John M. Clymer

Executive Director, National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention (Ex-Officio)

John Clymer leads the National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention, a nonpartisan, nonprofit catalyst for multi-sector collaboration to improve cardiovascular and metabolic health for all.  Under John’s leadership since 2012, the National Forum has made a measurable impact on population health while increasing its revenues sevenfold. National Forum-led collaborations have helped drive policy changes in 32 states that expanded people’s access to evidence-based healthcare, and implementation of programs, policies, and infrastructure changes proven to improve health in communities in 39 states.

Additionally, John is a fellow of the Institute for Health Policy and Leadership at Loma Linda University, a guest lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the senior member of the Community Preventive Services Task Force. He has served as a subject matter expert at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos.

As president of the Partnership for Prevention (2001-08), John spearheaded the successful advocacy campaign that secured the addition of preventive services to Medicare in 2003, established the National Commission on Prevention Priorities, earned recognition from Harvard Business Review for a “Breakthrough Idea” in workforce health, and quadrupled PfP’s revenues.

John has conducted numerous Congressional briefings, appeared on Fox & Friends, NBC Nightly News, CNBC, public radio, and in print media such as The New York Times, and authored book chapters and articles on prevention. He served as TEDMED’s Thought Leader for Great Challenges: Making Prevention Popular and Profitable.