Maren Batalden

Maren Batalden, MD, MPH, is the chief quality officer at CHA. Maren has played a key role at CHA for many years, previously serving as associate chief quality officer before assuming interim CQO responsibilities in November 2019.

She has provided leadership for improvement projects focused on inpatient care, care transitions and cross-continuum population health for patients with chronic disease. She created and continues to direct the CHA-Gold Innovation Fellowship Program, which provides a platform for CHA clinicians and leaders to grow their skills in improvement science and change management.

As part of the Incident Command team that guided CHA's COVID-19 response, Dr. Batalden provided compassionate and critical leadership to help build CHA’s inpatient capacity, apply evidence-based and data-driven solutions, develop modeling to forecast resource needs, and establish policies and protocols to ensure CHA delivered the very best care to their patients and communities. Dr. Batalden is clinically active as a hospitalist and has represented the CHA medical staff as a member of CHA’s Board of Trustees. She is a national authority on using the lens of co-production to create effective partnerships between patients and care teams.

Dr. Batalden completed her undergraduate education at St. Olaf College in Minnesota and earned a master’s degree in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed an internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Batalden is an assistant professor of medicine at HMS, where she teaches quality, safety and systems improvement.