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“Dr. Kumar has succeeded in improving patient safety in US hospitals not by rhetoric, but by aggressively fostering the real time collection of data that lead to immediate and practical solutions to otherwise undetected failings in the system.“
~ Deeb N. Salem, MD, Sheldon M. Wolff, Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief, Tufts-New England Medical Center
About Sanjaya Kumar, MD
Dr. Sanjaya Kumar is President, CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Quantros, Inc., a company that arms healthcare providers with clinically-driven safety and quality solutions that save lives, lowers risk, improves quality and reduces healthcare costs. Quantros products are used by one in five US hospitals.
Dr. Kumar is driven by an agenda aimed at improving the quality of care provided to patients by today’s evolving health care delivery systems. He has been the clinical lead on many cooperative clinical quality improvement projects.
Dr. Kumar serves on numerous quality improvement committees, task forces and working groups, both at the national and state levels and is a frequent speaker at national health care conferences and meetings. Dr. Kumar has been published widely in peer reviewed medical journals and has hosted various health care industry conferences.
Career:
- 2000 to Present: Quantros, Inc., Board Chairman, Chief Medical Officer, President & CEO
- 1992 to 2000: Louisiana Health Care Review, Inc., IBM, School Of Public Health, University Of Massachusetts.
- 1988 to 1992: London School of Economics & Political Science, Post-Graduate Medical Training in the U.K.
Post Graduate Training:
- University Of Massachusetts School of Public Health, Amherst, MA
- London School of Economics & Political Science, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, U.K.
- Central Middlesex Hospital, Department of Cardiology, London, U.K.
- Newham General Hospital, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, London, U.K.
- School Of Medicine, University Of Benin, Department of Community & Preventive Medicine, Benin-City, Nigeria
- Central Hospital, Departments of Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics, Benin-City, Nigeria
Other:
- 1996-2000 Clinical Adjunct Assistant Professor, Pennington Biomedical Research Center Division of Primary Care Research, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
- Editorial/Executive Board Member for organizations such as Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management, Patient Safety and Quality Journal, Louisiana Rural Health Care Association and more
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