Richard Wright, MD, MPH

Richard Wright, MD, MPH, is an international consultant and expert in quality and patient safety. Dr. Wright is a board certified internal medicine and infectious disease specialist. He is an independent consultant with the Joint Commission Resources (JCR) and Joint Commission International (JCI), providing consulting services for hospitals and ambulatory centers both in the United States and in numerous countries, with specific expertise in credentialing and privileging, performance measurement and quality management, leadership development, and the use of Lean Redesign methods to improve clinical processes impacting quality and patient safety. His expertise is in performance improvement and evaluation, care process redesign, and disease management by clinical teams. Previously, he served as a senior executive of Denver Health Authority as the Executive Director of the largest network of Federally Qualified Community-based Primary Care Health Centers in the country, serving 100,000 residents in Denver and providing more than 300,000 ambulatory visits. Dr. Wright authored numerous articles on a broad array of topics related to health care quality and management