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Nader Massarweh, MD MPH (he/him/his)

Senior Vice President, Chief Quality Officer
Grady Health

Nader Massarweh, MD MPH recently accepted the position of Senior Vice President, Chief Quality Officer for Grady Health. Previously, he was Chief of Surgery at the Atlanta VA Health Care System, Vice Chair of Veterans Affairs in the Emory University School of Medicine Department of Surgery, and an Associate Professor of Surgery with tenure in the Division of Surgical Oncology. He received his MD degree at Tulane University School of Medicine. He then attended the University of Washington where he completed general surgery residency, received his MPH in Epidemiology, and completed a post-graduate research fellowship in health services research funded by an NIH F32. He then pursued a clinical fellowship in Complex General Surgical Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center where he was awarded the Lotzova Memorial Research Prize at graduation.

He is an active health services researcher and research mentor. He has been PI of federal awards through VA HSR, NIH, and AHRQ. Broadly speaking, his academic interests include the evaluation of surgical quality improvement initiatives and finding ways to improve the nature and rate of feedback of performance-based data to inform local quality and performance improvement. His funded research has focused on the evaluation of varying strategies for measuring hospital surgical quality—specifically, the use of risk adjusted statistical process control methodology for monitoring hospital surgical quality and strategies to improve programmatic efficiency with national surgical quality improvement programs.

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