Joshua Cartwright, DHA

Joshua Cartwright is an Associate Partner in Clinical Transformation at Chartis focused on clinical compliance and high reliability care. Joshua has over 15+ years of experience as a seasoned professional dedicated to healthcare organizational excellence, with quality and patient safety as his guiding compass.

Joshua has advocated to advance quality programs and patient safety on the national stages with large academic organizations, not-for-profits and with professional organizations like the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and with The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). He has developed large award-winning pilots that have advanced care collaboration across both state and federal programs, and continues to advance his research through authored works focused on care delivery, community engagement and proactive screening for social drivers of health.

Before joining Chartis, Joshua was privileged to lead quality and patient safety at a Johns Hopkins Medicine entity and held a leadership role with the prestigious Johns Hopkins Health System Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. Prior to this he led quality reporting and performance measurement with Presbyterian Health System in New Mexico and served as a lead consultant with TMF Health Quality Institute QIN-QIO CMS Contractor during the 11^th Scope of Work. Joshua started his early quality career in transplant and cardiovascular and thoracic surgery with UT Southwestern Medical Center and Southwest Transplant Alliance in Dallas, Texas.

Joshua is an alum of the Medical University of South Carolina, where he completed his Doctor of Health Administration. He holds a Master of Healthcare Leadership from Brown University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Management from Texas A&M University-Commerce. His academic career also includes an Associate of Science in Biology from Dallas College. In addition to his professional responsibilities, Cartwright is an active member of the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award National Examiner Board and a Fellow of the American College of Health Data Management.