Full Name
Darlene Tad-Y, MD
Job Title
Associate Chief Medical Officer for Patient Flow, University of Colorado Hospital; Medical Director, Capacity Management and Patient Flow
Company
UCHealth
Speaker Bio
As ACMO for Patient Flow, Dr Tad-y oversees efforts to optimize operational efficiency and ensure patients receive the right care, at the right time, in the right setting. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (CU) where she is an academic hospitalist.

Dr. Tad-y authored and co-directs the quality improvement curriculum and annual pre-course for the American College of Physicians, teaches for the Quality and Safety Educators Academy and is an Assistant Editor for the Joint Commission Journal of Quality and Patient Safety. She serves on the Board for the Society of Hospital Medicine and Prime Health. In prior roles, Dr. Tad-y led statewide quality and safety initiatives in Colorado hospitals, including workforce development and physician engagement, hospital emergency preparedness and innovation as the VP of Clinical Affairs for the Colorado Hospital Association. She is a past Board member of Colorado’s state health information exchange, Contexture.

Dr. Tad-y earned her medical degree from St. George’s University, completed Internal Medicine residency at NYU Langone Hospital – Brooklyn and hospital medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins Bayview.

Pubmed publications: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Tad-y+darlene
Darlene Tad-Y, MD