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Hillcrest Heights, MD
National Committee for Quality Assurance, Health Care Consultant
Represented: Patients, Caregivers, and Patient Advocates
David M. (Dave) White is a healthcare consultant with expertise in patient-centered care, patient engagement, and kidney-disease awareness and prevention. He is a grateful kidney transplant recipient and a veteran of in-center dialysis; in-center, nocturnal dialysis; and peritoneal dialysis. His mission is to promote population health through advocacy. White serves on the boards of directors of the American Association of Kidney Patients, the Kidney Health Initiative, and the Veterans Transplantation Association. He chairs the Kidney Health Initiative Patient and Family Partnership Council and co-chairs the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's Advisory Panel on Patient Engagement.
White is a member of the American Society of Transplantation Transplant Community Advisory Council, the End Stage Renal Disease National Coordinating Center Health Services Advisory Group, the National Kidney Foundation Kidney Advocacy Committee, and the Quality Insights Mid-Atlantic Renal Coalition Patient Advisory Committee. He enjoys public speaking, writing, and exercise. He has made regional and national television appearances as a patient advocate. A United States Army veteran, White lives in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, with his wife and hero, Hilva.
White served as a member and former Chair of the Advisory Panel on Patient Engagement from August 2016 to August 2019.