Enterprise Chief Quality Officer
Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Dale W. Bratzler, DO, MPH, is a professor of medicine and public health at the University of Oklahoma (OU) Health Sciences Center and the Enterprise Chief Quality Officer for the three-hospital health system and faculty practice at OU Medicine. His experience in health care quality improvement includes working with CMS on the development and maintenance of national performance measures used to profile and report on the quality of inpatient and outpatient health care. He has served two terms as president of the American Health Quality Association and is a past member of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality National Advisory Council and the CDC Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. He has given more than 600 lectures nationally on health care quality topics. Dr. Bratzler earned his medical degree from the Kansas City University College of Medicine and Biosciences and his Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Oklahoma. Board certified in internal medicine, he is a Master Fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Internists, and a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.