Jana L. Jones

Jana L. Jones is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Family Institute at Northwestern University and a member of the organization's board of directors, since 2014. Ms. Jones is passionate about partnering with others to share The Family Institute's vision to see change by connecting behavioral health to whole health.

Ms. Jones has over 25 years of entrepreneurial healthcare leadership along with a passion for the mission of The Family Institute. She began her career at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. From there she went to Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield in Rochester, New York, where, over the course of 14 years, she became a senior executive responsible for both growing the business and improving the health of the members they served. Ms. Jones then moved to Tennessee and subsequently Florida, where she created and was CEO of two healthcare companies dedicated to using information technology to improve health outcomes and to increase patients' engagement in their own health care.

Ms. Jones is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago. She has presented information on Capitol Hill and testified before the National Governors Association on topics ranging from patient-centered personal health records to collaboration for quality improvement. She also served on Governor Phil Bredesen's appointed state-wide eHealth council for three years.

She received her undergraduate degree from Penn State and a Master’s degree in Health Systems Management from Rush University in Chicago.