Mary Jane Koren, M.D., M.P.H., is vice president for the Picker–Commonwealth Fund Long-Term Quality Improvement Program and the Dual Eligibles initiative. She began her career in geriatrics at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, where she started the geriatrics fellowship program and was assistant medical director for their home care agency. In 1986, Dr. Koren joined the faculty of the department of geriatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and was named Associate Chief of Staff for Extended Care at the Bronx Veterans Administration Medical Center. She later 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, the implications for health care of the aging of the baby boomers, and senior hunger and the Older Americans Act. She also serves on numerous advisory committees and expert panels for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and other federal agencies. Dr. Koren chairs the board for Advancing Excellence: The Long-Term Care Collaborative, and she is also on the board of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York's CHOICE program. In 2010 she was the recipient of the Terrence Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy from Grantmakers in Health.