David J. Ballard
| David J. Ballard | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1956 Lexington, Kentucky |
| 🏡 Residence | Dallas, Texas |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Lawrenceville School University of North Carolina Mayo Clinic College of Medicine |
| 💼 Occupation | |
David J. Ballard (born 1956) served as the Chief Quality Officer[1] of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), a not-for-profit health care system in Texas[2] and as the President of the Value-Based Healthcare Global Institute (VBH Global) from 2013–2018. He served as President of the International Society for Quality in Health Care from 2001–2003.[3]
Background
Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Ballard attended the Lawrenceville School. He then went on to the University of North Carolina and completed degrees in economics, chemistry, epidemiology, and medicine. During college, he was also a Morehead Scholar, North Carolina Fellow, and junior year Phi Beta Kappa inductee[4]. Ballard trained at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and he is a board-certified internist, as well as Fellow of the American College of Physicians.[5]
Health Care Leadership
Following completion of Internal Medicine training at the Mayo Clinic in 1986, Ballard accepted a position to join the Mayo Clinic staff where he developed the Mayo Section of Health Services Evaluation. He led Mayo’s participation in the RAND/Academic Medical Center Consortium/AMA Clinical Appropriateness Initiative[6].
Ballard moved to the University of Virginia in 1991 and developed the Kerr White Institute for Health Services Research of which the University of Virginia was a founding member[7]. In 1994, Ballard went to work at Emory University where he expanded the Kerr White Institute with members that included Peer Review Organizations from six states (Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Virginia), four universities (Emory, Morehouse, Medical College of Georgia, University of Virginia) and five pharmaceutical companies (Lilly, Merck, Pfizer, Pharmacia & Upjohn and Smith-Kline Beecham). In 1998 four (Colorado, Connecticut, Oklahoma and Virginia) of the Institute’s five PRO members earned national HCFA Medicare Clinical Area Service contracts to lead the development of quality of care measures and improvement strategies for the clinical topics that comprised the founding measures for the Core Measure Program of the Joint Commission. In 1999, Ballard was elected to a two year term as president of the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua). While he was ISQua president, he led the development, in part through conference grants from the Agency for Health Care Quality and Research, of the ISQua Performance Indicators Program.[8]
In 1999 Ballard went to work for Baylor Health Care System (BHCS) in the Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas area as BHCS’s first Chief Quality Officer. In that capacity he was responsible for clinical quality improvement initiatives for an integrated delivery system with 15 hospitals, 80 ambulatory care centers, 500 employed and 4,000 affiliated physicians, 18,000 employees and an annual operating budget over $5 billion. While Ballard was the Chief Quality Officer, BHCS received several regional and national awards for its health care improvement accomplishments, including the 2007 Leapfrog Patient-Centered Care Award[9], the 2008 National Quality Healthcare Award of the National Quality Forum[10], and BHCS ranked 2nd among more than 250 multi-hospital health care systems across the United States in overall quality of care based on a peer reviewed published analysis by Dr. Maulik Joshi[11], then President of the Health Research and Education Trust of the American Hospital Association. BHCS’s extensive primary care network improved in the delivery of United States Preventive Services Task Force recommended adult clinical preventive services from 37% in 1999 to 93% in 2006[12], and received the 2010 Preeminence Award of the American Medical Group Association[13]. BHCS launched in July 2011 an externally focused health care quality improvement resource, VBH Global, appointing Ballard as President of that entity.
On October 1, 2013 Ballard was appointed as the Chief Quality Officer of Baylor Scott & White Health, the largest not-for-profit health care system in Texas, formed through the merger of Baylor Health Care System and Scott & White Health[14], which includes 48 hospitals, > 1,000 patient care sites, 9,600 affiliated and/or employed physicians, > 48,000 employees, and the Scott & White Health Plan and has an annual operating budget of $10 billion..[15]. His books, Achieving STEEEP Health Care and The Guide to Achieving STEEEP Health Care, both received the Shingo Research Award[16] for their contributions to operational excellence.
