Marc Stern, MD, MPH is a general internist and former assistant secretary for health care at the Washington Department of Corrections, where he led the conversion of the state’s prison health care system from a decentralized, superintendent-run system to a centralized system of 700 health care professionals under physician leadership. He also served as medical director of Albany County’s jail in New York, and regional medical director for the New York Department of Corrections and CMS, Inc. His current and past monitoring and consulting activities include work with the U.S. Department of Justice and Homeland Security, federal courts, and the California, Wisconsin, and Miami-Dade Departments of Corrections. Dr. Stern codeveloped and taught the Medical Director’s Leadership Academy for NCCHC, wrote and taught the National Institute of Corrections’ Executive Manager in Correctional Health Care Program, and was a contributor to the 2014 NCCHC health care standards.