Dr. Jay Crosson is Senior Healthcare Advisor at Health2047. He is the immediate past Chairman of the Congressional Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). Previously, Jay completed 35 years of clinical and executive experience with Kaiser Permanente. He was the founding Executive Director of The Permanente Federation, the national organization of the Permanente Medical Groups, the physician component of Kaiser Permanente. He currently is Senior Lecturer at the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine in Pasadena California. He is Past Chair of the Governing Board of the American Medical Group Association (AMGA), founded the Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP), was a Group Vice-President of the American Medical Association, and also served on the National Advisory Committee of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). He received his medical degree from Georgetown University. He completed a residency in Pediatrics at the New England Medical Center Hospitals and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School. He is a graduate of the Kaiser Permanente Executive Program at Stanford Business School.