Dr. Deshaies oversees physician specialists, advanced practice providers and graduate medical physician educators across clinical specialties, clinical practices, and hospitals and emergency rooms. His focus is on patient safety, continuous coordinated delivery of care and quality performance across one of the nation’s largest CMS providers helps ensure a highly valued, highly reliable, clinically integrated specialty network. He leads AI initiatives that support clinical decision-making and operational efficiencies to reduce non-patient facing provider time in the EHR, improve provider experience and elevate quality of care. He created the office of advanced practitioners, serving over 500 advanced practice providers with residencies, recruitment and retention, as well as partnerships with advanced practitioner training schools to improve patient access, peer mentorship and clinical leadership training. He integrated medical group quality and performance improvement with AdventHealth hospitals to focus on whole-person care along the entire patient journey, including access optimization for management of chronic diseases. He oversees medical group compliance, safety and quality teams and expanded psychological safety and wellness programs for providers and team members.
