Kimiyoshi Kobayashi, MD, MBA
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.