A distinguished clinician and researcher, Dr. Mathews comes from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he practices gastroenterology. For the past three years he has served as Head of Clinical Innovation at the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. He led the institute’s efforts to improve clinical outcomes, patient experience, and healthcare value using technology. His research has focused on understanding and improving the quality of digital health.
Mathews earned his medical degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed his residency and clinical training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at Johns Hopkins. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed papers, including those featured in JAMA, Gastroenterology, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Health Affairs, and Digital Medicine. Prior to his career in medicine, he worked briefly in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in New York. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia where he studied economics as a Jefferson Scholar.
Published Articles
- Reply: Some considerations on digital health validation
- Redefining Accountability in Quality and Safety at Academic Medical Centers
- Digital health: a path to validation
- Physician autonomy and informed decision making: finding the balance for patient safety and quality
- The Need for Systems Integration in Health Care
- Focus on Quality: An Opportunity to Execute Health Care Reform
- Commentary: Establishing Safety and Quality as Core Values: A Hospital Road Map
- Management’s Discussion and Analysis: A tool for advancing quality and safety
- Advancing health care quality and safety through action learning
- A Model for the Departmental Quality Management Infrastructure Within an Academic Health System
- How to Incorporate Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Projects in Your Training
- Latent risk assessment tool for health care leaders
- A framework for operationalizing risk: A practical approach to patient safety
- A Department of Medicine Infrastructure for Patient Safety and Clinical Quality Improvement
- Fellow Education Improved Through Mobile Clinical Decision Support Application: A Multi-Center Approach Involving Peri-Procedural Antithrombotic Use