Paul Batalden, MD
Emeritus Professor
Paul Batalden is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Community and Family Medicine, and Health Policy and Clinical Practice at The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College and Guest Professor of Quality Improvement and Leadership at Jönköping University in Sweden.
Dr. Batalden teaches about the leadership of improvement of healthcare quality, safety, and value at Dartmouth, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and the Jönköping Academy for the Improvement of Health and Welfare in Sweden. He is currently working on the coproduction of healthcare service and its implications. He is the host of a podcast series, “The Power of Coproduction” soon to be available through usual sources of podcasts.
Previously he founded, created or helped develop the IHI, the U.S. VA National Quality Scholars program, the IHI Health Professions Educational Collaborative, the General Competencies of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the Center for Leadership and Improvement at Dartmouth, the Dartmouth Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency, the annual Health Professional Educator’s Summer Symposium (aka “Summer Camp”) at Dartmouth, the SQUIRE publication guidelines for the improvement of healthcare, the Improvement Science Fellowship Program of The Health Foundation in the UK and the Vinnvård Improvement Science Fellowships in Sweden. He is a member of the Minnesota Academy of Medicine and the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.