Kimiyoshi Kobayashi, MD, MBA is Chief Medical Officer at UMass Memorial Medical Center (850-bed academic center, Central MA). He leads quality, safety, and capacity and oversees Hospital Medicine, eICU, Employee Health, and Palliative Care, and mentors physician leaders. He joined UMass in 2019 as Chief Quality Officer, founded the Center for Quality & Safety, and helped lift CMS from 1 to 4 stars in four years. His research covers handoff safety, patient transfers, and how capacity affects outcomes. National service includes the Vizient AMC CQO Network Steering Committee and SHM’s Quality & Patient Safety Committee. Previously, he held leadership roles in informatics, clinical operations, and capacity at Mass General and Johns Hopkins. MD Johns Hopkins; MBA Harvard Business School; Internal Medicine residency, Mass General. 

Dr. Lawrence Yang is a Surrey, BC family physician in practice since 2008.  He has served as Head of Family Medicine at Surrey Memorial Hospital and sits on the boards of the Health Data Coalition and the Surrey–North Delta Division of Family Practice. He earned his MD at Ross University School of Medicine (2005) and completed a Family Medicine residency at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY (2005–2008).  He has pursued leadership development through SFU Beedie, UBC Sauder, and Fraser Health’s Physician Quality Improvement program. Yang has also spoken publicly about his own experience with burnout and now leads physician-wellness and Joy in Work workshops across Canada as well as at the 2024 Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Annual Forum.