Dr. Master serves as system chief medical officer for Piedmont Healthcare, overseeing medical practice, clinical performance, patient safety, quality outcomes, patient satisfaction and physician engagement across the statewide nonprofit system, with system oversight of pharmacy, lab and radiology. Appointed to the role in January 2025, he previously served as assistant chief medical officer since 2021 and as chief medical officer of Piedmont Mountainside Hospital in Jasper, Ga. from 2014 to 2025, bringing more than 25 years of experience as a practicing internist and physician leader. Under his leadership, Piedmont Mountainside achieved 19 consecutive Leapfrog “A” grades, and he led a multidisciplinary effort that reduced excess days by 50%, creating capacity equivalent to 300 additional beds. He helped establish physician-led, specialty-specific clinical governance councils that set the system’s quality and safety agenda and guided Piedmont to its highest A++ internal safety grade in fiscal year 2025. Dr. Master is also leading Piedmont’s expansion into graduate medical education, overseeing new programs in medicine and surgery and subspecialties across multiple hospitals.
