Committee Involvement:
Mentorship & Professional Development Committee

Bio: Brian W. Lindberg is a Washington, DC-based advocate, policy educator, and lobbyist. He serves as a public policy advisor to aging, health care, and special needs advocacy organizations and as Executive Director of the Consumer Coalition for Quality Health Care. Throughout his career, Brian has developed national policy guidelines, legislation, and strategic plans for organizations on issues ranging from health and serious illness care, long-term care, to caregiving, social isolation, civic engagement, elder justice, community-based services, and housing, all with the goal of improving the systems that support optimal aging and quality care for all.

Brian is a social worker and human services manager by training and after finishing his Master’s degree, Brian worked for Pennsylvania’s junior senator (at that time), the late Arlen Specter. Before long, he had joined the Senate Special Aging Committee as professional staff to Chairman John

Heinz, followed by several years on the House Select Committee on Aging, completing his Hill work as staff director of the Subcommittee on Housing and Consumer Interests.

Brian helped create the Consumer Coalition for Quality Health Care in 1993, which continues to advocate for health care system reform that provides meaningful consumer information, strong due process protections, a consumer advocate program, and a system for independent quality oversight. As Executive Director of the Consumer Coalition, Brian was involved in the formation of the National Quality Forum, having been appointed by Vice President Gore to serve on the NQF planning committee and board of directors.

Brian’s legislative accomplishments include provisions in laws addressing the Older Americans Act, geriatrics training, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, older Native Americans, caregivers, Medicare, pensions, long-term care, elder abuse, guardianship, social isolation, housing, and aging research and evaluation.

He worked on the 1995, 2005, and 2015 White House Conferences on Aging, as well as with AARP, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, The John A. Hartford Foundation, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and the New York Academy of Medicine.

Brian has served on many boards and advisory panels, including for the Institute of Medicine, CMS’s National Medicare Education Program, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, and the Temple University Board of Trustees. Currently, he serves on the NQF Patient Experience and Function Standing Committee and the Board of Visitors of the College of Public Health at Temple University.