Amir A. Ghaferi, M.D., M.Sc., M.B.A.

Dr. Ghaferi is the inaugural Executive Vice President and System Chief Clinical Officer for UChicago Medicine and the University of Chicago. In this role, he is charged with strengthening alignment across UChicago Medicine's physician practices and medical groups, advancing clinical innovation and new models of care, improving operational performance, supporting growth, and enhancing the patient and clinician experience. The role encompasses clinical and ambulatory strategy across the faculty practice plan, medical groups, clinically integrated network, and offsite locations.

Prior to moving to the University of Chicago, Dr. Ghaferi was a Professor of Surgery with Tenure, the President and CEO of the Physician Enterprise, and Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at Froedtert ThedaCare Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin. In these roles, he leads the enterprise strategy for establishing and advancing a regionally integrated and aligned medical group operation. Prior to that, he was the Moses Gunn, M.D. Professor of Surgery and the Chief Clinical Officer of the University of Michigan Medical Group where he oversaw clinical operations, quality, strategy, and finance. He was also the Director of the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative, a consortium of 40 hospitals and 80 surgeons focused on improving the safety and quality of bariatric surgery.

He received his Bachelors degree from UCLA, his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and completed his surgical training at the University of Michigan. Dr. Ghaferi also completed advanced training in health services research and obtained a Masters degree in Health and Healthcare Research from the University of Michigan. He also completed his Executive MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.

Dr. Ghaferi's ongoing research focuses on understanding the relationship of organizational systems and design to quality and efficiency. Dr. Ghaferi has received research funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). His research has been published in prominent journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Health Affairs, Harvard Business Review, and the British Medical Journal. He also serves on the editorial board of several prominent journals including JAMA Surgery and is Associate Editor of GI Surgery for the Journal of Surgical Research.

Dr. Ghaferi is an active member of several national societies (Association for Academic Surgery, Society of University Surgeons, American Surgical Association, AcademyHealth) and serves on, chairs, or co-chairs several national committees. He is a Past-President of the Surgical Outcomes Club – the largest surgical health services research group in the world. He is also a Past President of the Association for Academic Surgery – the largest academic surgical association in the US. Dr. Ghaferi is passionate about inspiring and developing academic surgeons across the globe.