Dr. Sequist is responsible for developing and executing strategy, policy and metrics for patient experience, quality, safety, health equity, community health, pharmacy and physician wellbeing across the Mass General Brigham healthcare system. He led a broad reorganization of the chief medical officer role and function across the twelve hospitals in the Mass General Brigham system, including its academic medical centers and specialty and community hospitals. Under Dr. Sequist’s leadership, Mass General Brigham launched “United Against Racism,” a systemwide framework for addressing structural racism, which includes a number of initiatives designed to foster and retain a more diverse leadership and workforce, create an equitable and thriving workplace culture, improve access and remove barriers to healthcare for all patients, and invest in community and mental health. Dr. Sequist also leads “For Every Patient,” a multi-year effort designed to align, improve and measure quality of care across four priority areas, including effective, safe, equitable care and a better patient experience. He is also a practicing general internist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, as well as a professor of medicine and health care policy at Harvard Medical School.
