Brent C. James, M.D., M.Stat., Chief Quality Officer, Executive Director Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, Intermountain Healthcare. Dr. Brent James is known internationally for his work in clinical quality improvement, patient safety, and the infrastructure that underlies successful improvement efforts, such as culture change, data systems, payment methods, and management roles. He is a member of the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine (and participated in many of that organization’s seminal works on quality and patient safety). He is a Fellow of the American College of Physician Executives. He holds faculty appointments at: He is Chief Quality Officer, and Executive Director, Institute for Health Care Delivery Research at Intermountain Healthcare, based in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Intermountain is an integrated system of 22 hospitals, almost 200 clinics, a 1000+ member physician group, and an HMO/PPO insurance plan jointly responsible for more than 550,000 covered lives serving patients in Utah, Idaho, and, at a tertiary level, seven surrounding States). Through the Intermountain Advanced Training Program in Clinical Practice Improvement (ATP), he has trained more than 5,000 senior physician, nursing, and administrative executives, drawn from around the world, in clinical management methods, with proven improvement results (and over 50 “daughter” training programs in 9 countries) He has been honored with a series of awards for quality in health care delivery, including (among many): AHA HRET TRUST Award, 2005 National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Quality Award, 2005 For 8 of the 9 years it has been in existence, he has been named among Modern Physician’s “50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare.” He has been named among the “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare” (Modern Healthcare) for over 5 years, and Modern Healthcare’s “25 Top Clinical Informaticists”.