Read G. Pierce MD

Read G. Pierce. M.D. is a practicing internist and an experienced healthcare leader, coach, and facilitator who enjoys working at the intersection of organizational culture and complex clinical systems. In addition to seeing patients at the University of Colorado, he concurrently serves as IHE Senior Consultant, and in this role works with health systems around the country on clinical transformation, creating healthy workplace culture, and increasing the performance of physicians, clinical teams, and healthcare leaders.

He helped found the Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Efficiency (IHQSE) based at the University of Colorado, and from 2012 to 2019 helped lead organizational transformation initiatives at University of Colorado through the IHQSE, including programs focused on quality, culture, teamwork, systems redesign, finance, clinical innovation, and leadership of change. As part of these efforts, he worked with more than 80 clinical microsystems on the Anschutz Medical Campus to improve quality, patient safety, experience, costs of care, and turnover.

Dr. Pierce attended medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where he completed an area of concentration in Health Systems/Health Leadership, and then did his internship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston before returning to San Francisco for residency and chief residency in internal medicine.