Jennifer Azzara, MM

Jennifer Azzara, MM, is an independent consultant with more than 20 years of experience leading performance improvement initiatives, as well as advancing organizational strategies and practical approaches to value-based care innovation in provider practices. Jenny has served in leadership and consulting roles in practice operations, system-wide quality improvement, and team-based care during her career in academic hospital systems, community health centers, and an Accountable Care Organization. Specific areas of expertise include primary care behavioral health integration, telehealth adoption and digital access, patient experience of care, and health equity.

In addition, Jenny is an organizational development leader who created and co-led a six-year initiative to enhance leadership and teamwork with over 25 community health centers, and who successfully developed and led an Accountable Care Organization’s strategy to improve workforce engagement. During her tenure on staff at the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, Jenny taught change leadership in the Medical Director Leadership Institute and the Masterclass for Non-Physicians, and she provided practice transformation coaching for over 35 community and hospital-based primary care practices.

Jenny holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Boston College and a Master of Health Policy and Management from the Heller School at Brandeis University.