Vice-President Quality and Safety; Professor of Surgery
Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School
Sudbury, Massachusetts
Dr. David Shahian is Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Division of Cardiac Surgery and Department of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he also serves as Vice President for Quality and Safety. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, subsequently training in general surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center. Dr. Shahian has extensive experience as a practicing cardiothoracic surgeon, Department Chair, institutional quality leader, researcher, and health policy expert. As Chair of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Workforce on Quality and its Quality Measurement Task Force, and previous Chair of the STS National Database Workforce and STS Council on Quality, Research and Patient Safety, he has been a national leader in clinical registries and quality measurement, the latter including the STS portfolio of risk models and composite performance metrics. As Chair of the Massachusetts Cardiac Care Quality Commission and President of the Massachusetts Society of Thoracic Surgeons, he led development and implementation of the state-mandated Massachusetts public reporting initiative in cardiac surgery, and he was a co-developer of the STS voluntary national public reporting initiative. Dr. Shahian recently completed two terms on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the National Quality Forum and he served as founding Co-Chair of the National Quality Registry Network. He is Deputy Editor of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery and an author of more than 330 peer-reviewed publications and numerous book chapters.
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