2025 HQI and Hospital Council Annual Conference

Lee Erickson, MD, LSSMBB 
Chief Executive Officer 
Adaptient, LLC 
Lee has more than 25 years of experience in health care transformation. Before founding Adaptient, Lee held executive leadership roles at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Tufts Medicine, working to improve safety, quality, and operations by redesigning the delivery of patient-centered care. As a primary care physician and Lean/Six-Sigma Master Black Belt, Lee maintained a clinical faculty role wherever she worked; she is an engaging and savvy teacher.

Harold Ford, Jr.
Former five-term Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. is a co-host of FNC’s The Five, is a frequent contributor to Special Report with Bret Baier, and has been a regular guest on networks like NBC’s Meet the Press, MSNBC, CNN, and CNBC, discussing political issues. Ford Jr. is currently a Vice Chair and EVP in PNC’s corporate and institutional banking business. He is also the former Chair and CEO of Empowerment & Inclusion Capital I Corporation.

Christopher Krawczyk, PhD
Chief Analytics Officer
California Department of Health Care Access and Information
Dr. Christopher Krawczyk is Chief Analytics Officer with the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI), Information Services Division. Dr. Krawczyk oversees strategic direction for analyses of health care quality, outcomes, utilization, and cost.  Dr. Krawczyk also oversees data services and facilitates stakeholder engagement to increase the usefulness and impact of HCAI data products.

Scott Masten, PhD 
Vice President, Measurement Science & Performance Analytics 
Hospital Quality Institute (HQI)  
In his work for HQI, Dr. Masten focuses on improving health care data quality and reducing patient injury, including the development of both data intake and data analytics platforms. He does this by bringing over 20 years of applied research and data experience including teaching research methods and statistics courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.