Dr. Chang leads CommonSpirit Health’s systemwide quality and safety strategy, overseeing how care quality is delivered, measured and improved across one of the nation’s largest health systems. He partners with clinical and quality leaders to accelerate performance improvement, strengthen credentialing and peer review, and advance clinician wellness, engagement and development. He has also helped drive multi-year clinical gains, including improved blood pressure control for more than 130,000 patients and improved diabetes control for 35,000 patients, along with reductions in mortality for heart failure, stroke and percutaneous coronary intervention and decreases in hospital-acquired infections. A trauma and general surgeon by training, Dr. Chang is known for applying standard improvement methodologies to create durable, systemwide change rather than isolated wins. Nationally, he serves as chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges CMO group steering committee and sits on a Vizient steering committee for benchmarking and ranking.
