Accelerate Diagnostics appoints Charles Watts to board
Staff Writer |
Tucson, Az., USA - November 17, 2017, Tucson, Az., USA - Accelerate Diagnostics, an in vitro diagnostics company, announced the election of Charles Watts to the company’s board of directors.
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Dr. Watts has held a number of clinical and administrative leadership positions at two renowned academic medical centers, Northwestern (Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital) and the University of Michigan, and with his training and extensive clinical career as a Pulmonary-Critical Care specialist.
Dr. Watts served as Chief Medical Officer at Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University from 2001 to 2011.
He directed the quality and patient safety programs and was responsible for oversight and support of the clinical programs at NMH, which was recognized as a national leader in quality of care by the University Health System Consortium and Leapfrog, among others.
Dr. Watts's teaching activities included courses at Kellogg (Introduction to the American Healthcare System) and the Masters Program in Patient Safety.
Prior to his tenure at Northwestern, Dr. Watts served as Chief of Clinical Affairs and Associate Dean at the University of Michigan Medical Center.
While at Michigan he was Medical Director of Critical Care and actively involved in a number of multi-center critical care research projects including the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Network and the development and implementation of the APACHE score, a nationally used tool for measuring severity of illness and predicting outcomes in critically ill patients.
Dr. Watts received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Michigan. His research interests have included severity adjustment in the ICU, quality improvement measurement, and acute respiratory distress syndrome.
He has also served as Executive in Residence for the Health Management Academy, as an active faculty member of a nationally based Physician Leadership Program.
Dr. Watts has served as a Director of Providence Health and Services (Seattle, Washington) from 2012 to 2016 where he chaired the Quality and Patient Safety Improvement Committee, and recently served as a Trustee of Swedish Health Services, Inc. until June of this year. ■