Elizabeth Mort, MD, MPH
Elizabeth Mort is a practicing primary care general internist and serves as the senior vice president of quality and safety and chief quality officer at the MGH and the MGPO. She has broad expertise and extensive experience in advancing systems of care to improve the health outcome of all patients. Dr. Mort has extensive experience in health care quality measurement, quality, and safety improvement, managed care medical management strategies, health care equity, and pay for performance. At MGH, she oversees the Lawrence Center for Quality & Safety and is responsible for high stakes quality and safety measurement and improvement work across a broad range of initiatives that span the full continuum of care. At Mass General Brigham, she chaired the Chief Quality Officers Council from 2018-2022.
Dr. Mort is nationally recognized as an expert in Quality and Safety. She conducts research and presents nationally and internationally on her research and her lessons learned from her leadership roles. She has held leadership roles on regional, state, and national committees. She was on the AHA panel on Healthcare Acquired Conditions. She co-chaired the Mass Medical Society’s committee on the quality of medical practice. Dr. Mort has been a member of the NCQA’s Women’s Health Measurement Advisory Panel and the NQF Steering Committee for Additional Priorities for Acute Hospital Quality Measures among others. Dr. Mort also served on the NQF Expert Panel for Patient Reported Outcome measures, was co-chair of the NQF Expert panel on Measuring Affordability from the Patient’s Perspective, and was a member of the NQF Person and Family Centered Care Steering Committee. She served on the CMS Hospital Quality Stars Leadership Work Group. She is the co-chair of the Vizient Chief Quality Officers Steering Committee. Dr. Mort was appointed to the AHA Committee of Clinical Leadership effective January 2022. Dr. Mort has been listed in Becker’s Hospital Review - 50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety routinely since 2013.
Dr. Mort is an accomplished mentor and educator. She has mentored many fellows in the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Quality and Patient Safety program, some who are now on her faculty and others who have found leadership roles in excellent institutions. Dr. Mort is the course director for the Applied Quality and Safety in the new master’s program and she directed a very successful HMS CME course launched last year, Quality and Safety in Clinical Operations, which will be offered again this spring. She is also an accomplished public speaker and participates locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
Dr. Mort completed her residency in primary care internal medicine at MGH followed by a fellowship at the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. She received a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Michigan in Health Planning and Administration and Population Planning. Dr. Mort is an associate professor in both the Department of Medicine and Health Care Policy at HMS.