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David J. Ballard

Adjunct Professor

The University of North Carolina

USA

Biography

David J. Ballard was Associate Professor at Mayo, Associate Professor with tenure at UVA, and Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine with tenure at Emory University. He joined Baylor Health Care System (BHCS) in 1999 as its first Chief Quality Officer (CQO) and, upon the merger of BHCS and Scott & White Health, became CQO of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), Texas’s largest health care system. He served on the Board of Managers of The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, the BSWH-Kessler/Select rehabilitation and long-term care board, the High-Value Health Care Collaborative board, and the xG Health Advisory Board of Geisinger Health System. Awards under David’s leadership included the 2007 Leapfrog Patient-Centered Care Award and the 2008 National Quality Award of the National Quality Forum.
A global healthcare thought leader, David is a board-certified internist who trained at Mayo Clinic with degrees with honors in economics, epidemiology, medicine, and business at UNC.

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