Dr Brent James

MD, MStat

Chief Quality Officer Intermountain Health Care USA

Dr Brent James is Chief Quality Officer at Intermountain Healthcare (IHC) and the Executive Director of the Institute for Health Care Delivery Research and Vice President – Medical Research and Continuing Medical Education. For more than 20 years, Dr Brent James has championed the standardisation of clinical care through data collection and analysis on a wide variety of treatment protocols and complex care processes.

Dr James has devoted himself to using quality improvement tools to better understand the cause and effect relationship between various practice and environmental factors.

Today, nearly 100 years after his mentor's ground breaking discoveries, Dr James firmly believes that the practice of medicine and delivery of health care stands at another critical crossroads.