Jason Meadows
Jason Meadows, MD, is a physician executive and healthcare improvement leader whose work focuses on quality, patient safety, operational excellence, and organizational learning.
He trained in internal medicine at the University of Hawaii and completed a fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. His path into quality improvement began there in 2015, when he was asked to lead the quality improvement curriculum for a fellowship program.
What started as preparation for a teaching role became a broader professional focus. Through systems thinking, safety science, operational excellence, and improvement methodology, he came to see many of healthcare’s recurring frustrations not as isolated failures, but as predictable consequences of how complex systems are designed and managed.
From 2018 to 2021, Jason served as physician lead for Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Operational Excellence Program, supporting large-scale improvement work across the organization. In 2021, he became the inaugural Chief Quality Officer at Windsor Regional Hospital in Ontario, Canada, where he has led work in quality strategy, patient safety, operational improvement, and organizational capability.
Across these roles, one principle has remained central to his work: meaningful improvement requires more than talented people, good intentions, or isolated projects. It requires organizations that can understand their systems, learn effectively, and improve deliberately over time.
In 2025, Jason launched Leading Quality, a podcast exploring the people, ideas, and organizations shaping the future of healthcare improvement. The Leading Quality newsletter extends that work through original essays, analysis, and practical frameworks focused on how better healthcare systems are built, led, and improved.
Together, the podcast and newsletter are intended for clinicians, executives, educators, and improvement professionals seeking a deeper understanding of how meaningful change happens inside complex healthcare organizations.
