Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
David Shahian is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He trained in general surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and was a fellow in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at Rush-Presbyterian–St. Luke’s Medical Center. For several decades he was an attending cardiothoracic surgeon and Department Chair at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center. He currently serves as Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the MGH Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery.
Dr. Shahian was inaugural chair of the Massachusetts Cardiac Care Quality Commission, which developed and implemented a statewide outcomes measurement and public reporting program for cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology. He also served as president of the Massachusetts Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Nationally, Dr. Shahian is chair of the STS Quality Measurement Task Force, in which capacity he has led the development of dozens of National Quality Forum-endorsed performance measures and their related risk models. He is past chair of the STS National Database Workforce, the STS Workforce on Quality, and the STS Council on Quality, Research and Patient Safety, in which roles he was responsible for all STS database and quality measurement activities. Dr. Shahian co-led development of the STS national voluntary public reporting program, the most expansive of any healthcare professional society.
Dr. Shahian has served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the National Quality Forum. He has published more than 340 peer-reviewed articles and has served on multiple Editorial Boards and technical expert panels.
CONSULTANT FEES/HONORARIA: IPASS Institute
Advancing Transparency and Accountability Through Public Reporting
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CT
