Kedar Mate, MD is Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Qualified Health AI, a Palo Alto–based digital health company deploying the critical infrastructure needed to create the AI-enabled hospital of the future. He also serves as a Senior Scholar at Stanford University, is a member of the faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine, and co-hosts the podcast Turn On The Lights with Don Berwick, which explores and demystifies healthcare’s most difficult challenges. Previously, Dr. Mate was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), the world’s leading organization in healthcare quality and patient safety, where he also served as President of the IHI Lucian Leape Institute and as Chief Innovation and Education Officer. His scholarly work has focused on health system design, quality improvement, strategies for achieving large-scale change, and approaches to improving value in healthcare. Earlier in his career, Dr. Mate worked in global public health with Partners In Health, in hospital leadership at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and within global policy at the World Health Organization. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and white papers and has received multiple honors, including serving as a Soros Fellow, Fulbright Specialist, Zetema Panelist, and Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow. Dr. Mate graduated from Brown University with a degree in American History and from Harvard Medical School with his medical degree. Across his career, his mission has been to spark bold, inventive ways to improve the health of individuals and populations, and to support anyone, anywhere seeking to create a future in which every person has access to the best care and health possible.