Director, Quality & Patient Safety
Ascension
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Maria Mupanomunda, MD, PhD, MBA is a health equity champion with progressive experience in clinical, academic, and leadership roles. Dr. Mupanomunda currently serves as Director, Quality & Patient Safety at Ascension and is the co-chair of the Ascension Perinatal Quality and Health Equity Committee. In this role, she brings a health equity lens to quality across the continuum. She has led several system-wide clinical priority goals promoting Ascension’s systemwide priority to advance health equity and eliminate preventable disparities in quality outcomes.
A family physician, Dr. Mupanomunda holds a medical degree from the University of Zimbabwe School Of Medicine, a PhD from Michigan State University, completed a fellowship in hypertension and vascular research at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, and completed the Ascension Executive Ministry Leadership Formation. Dr. Mupanomunda works collaboratively with clinical teams across Ascension to implement data driven tools, clinical processes, and community partnerships to accelerate improvements in targeted health conditions with a special focus on populations experiencing health disparities.