Research
Ballard has published more than 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts[17] and serves on the editorial boards of Health Services Research, the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research, and the Mayo Clinic Proceedings (for which he serves as Healthcare Policy Section Editor)[18]. At the Mayo Clinic, Ballard received the Merck/Society for Epidemiologic Research Clinical Epidemiology Fellowship award which, in addition to an R01 from the National Institutes of Health (HL 24326), funded his work published in the New England Journal of Medicine and elsewhere. This work clarified the natural history of abdominal aortic aneurysms, characterized the uncertainty among clinical experts pertaining to which patients might benefit from elective abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery, and led to a randomized controlled trial of elective abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery conducted among more than 1100 randomized patients across 12 Veterans Affairs medical centers across the United States, the results of which confirmed the results of Ballard’s previous observational studies indicating that patients with infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms do not benefit from elective aneurysm resection[19][20]
Ballard’s AHRQ-funded research, demonstrating the beneficial effects of electronic health record deployment in primary care settings with respect to diabetes quality of care, received in 2012, the John M. Eisenberg Article-of-the-Year award in Health Services Research[21]
Awards
- 1995 AcademyHealth New Investigator Award[22]
- 2008 Distinguished Medical Alumnus Award of the UNC School of Medicine[23]
- 2012 John M. Eisenberg Article-of-the-Year in Health Services Research[24]
- 50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety 2015 by Becker's Hospital Review[25]
- 50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety 2016 by Becker's Hospital Review[26]
- 50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety 2017 by Becker's Hospital Review[27]
Personal
Ballard is married to Michela Caruso, MD, a native of Rome. Ballard and his wife live in Dallas. They have two children, Elisa and Alessandro.
References
- ↑ "Leadership | Baylor Scott & White Health". www.bswhealth.com. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
- ↑ ,"About Baylor Scott & White | Baylor Scott & White Health". www.bswhealth.com. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ↑ "Presidents & the First Exective Board". isqua.org. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ↑ "Giving back – David Ballard and Michela Caruso (Spring, 2011) || UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health". sph.unc.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
- ↑ "David Joseph Ballard, MD, MSPH, PhD, FACP". www.baylorhealth.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
- ↑ Ballard, D. J. (June 1994). "The RAND/AMA/AMCC Clinical Appropriateness Initiative: insights for multi-site appropriateness studies derived from the abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery project". International Journal for Quality in Health Care: Journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care. 6 (2): 187–198. ISSN 1353-4505. PMID 7953217.
- ↑ Ballard, DJ (1997). "A little statistical compassion linked to an intense and creative look at healthcare evidence: the genius of Kerr White". Health Services Research. 9: 83–86.
- ↑ Ballard, David J. (December 2003). "Indicators to improve clinical quality across an integrated health care system". International Journal for Quality in Health Care: Journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care. 15 Suppl 1: i13–23. ISSN 1353-4505. PMID 14660519.
- ↑ "Baylor Scott & White Health News : Awards: Baylor Scott & White Health – North Texas". news.bswhealth.com. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
- ↑ "Baylor system wins NQF quality award". Modern Healthcare. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ↑ Hines, Steve; Joshi, Maulik S. (June 2008). "Variation in quality of care within health systems". Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 34 (6): 326–332. ISSN 1553-7250. PMID 18595378.
- ↑ Ballard, David J.; Nicewander, David A.; Qin, Huanying; Fullerton, Cliff; Winter, F. David; Couch, Carl E. (2007-12-01). "Improving Delivery of Clinical Preventive Services". American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 33 (6): 492–497. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2007.07.040. ISSN 0749-3797.
- ↑ Inc., Advanced Solutions International,. "News - 28 August 2012". www.amga.org. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ↑ "Baylor Health Care System, Scott & White complete their merger". Dallas News. 2013-09-30. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
- ↑ "About Baylor Scott & White | Baylor Scott & White Health". www.bswhealth.com. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
- ↑ University, The Shingo Institute at Utah State. "Shingo Institute". www.shingoprize.org. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ↑ pubmeddev. "Ballard DJ - PubMed - NCBI". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
- ↑ "Mayo Clinic Proceedings". www.mayoclinicproceedings.org. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
- ↑ Nevitt, M. P.; Ballard, D. J.; Hallett, J. W. (1989-10-12). "Prognosis of abdominal aortic aneurysms. A population-based study". The New England Journal of Medicine. 321 (15): 1009–1014. doi:10.1056/NEJM198910123211504. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 2674715.
- ↑ Lederle, Frank A.; Wilson, Samuel E.; Johnson, Gary R.; Reinke, Donovan B.; Littooy, Fred N.; Acher, Charles W.; Ballard, David J.; Messina, Louis M.; Gordon, Ian L. (2002-05-09). "Immediate repair compared with surveillance of small abdominal aortic aneurysms". The New England Journal of Medicine. 346 (19): 1437–1444. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa012573. ISSN 1533-4406. PMID 12000813.
- ↑ "John M. Eisenberg Article-of-the-Year Award". www.hsr.org. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
- ↑ "Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award Past Recipients | Academy Health". www.academyhealth.org. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ↑ "Past Recipients of Distinguished Service Award- Distinguished Medical Alumnus Award" (PDF). UNC School of Medicine.
- ↑ "John M. Eisenberg Article-of-the-Year Award". www.hsr.org. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ↑ "50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety 2015". Becker's Hospital Review. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
- ↑ "50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety 2016". Becker's Hospital Review. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
- ↑ "50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety 2017". Becker's Hospital Review. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
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