Dr. Baligh Yehia, senior medical director at Johns
Hopkins Medicine and former deputy under secretary for health at the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), will discuss how to transform ideas into
practice and share lessons learned on creating change in complex health systems
at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 16, in the Pugh Hall Ocora.
There will be a student talk at 5 p.m. (prior
to the public program) in Pugh Hall’s second floor O’Neill Reading Room. To
sign up for the student talk, go to https://goo.gl/forms/QZc37KOWhzZN9GHT2.
Yehia is a change agent experienced in architecting
and leading change in complex health systems and networks. Yehia is committed
to improving the patient experience and drives initiatives focused on clinical
integration, quality improvement and system redesign at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
At VA, Dr. Yehia led the department in its transformational journey to provide
veterans with easy access to personalized care from a network of VA and
community providers. He oversaw VA’s Community Care Network, which includes
over 550,000 federal, academic, and private partners who deliver outpatient,
inpatient, extended care, telehealth, and home care services to over 1.5
million veterans annually.
A nationally recognized expert in HIV medicine and
health equality, Yehia has published more than 150 articles, abstracts,
chapters and white papers in leading journals. He has made important
contributions to the understanding of patient engagement in health care, and
individual and environmental factors influencing access to and participation in
care.
Yehia is board certified in internal medicine and
infectious diseases. He received his bachelor’s and medical degrees from the
University of Florida, completed internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins
Hospital, and infectious diseases fellowship at the Hospital of the University
of Pennsylvania. He also holds a master’s in public policy from Princeton
University and master’s in health policy research from the University of
Pennsylvania.
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