Jeffrey Brenner is the CEO of the
Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, and a
primary care physician.
Biography
Brenner is the founder of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, and was its executive director from 2006 to 2017.
The Camden Coalition provides
preventive care to high-risk patients in order to reduce healthcare costs. This practice is known as "hotspotting". The program, which began in
Camden, New Jersey
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, has since expanded to ten cities, including
Allentown, Pennsylvania
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,
Aurora, Colorado,
Kansas City, Missouri
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, and
San Diego.
Brenner won a
MacArthur Award in 2013. He left his role as executive director of the Camden Coalition in 2017 to join
UnitedHealthcare
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as Senior Vice President of Integrated Health and Social Services.
Brenner and his notable discovery of medical hotspots in impoverished communities in Camden, New Jersey, was featured in an episode of
PBS ''
Frontline'' called "The Pot Republic," in episode 12 of the 2011 season.
He became the CEO of the
Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services in 2021.
References
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Living people
21st-century American physicians
MacArthur Fellows
People from New Jersey
Vassar College alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Rutgers University alumni
Members of the National Academy of Medicine