Mary Jane Koren, M.D., M.P.H. is the assistant vice president for the Picker/Commonwealth Quality of Care for Frail Elders Program and manages the Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Minority Fellowship Program in Health Policy. Prior to coming to the Fund, Dr. Koren, an internist and geriatrician, was vice president at the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation in New York City from 1997 to 2002, where she developed and directed a grants program in the field of health services and aging. She began her career in geriatrics at Montefiore Medical Center, where she started the geriatrics fellowship program and was assistant medical director for the Montefiore Home Health Care Agency. In 1987, she joined the New York State Department of Health as the Director of the Bureau of Long Term Care Services, which oversaw the state’s nursing homes, and adult day health care programs. While at the Fund, Dr. Koren has given invited testimony to congressional committees on nursing home quality and the implications for health care of an aging U.S. population. She also serves on numerous advisory committees and expert panels for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and other federal agencies, and chairs the national steering committee for the national campaign, Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes. Dr. Koren is active in the field of grantmaking: she has served on the board of Grantmakers in Aging and worked with colleagues new to the field of philanthropy through GIA’s mentorship program.