Francis J. Crosson, MD
Executive Director
The Permanente Foundation

Dr. Crosson is the Executive Director of The Permanente Federation, the national organization of the Permanente Medical Groups, the physician component of Kaiser Permanente.  Dr. Crosson serves as co-chair, with Mr. George Halvorson, CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals, of the Kaiser Permanente Program Group (KPPG), the Kaiser Permanente joint management body.  Dr. Crosson also serves as the CEO and President of The Permanente Company, which carries out the Federation’s business functions. 

Dr. Crosson was a member of the California Medical Association Board of Trustees, from 1997-2006.  He is currently (2006), Chair of the Governing Board of the American Medical Group Association (AMGA).  In 2002, Dr. Crosson founded and now chairs the Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP), an AMGA affiliate.  CAPP is an alliance of 34 of the nation’s largest multi-specialty group practices which promotes delivery system improvement in the United States. In 2004, Dr. Crosson was appointed to a three-year term on the congressional Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC).  He is a graduate of the Kaiser Permanente Executive Program at Stanford Business School.

Dr. Crosson received an undergraduate degree in Political Science and, in 1970, a medical degree from Georgetown University.  He completed a residency in Pediatrics at the New England Medical Center Hospitals and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School.  He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics.  He served in the U.S. Navy for two years at Bethesda Naval Hospital before joining The Permanente Medical Group in 1977, where he practiced pediatrics and served in numerous leadership and administrative positions.  He assumed the leadership of The Permanente Federation in 1997.