Jan Mainz

Jan Mainz is professor of Health Services Research at Aalborg University Hospital, Psychiatry, Center for Clinical Health Services Research. He is Executive Director of Psychiatry in Region North Denmark. He is affiliated Professor at University of Southern Denmark. Jan Mainz is the Danish representative in the OECD Working Party on Quality and Outcomes since 2002. He is former Project Manager and he has been responsible for establishment of The Danish National Indicator Project and development of indicators and measurement. He was Chairman of The Nordic Minister Council Project on Indicators Monitoring in the six Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Greenland and Denmark) 2002-2015. From 1999 to 2005 he was President of The Danish Society for Quality in health care and from 2003 to 2005 President of The European Society for Quality in Health. His main research activities relates to health services research, quality improvement and quality management, performance and outcome measurement, Quality monitoring and patient empowerment. He has published more150 papers in scientific journals and contributed to more 25 books.