Donna M. Daniel, PhD, is the corporate director for quality measurement and improvement at Atlantic Health. Dr. Daniel is responsible for quality measurement and performance improvement for Atlantic Health’s hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
Dr. Daniel trained with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) with emphasis in quality improvement methodology; registry development, measurement and data tracking; and spread theory. She served as improvement director and technical advisor for several state and national IHI-like Breakthrough Series Collaboratives in a variety of clinical topics and health care settings. Dr. Daniel served as a faculty member with IHI for the national QIO training program on the Breakthrough Series Collaborative model. In 2004, she began her training in lean methods specifically applied to healthcare.
She currently conducts workshops on lean, 5s, value-stream mapping, and other improvement tools. Dr. Daniel also serves as a coach and mentor for the AAFP’s Practice Enhancement Forum. Dr. Daniel is a member of the American Heart Association’s Get with the Guidelines Quality Improvement Subcommittee and a member of the New Jersey Performance Improvement Task Force.
Dr. Daniel received a Bachelor of Science degree, magna cum laude, in mathematics and statistics from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She received her doctorate in biometry and epidemiology from Medical University of South Carolina.
