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Speaker S. Nicholas Desai

Date – Time

August 10, 2022 – 7:20 AM - 8:00 AM

Location

Sugar Creek Country Club
420 Sugar Creek Blvd
Sugar Land, TX 77478 US

Additional Information

S. Nicholas Desai, DPM, MBA, FACFAS

Chief Medical & Quality Officer, Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital

Former Chief Medical Information Officer, Houston Methodist

Email: [email protected]

EHR Direct Address: [email protected]

 

S. Nicholas Desai, DPM, MBA, FACFAS is the chief medical officer and chief quality officer of Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital. He is also a practicing physician in the Houston Methodist Specialty Physician Group in Houston, Texas.

 

Dr. Desai is a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon and tenured healthcare executive with experience in large-scale integrated delivery networks. As CMO/CQO at HMSL, Dr. Desai is a senior executive whose focus is to bridge the gap between innovation, clinical quality, and operations across the organization. In his prior role as system CMIO, his focus was serving Houston Methodist physicians and staff, providing digitally innovative tools that promoted efficiency and allowed clinicians to focus on patient care. His overarching goal has always been to help clinicians leverage digital IT solutions that make the “P2P” (physician-patient) experience simple, mobile, and intuitive. Desai has led large-scale IT clinical implementations across various health systems with strategic focus on clinical transformation and financial stewardship as we shift from volume to value-based care. In 2021, Desai was selected to the inaugural class of Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Innovators.

 

From a clinical perspective, Desai has been practicing at Houston Methodist for over 15 years in combined administrative and clinical roles with a subspecialty care focus on adult and pediatric foot and ankle surgery. Desai remains active in clinical research with a specialized lower extremity focus with respect to cardiovascular disease, limb salvage, biomechanics and reconstructive foot surgery.

 

Prior to joining Houston Methodist, Desai was at Memorial Hermann, where he served in both clinical and administrative leadership roles, including Chief of Surgery, Vice President of Medical Staff and Regional Medical Director of Information Technology. While at Memorial Hermann, key focus areas included design and implementation of Cerner Millennium Application Suite (Care4), development of clinical workflows and order set enterprise standardization, development of medical device integration standards, implementation of cost efficiencies in OR throughput and achievement of Leapfrog Safety recognition.

 

At his core, Desai is a physician first but is also a passionate investor, entrepreneur and incubator for early stage and small to mid-sector healthcare firms. He has led many private equity and family fund JV relationships across the Texas, New York and California markets. To date, Desai has been involved in several large-scale healthcare technology startups and helped launch the IPO of two of these companies.

 

Desai is an avid oenophile, a father of two, and enjoys golf, tennis, and traveling. He is a philanthropist at heart, supporting charities involving children in the US and abroad.