Director, Clinical Quality Measures

Overview

Since our founding in 1924, we've cut cardiovascular disease deaths in half, but there is still so much more to do. To overcome today’s biggest health challenges and accelerate this progress, we need passionate individuals like you. Join our movement, be part of the progress, and help ensure a healthier future for all. You matter, and so does the impact you can make with us.

 

The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Director, Clinical Quality Measures, supporting our National Center office located in Dallas, TX. This role can be home-based.

 

This is a full-time, benefits-eligible, grant-funded opportunity. Current funding will expire 08/30/2027 with the possibility of extension.

 

The Director, Clinical Quality Measures, will provide strategic leadership for the development, implementation, maintenance, and dissemination of clinical quality measures that advance cardiovascular and brain health outcomes. This role will oversee a portfolio of measure development initiatives, performance improvement programs, and industry-sponsored quality projects designed to improve care delivery, support value-based care, and drive measurable improvements in patient outcomes.

 

This position serves as a key leader across Clinical Research, Quality, Outcomes Research & Analytics (QORA), National Corporate Relations, Advocacy, and Scientific Affairs to translate evidence-based guidelines into scalable quality measurement solutions. The Director will work closely with healthcare systems, clinicians, payers, professional societies, government agencies, and industry partners to advance innovative quality measurement strategies and implementation efforts.

 

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

 

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Responsibilities

This position serves as a key leader across Clinical Research, Quality, Outcomes Research & Analytics (QORA), National Corporate Relations, Advocacy, and Scientific Affairs to translate evidence-based guidelines into scalable quality measurement solutions. The Director will work closely with healthcare systems, clinicians, payers, professional societies, government agencies, and industry partners to advance innovative quality measurement strategies and implementation efforts.

 

• Lead the strategic development, execution, and maintenance of the American Heart Association's portfolio of clinical quality measures across cardiovascular, stroke, and related therapeutic areas.
• Direct measure development activities, including environmental scans, literature reviews, technical expert panel engagement, specification development, testing, validation, and implementation planning.
• Oversee measure stewardship activities and ensure compliance with applicable standards and reporting requirements.
• Collaborate with clinical experts, scientific volunteers, healthcare organizations, and external stakeholders to identify priority areas for quality measurement and performance improvement.
• Lead industry-sponsored quality measurement and evidence-generation initiatives focused on improving healthcare quality, outcomes, and guideline adherence.
• Translate clinical practice guidelines into actionable quality measures that support value-based care, accreditation, certification, and quality improvement programs.
• Collaborate with Quality Improvement, QORA, and Data Science teams to evaluate measure performance and identify opportunities for innovation using registry, EHR, claims, and other real-world data sources.
• Develop and manage relationships with healthcare systems, payers, federal agencies, professional societies, and industry partners.
• Serve as senior project lead for complex quality measurement initiatives, ensuring scientific rigor, operational excellence, budget management, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Support business development efforts by contributing to proposals, scopes of work, budgets, and presentations for prospective partners and sponsors.
• Monitor national trends in quality measurement, digital quality measures (dQMs), electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), interoperability, and value-based care models.
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