Mitchell J. Blutt, M.D., Elected to Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors

 

Mitchell J. Blutt, M.D., M.B.A., founder and chief executive officer of the New York–based health care investment firm Consonance Capital, has been elected to the Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors.

 

Prior to founding Consonance Capital in 2005, Blutt was an executive partner of J.P. Morgan Partners. He is also a clinical assistant professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University.

 

Blutt serves on the Dean’s Council at Weill Cornell School of Medicine and on the Board of Overseers of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a member of the New York Academy of Medicine and has been a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Medicine, its medical school and health system. In addition, he has served on the boards of Cardinal Health, Fisher Scientific, and the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.

 

Blutt received an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.