Dr. Erin DuPree is a nationally recognized leader in health care improvement, quality, and patient safety.

As the former Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare, the innovative affiliate of the nation’s leading health care accreditor, Dr. DuPree collaborated with leading organizations including the Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts General Hospital, Kaiser Permanente, and others to tackle their toughest quality issues and transform the industry to a high-reliability industry using a rigorous, data-driven, systematic improvement methodology, Robust Process Improvement^®, based on Lean, Six Sigma, and change management. She facilitated hospital leadership teams in their self-assessment of high reliability and led the spread of solutions to thousands of health care organizations, nationally and globally, through the development and launch of innovative digital platforms. This spread was augmented with payers, associations, governmental agencies, and medical board organizations. Additionally, Dr. DuPree served as a Senior Advisory Board Member for a federally funded grant focused on Hospital Quality and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Severe Maternal Morbidity.

Prior to The Joint Commission, Dr. DuPree served as the Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Vice President for Patient Safety and subsequently as Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs for Mount Sinai Medical Center. Her work with clinical and operational leaders across the institution to solve complex organizational and operational issues including infections, patient experience, value-based purchasing metrics, and safety culture ultimately resulted in improved patient care and increased patient satisfaction. As a Physician Informaticist, Dr. DuPree also led the faculty practice ambulatory EPIC implementations and created the governance structure. Concurrently, she held leadership roles with external partners: The Joint Commission to address the problem of wrong-site surgery; the General Electric Patient Safety Advisory Board; and as an Innovation Advisor with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to test new models of care delivery.

Dr. DuPree’s early achievements at Mount Sinai in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science as Vice-Chair of Quality included the implementation of an obstetrics database, an event reporting system, and collaboration with malpractice carrier to improve obstetrical outcomes, which helped to reduce malpractice premium costs. Dr. DuPree also spearheaded the creation of the patient safety educational conference, “Misses, Morbidity and Mortality”.

Dr. DuPree has an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and received her medical degree from Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. She is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist. Dr. DuPree resides in New York City with her husband and their daughter.