Daria Yang

Biography

Daria Yang, MD, MPH is a Senior leader in Quality and Public Health. She has dedicated her career to advancing the Quality of Care for Patients in a number of medium to large Healthcare systems across the country.
Dr. Yang currently teaches Quality and Public Health Leadership to Graduate students at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health in Chapel Hill and preceptor for Doctorate in Nursing students at Georgetown University.  She most recently served as Vice President of Quality, Patient Safety and Ethics and Compliance Officer for HCA TriStar Division's Horizon Medical Center.  Her leadership experience spans a number of national healthcare systems at Providence-Saint Joseph's Health System, HCA Healthcare and Common Spirit Health.

She has over a decade of experience overseeing Quality, Risk management, Compliance, Infection Prevention and Utilization services. She has successfully lead her previous facilities throughout many Joint Commission surveys and certifications. During her career, she has implemented countless quality improvement initiatives and advanced hospital overall rankings in quality metrics. Before her dedication to the Quality world, Daria worked as the Operations Specialist to rebrand the acute inpatient rehabilitation services at Common Spirit in San Francisco, CA and Biopharmaceutical research at Sutter Health Research Institute in California.

Daria received her Bachelor of Arts in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, then achieved her Master’s in Public Health at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT. She received her doctor of medicine at the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine. She is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality, Green Belt in Lean Six-Sigma Methodology, and a long-time member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

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