Director, Clinical Quality Measures

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic development, execution, and maintenance of the American Heart Association's portfolio of clinical quality measures across cardiovascular, stroke, and related therapeutic areas.
• Direct measure development activities, including environmental scans, literature reviews, technical expert panel engagement, specification development, testing, validation, and implementation planning.
• Oversee measure stewardship activities and ensure compliance with applicable standards and reporting requirements.
• Collaborate with clinical experts, scientific volunteers, healthcare organizations, and external stakeholders to identify priority areas for quality measurement and performance improvement.
• Lead industry-sponsored quality measurement and evidence-generation initiatives focused on improving healthcare quality, outcomes, and guideline adherence.
• Translate clinical practice guidelines into actionable quality measures that support value-based care, accreditation, certification, and quality improvement programs.
• Collaborate with Quality Improvement, QORA, and Data Science teams to evaluate measure performance and identify opportunities for innovation using registry, EHR, claims, and other real-world data sources.
• Serve as senior project lead for complex quality measurement initiatives, ensuring scientific rigor, operational excellence, budget management, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Support business development efforts by contributing to proposals, scopes of work, budgets, and presentations for prospective partners and sponsors.
• Monitor national trends in quality measurement, digital quality measures (dQMs), electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), interoperability, and value-based care models.
• Present findings, methodologies, and strategic recommendations to executive leadership, sponsors, advisory groups, and external audiences.
• Mentor and support cross-functional teams involved in measure development, implementation science, and quality improvement activities.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Public Health (MPH), Health Services Research, Healthcare Administration, Nursing, Clinical Informatics, Epidemiology, or related field preferred.
• 3 years of relevant experience in healthcare quality measurement, clinical research, healthcare analytics, population health, or quality improvement.
• 3 years of leadership experience.
• Experience leading clinical quality measure development, implementation, stewardship, or evaluation initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare quality measurement methodologies, including eCQMs, dQMs, outcome measures, process measures, and patient-reported outcome measures.
• Experience working with clinical data sources, including EHRs, registries, claims data, and other real-world data assets.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives with executive visibility and external stakeholder engagement.
• Strong understanding of healthcare quality reporting programs, accreditation, certification, and value-based care models.
• Excellent project management skills with demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously.
• Strong verbal, written, and executive presentation skills.
• Able to translate clinical, scientific, and technical concepts into actionable business and operational strategies.
• Superior attention to detail; outstanding organization and prioritization skills.
• Working knowledge of MS Office Suite applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project).