the
University of Vermont. A former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship and chief medical officer for the
Wisconsin State Medicaid program, Dr. Jaffery has graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and
Public Health and the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. In 2018 he was appointed to the
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.