Charles R. Denham Ii MD

Dr. Denham is the founder of HCC Corporation, an innovation accelerator with a calling to save lives, save money, and create value in communities. He is pioneering direct contracting between employers and providers for high performance healthcare at Centers of Excellence. Ranked 38th of 50 Most Powerful Physician Executives by Modern Healthcare in 2012, he is described as a global authority in value-based innovation, and serves on the Wall Street Journal forum and has a regular column titled “The Experts.” Founder of TMIT, the not-for-profit medical research organization, he has had a supporting role in leadership, practices, and technology innovations that have led to safer care for children and vulnerable populations over 30 years. He has been involved in developing more than 400 products, companies, and solutions. He has chaired the Leapfrog Group Safe Practices program to guide purchasing of healthcare by Fortune 500 companies and funded and developed their first safe practices scorecard. Authoring more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, he is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Patient Safety. He is an adjunct professor at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in health systems engineering and on the faculty of Harvard Medical School teaching leadership and integration innovation. He serves the Institute of Medicine on their President’s Circle. He cofounded the Global Patient Safety Team and is a collaborator with the World Health Organization. He chaired the NQF Safe Practices program for the last decade.