Jose M Azar

Jose M. Azar, MD is an agile and innovative healthcare executive leading quality for Hackensack Meridian Health, a $8.8 billion not-for-profit healthcare network in New Jersey. Dr. Azar has successfully driven multiple improvement initiatives accoplishing top performance in CMS Stars and USNWR. These include: developing a tool to provide timely, actionable data leading to sustained inpatient and ambulatory care outcomes; creating the Specialty Collaboratives, the first physician-based advisory board to improve care delivery systems; and creating the HMH Agile Institute to facilitate agile training and agile innovation. He assisted in launching a Care Disparities Council to accelerate diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in quality and safety. He coauthored Agile Implementation: A Model for Implementing Evidence-Based Healthcare Solutions Into Real-World Practice and The Agile Network: A Model to Foster Innovation, Implementation, and Diffusion in Healthcare Settings.