Neil Wagle (Partners Healthcare) Neil Wagle is the Associate Chief Quality Officer at Partners HealthCare, leading the system’s efforts on Ambulatory Quality within the Division of Quality Safety and Value and the Center for Population Health. He is an international expert on Partners Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement program, and has led the Partners program through hundreds of thousands of data collections across dozens of specialties throughout the Partners network. He is a leading voice for the transition to more clinically relevant quality measures including the use of clinical registries, working to transform quality measurement to something that enhances rather than distracts from the essence of clinical care.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry magna cum laude from Harvard University and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School cum laude in the Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology where he was awarded a Howard Hughes Fellowship. After his experience in two startup ventures, he earned an M.B.A. with High Distinction from Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar where he focused on health care management. Neil practices primary care at Brigham and Women’s Primary Physicians.