Dr. Ahmad Pardazi is a healthcare operations and quality improvement expert with 20 years of multidisciplinary leadership experience in acute care hospitals, ambulatory clinics, and healthcare support organizations. He has spent the majority of his career in roles leading quality improvement, operational planning, and strategic deployment. For the last 8 years he has also served in various faculty roles across several Arizona colleges and universities, teaching healthcare quality, risk management, healthcare delivery systems, and current industry trends. Dr. Pardazi earned his doctoral degree in business and managerial theory, with his doctoral dissertation specifically focused on high reliability organizing (HRO) and high reliability theory (HRT) in healthcare. He has published research on how management, clinicians, and organizations adopt high reliability practices into their organizational cultures and workflows and maintains a continued research interest in understanding how healthcare enterprises make the transition to becoming highly reliable. Dr. Pardazi is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and holds active certifications as a Project Management Professional, Certified Healthcare Compliance Professional, Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality, and Certified Six Sigma Black Belt from the ASU Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering.
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