With his extensive background as a clinician and executive, Dr. Plauth engages with clinical teams at Renown Health to adopt innovative approaches that promote ease of practice. He provides expertise, coordination and leadership in support of elected medical staff leaders, and recently combined the strengths of two hospital medical staffs into one. He also serves as associate dean for clinical affairs at the University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine, where he promotes professionalism in medical education and clinical research while advancing the academic and research integration of Nevada’s first fully integrated health system. Board-certified in both internal medicine and hospice and palliative care, Dr. Plauth is a leader in quality improvement, patient safety and clinical informatics. He is helping to lead the organization’s transition to a high-reliability organization, drawing on his proven experience implementing the principles at prior health systems to advance teamwork, patient safety and clinical excellence. Dr. Plauth also oversees “Healthy Nevada Project,” the country’s largest community-based population health study, which combines genetic, clinical, environmental and social data and informs 62,500 research study Nevada participants on their risks for tier 1 genetic conditions.
