SVP/Chief Clinical Officer
Ballad Health
Amit Vashist, MD, serves as the Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer focusing on clinical quality and safety, value-based initiatives to improve quality while reducing cost of care, clinical innovation, performance improvement, clinical transformation and oversight of the enterprise-wide clinical delivery of care, and medical staff affairs. He spearheaded the creation of Ballad Health Center for Clinical Transformation, Innovation & Outcomes Improvement in 2022. Additionally, he provides administrative oversight of the Ballad Health Clinical Council - a leading model of physician partnership for clinical transformation and outcomes improvement. Additionally, he serves as Chief Clinical Advisor to Ballad Ventures.
Dr. Vashist, featured in multiple Becker's lists of hospital and health system Chief Medical Officers to Know as well as Physician Leaders to Know, is a dual board-certified internist and psychiatrist and an avid proponent of initiatives aimed at promoting quality, improving safety, reducing cost and minimizing variation in the delivery of patient care across diverse settings. His work has been instrumental in improving outcomes and reducing mortality in hospitalized patients, particularly with sepsis, earning him several local, regional and national awards. His work in rolling out High Reliability journey at Ballad Health as well as promoting a zero harm culture has been instrumental in significantly reducing hospital-acquired infections and other harm measures system wide. His pioneering work at Ballad Health has resulted in multiple quality measures being in the top decile in the nation.
He has been recognized as a regional Healthcare Hero and Forty under 40 honoree, a senior fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine, and a fellow of The American College of Healthcare Executives.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025
10:45am – 11:45am CT