Don Goldmann

Don Goldmann has transformed healthcare quality improvement and infectious disease research through his multifaceted career spanning clinical care, research, and education. After graduating from Harvard Medical School and serving as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at CDC, he built an extraordinary career combining bench science with healthcare systems improvement. As Chief Scientific Officer Emeritus at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Professor at Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health, he has authored over 230 peer-reviewed publications while pioneering approaches to healthcare-associated infections, antibiotic stewardship, and quality improvement science. His groundbreaking work includes developing the first standardized antibiotic order sets, leading CDC taskforces on antibiotic resistance, and establishing new frameworks for evaluating improvement initiatives. As founder of the Harvard-wide Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship Program and director of Boston Children's Hospital's Microbiology Lab, he has shaped both research and clinical practice while mentoring the next generation of healthcare leaders. Through his current work integrating improvement science with health information technology and addressing clinician burnout, he continues to advance healthcare quality while teaching about the intersection of infectious diseases with social justice and human history.