John M Hollingsworth, MD, MSc : Bio and credentials

I am a urologist and tenured professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine. I currently serve as chief quality officer for UF Health. In this role, I am the senior executive responsible for advancing clinical quality, patient safety, patient experience and regulatory performance across a statewide academic health system. UF Health employs more than 30,000 faculty and staff, provides care to over 4 million patients annually, and operates 12 hospitals and hundreds of physician practices and outpatient facilities throughout Northeast, North Central and Central Florida.

I assumed my system-level role after serving as chief quality officer for UF Health Shands Hospital, a quaternary academic medical center in Gainesville, and for UF Health Physicians, a 1,000-physician multispecialty group practice (2024–25). Prior to joining UF Health, I led clinical excellence initiatives at Endeavor Health, where I served as chief of acute care quality and patient safety for Evanston, Skokie, Glenbrook and Highland Park Hospitals (2022–24). In addition to my executive leadership, I am an internationally recognized health services researcher with more than a decade of continuous federal funding and over 190 peer-reviewed publications. My work has reshaped approaches to kidney stone management, advanced methods for studying physician patient-sharing networks, informed the design of delivery system reforms such as Accountable Care Organizations and contributed to national policy discussions on strategies to strengthen hospital performance.