Steve Meurer is a Healthcare Performance Improvement expert focused on improving health systems’ quality, safety, finances and operations. He brings 30+ years of education and experience in improvement science as well as 20+ years of teaching Masters students, and 1,000+ presentations to health systems providing leaders with an increased ability to improve performance. Prior to his role at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Dr. Meurer was the Executive Principal of Data Science & Member Insights at Vizient. Dr. Meurer was the senior-most subject matter expert in the use of data from Vizient’s Clinical Data Base to drive performance improvement, and presented improvement opportunities to leaders at almost every health system in the US. Prior to this role, Dr. Meurer was Senior Vice President at University Health System Consortium (UHC) where he led all aspects of UHC’s comparative data portfolio, including sales, support, methodology and information technology. UHC was a founding organization of Vizient, and Dr. Meurer spent 17 years at these organizations. Earlier in his career, Dr. Meurer was Chief Quality & Information Officer at the DeKalb Health System in Atlanta, where he led the integration of Quality and Information Technology, and subsequently managed 200+ people. Dr. Meurer has also held positions of increasing responsibility at St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, PA; BJC HealthCare in St. Louis, MO; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; and Orlando (FL) Regional Healthcare System. Dr. Meurer also spent 15 years as Associate Professor at Rush University, where he taught Quality & Operations in Healthcare to Master of Healthcare Administration students. Dr. Meurer has also taught at Loyola University Chicago, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University and Temple University. Dr. Meurer is an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Medical Quality, and is the Administration Group Leader for the Health Professions Educators’ Summer Symposium (HPESS). Dr. Meurer earned a PhD in Health Services Research at Saint Louis University with a dissertation entitled ‘Quality Improvement Implementation in Hospitals’; a Master of Business Administration & Master of Health Science at the University of Florida; and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross. He holds a Certificate in Healthcare Quality & Informatics from Intermountain Healthcare.