Dr. Brent James, recently retired Chief Quality Officer and Executive Director of the Institute for Health Care Delivery at Intermountain Healthcare, has joined the faculty of the Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) program at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. Dr. James will teach courses in the MHA program as well as in the new Certificate in Quality Management and Leadership.

Dr. James is world renowned for his influence on and work to improve the quality of patient care while reducing the cost of treatment. Dr. James currently holds faculty appointments at the University of Utah School of Medicine, T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health and the Stanford University School of Medicine. As leader of Intermountain Healthcare’s Advanced Training Program in Clinical Practice Improvement, he has trained over 5,000 senior physician, nursing and administrative executives drawn from around the world. Dr. James also organized more than 50 sister training programs currently running in ten different countries.

Dr. James is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He received the prestigious Deming Cup for Quality Productivity and Competitiveness from Columbia University, the C. Jackson Grayson Medal as a Distinguished Quality Pioneer from the American Quality and Productivity Center, and a long list of other national clinical quality awards. In 2009, Dr. James was featured in the New York Times Magazine for his ground breaking work in clinical quality improvement. For 8 of first the 9 years it existed, he was named among Modern Physician’s “50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare.” He was also named among the Modern Healthcare’s “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare” for more than 5 years as well as the “25 Top Clinical Informaticists”.

Dr. James holds Bachelor of Science degrees in both computer science and medical biology, a Master of Statistics degree, as well as a Medical Doctorate with residency training in general surgery and oncology, all earned at the University of Utah. In addition, Dr. James completed a fellowship in biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health.