Pat Merryweather-Arges serves as Executive Director of Project Patient Care (PPC) where she is a co-leader of all PPC initiatives, including its work in federal healthcare transformation, advocating authentic patient and family engagement across all healthcare settings, and PPC organizational development activities.  Prior to PPC, she served as the Executive Director of Medicare QIN-QIO for five states and Senior Vice President of the Illinois Hospital Association.  Pat serves on several government and not-for-profit healthcare, health information, and global health  boards locally, nationally, and international.