Meet IHI’s Scientific Advisory Group
IHI’s Scientific Advisory Group is an independent group of internationally recognized scientific and clinical leaders chartered by IHI’s Board of Directors. Their expertise in improvement science, research, medicine, and public health strengthens the rigor and credibility of IHI’s work to advance better health and health care worldwide. Meet the experts who help guide the science behind our work.
Amar Shah, MBBS, MRCPsych, LLM, MA, MBA, MBE
Chair
Interim Chief Scientific Officer, IHI
National Clinical Director for Improvement, NHS England
National Improvement Lead for Mental Health, Royal College of Psychiatrists
Honorary Professor, University of York School for Business & Society
Sam R. Watson, MSA, CPPS
Board Liaison
Senior Vice President, Patient Safety and Quality, Michigan Health & Hospital Association Keystone Center
Okemos, Michigan
James Barlow, PhD
Member
Professor of Technology and Innovation Management (Healthcare), Imperial Business School, Imperial College London
Cynthia Barnard, PhD, MBA, MSJS
Member
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and School of Professional Studies
Associate Editor, Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
Nicola Burgess, PhD
Member
Professor of Operations Management, School for Business and Society, University of York, UK
Visiting Fellow at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK
Kenilworth, England
David Dowdy, MD, PhD
Member
Professor of Epidemiology and Executive Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Ezequiel Garcia Elorrio, MD, MSc, MBA, PhD
Member
Director, Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety, and Director, Administration and Finance, Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy
President, ISQua
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Don Goldmann, MD
Member
Chief Scientific Officer Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Professor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts
Wiljeana Jackson Glover, PhD
Member
Stephen C. and Carmella R. Kletjian Foundation Distinguished Professor of Global Healthcare Entrepreneurship
Founding Faculty Director, Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Wellesley, Massachusetts
Lisa Hirschhorn, MD, MPH
Member
Professor, Medical Social Sciences, and Director, Ryan Family Center on Global Primary Care, Robert J. Havey Institute for Global Health Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
James Hoffman, PharmD, MS
Member
Senior Vice President, Quality and Safety, Member, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Kenneth Kwek Yung Chiang, MD
Member
Deputy Group CEO, Digital and Future Health
Lloyd Provost, MS
Member
Statistician, Associates in Process Improvement
Austin, Texas
Meike Jill Schleiff, DrPH, MSPH
Member
Associate Professor of Health Systems and Policy, Global Business School for Health, University College London
Christine Soong, MD, MSc
Member
Professor of Medicine and Vice-Chair, Quality & Innovation, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Senior Editor, BMJ Quality & Safety