Professional Bio:

Dr. Steven M. Bradley is an Associate Cardiologist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute and the Minneapolis Heart Institute Center for Healthcare Delivery Innovation (MHI-HDI). Dr. Bradley’s interests are focused on implementing novel approaches to care delivery that achieve optimal patient outcomes and experience at lower cost. Dr. Bradley previously served as the Associate Director of the VA National Clinical Assessment Reporting and Tracking Program (VA CART), the national clinical quality program for VA cardiac catheterization laboratories. In this role, Dr. Bradley led the implementation of an automated system to capture patient-reported health status measures for coronary artery disease and efforts to map cardiac catheterization laboratory processes associated with variation in cost. Dr. Bradley has led grant funded research supported by VA Health Services Research & Development, the VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative, and the American Heart Association and he was recently awarded the 2017 American College of Cardiology Douglas P. Zipes Distinguished Young Scientist Award. He has provided his expertise as a volunteer in the American Heart Association Get With the Guidelines (GWTG) Program and continues as an active leader in the GWTG Program. In his current role, he seeks to address quality gaps and unnecessary variation in healthcare delivery with patient-centered solutions.