Dr. Shawn Griffin is the President/ CEO at URAC. He leads one of most trusted independent accrediting organizations in the country and one of the broadest health accreditors in the world. Dr. Griffin is a nationally recognized subject matter expert on health care quality, workplace mental health, rural health, and physician leadership. He currently serves as a co-chair for the National Quality Forum’s Leadership Consortium. He received the 2024 Salus Award for Individual Voices in Workplace Mental Health. He previously served as Vice President for Clinical Performance Improvement and Applied Analytics at Premier and Chief Quality and Informatics Officer for MHMD—The Memorial Hermann Physician Network in Houston while it was the most successful ACO’s in the country. He served as the initial Chief Medical Information Officer for both Baylor College of Medicine and Heartland Health. He trained in Rural Family Medicine and practiced in Iowa and Missouri.