| Gary
R. Yates, MD is
the President of
Healthcare
Performance Improvement and the Chief Medical Officer of founding
partner Sentara Healthcare. At Sentara, Dr. Yates is responsible
for the clinical effectiveness programs, physician integration
efforts, and medical management issues for its 6-hospital system
and 320,000-member health plan. A board certified family physician
and fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, Dr.
Yates is a member of the clinical faculty at the Eastern Virginia
Medical School. Dr. Yates joined Sentara in 1996 and has been
responsible for developing Sentara's clinical effectiveness
and patient safety initiatives. He provided leadership for the
quality and patient safety initiatives leading to Sentara Norfolk
General Hospital being recognized as the 2004 recipient of the
AHA's Quest for Quality Award and Sentara Healthcare being recognized
as the 2005 recipient of the John M. Eisenberg Award for Patient
Safety and Quality from JCAHO and the National Quality Forum.
Dr. Yates
previously served as Chairman, Department of Family and Community
Medicine and Chief Quality Officer for Maricopa Health System
in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Yates also served three years as
a judge for the Arizona Governor’s Award for Quality, as a
member of the Executive Committee for the Institute for Healthcare
Improvement's (IHI) Quality Management Network and as co-chair
of IHI's ninth annual Nation Forum on Quality Improvement
in Health Care. He currently serves as President of Virginians
Improving Patient Care and Safety (VIPCS), the statewide patient
safety consortium for Virginia. Dr. Yates was awarded the
2005 Physician Executive Award of Excellence from Modern Physician
and the American College of Physician Executives (ACPE).
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