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Mohamad Fakih, MD, MPH (he/him/his)

Chief Quality Officer
Ascension

Mohamad Fakih, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA is Senior Vice President, Chief Quality Officer at Ascension. He leads the work on improving quality, safety, and associate health across the continuum of care. His focus is to standardize the process to optimize disease management and avert patient harm. A substantial component of his work is building a structure to improve clinical care, from identifying best practices, creating a process that supports both patient and provider adoption, and hardwiring it to achieve sustainable results. Some related achievements include improving mortality, mitigating the risk for healthcare-associated infections and medication related harm, enhancing both diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship in the acute care space.
Another important focus area revolves on the adoption of best practices in the ambulatory space, particularly optimizing chronic disease management and antimicrobial stewardship. More recently, he has led his system implementation of a patient centered outcomes research institute (PCORI) initiative in about 250 Ascension sites, standardizing the approach to acute respiratory tract infections, using clinical decision support tools and robust feedback on performance utilizing dashboards.
His earlier research included methods to reduce device-associated infections risk. His work built the foundation for the 50 State AHRQ Initiative “On the CUSP Stop CAUTI”. In addition to preventing urinary catheter harm, he emphasizes diagnostic stewardship for catheter associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI).
Dr. Fakih is Professor of Medicine (FTA) at Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan. He is board certified in Infectious Diseases, and carries an executive Masters degree in Health Management and Policy from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed articles and more than 100 published abstracts. He has served as a member on the CDC Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) from 2019 to 2023.

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