Nancy R. Beran, MD, MHCDS, FACP, CPE

Nancy Beran, MD, MHCDS, FACP, CPE, is the vice president and chief quality officer for ambulatory at Northwell Health.  In this role, Dr. Beran develops system-wide quality improvement initiatives for an ambulatory network of over 800 sites and 2 million patients.  She creates standardized performace dashboards and designs key performance indicators for ambulatory quality.  Dr. Beran established an Ambulatory Quality Improvement Collaborative (AQIC) designed to create a system-standardized approach to improve population health on key disease processes and key performance indicators.  She is focused on identifying at risk populations, creating programs to help address inequities and barriers to care, and building programs to improve access and escalation.

Previously Dr. Beran served as chief medical officer of Westchester Health Medical. She has presented on women leadership in practice management and on collaborative care strategies to support behavioral health in ambulatory care. Dr. Beran received a grant from the Katz Institute for Women’s Health for Healthy Mom-Happy Child: Screening and Treatment of Depression during the Child Rearing Years.

She is affiliated with the following professional organizations: American Association for Physician Leadership, AMGA and AMGA’s CMO council, American College of Physicians-Fellow, Westchester County Medical Association, Medical Society of the State of New York, and Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Dr. Beran completed her residency in internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern at Dallas and served as chief resident in primary care at Dallas Veterans Medical Center.  She earned her medical degree from Thomas Jefferson Medical College