Rate My Professor Darlene Tad-y

Darlene Tad-y, MD, MBA, SFHM, serves as Adjoint Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She earned a BS from Truman State University in 2000, an MD from St. George’s University School of Medicine in 2005, completed an Internal Medicine residency at Lutheran Medical Center in 2008, and a fellowship in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins University/Bayview Medical Center in 2010. Additionally, she holds an MBA from the University of Colorado Denver in 2021 and a Graduate Certificate in the Business of Medicine from Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business in 2010. Board-certified in Internal Medicine since 2008, Dr. Tad-y practices as a hospitalist at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, where she also acts as Associate Chief Medical Officer for Patient Flow, overseeing clinical operations and patient flow initiatives across the enterprise. She directs the Administrative Scholars Program, a two-year fellowship in Administrative Hospital Medicine offered through the Division of Hospital Medicine, and serves as faculty in the Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety and Efficiency. Dr. Tad-y teaches in the Quality and Safety Educators Academy, authored and co-directs the quality improvement curriculum and annual QI pre-course for the American College of Physicians, and holds the position of Assistant Editor for the Joint Commission Journal of Quality and Patient Safety.

Dr. Tad-y's clinical interests encompass patient-centered care, patient flow, quality improvement, and patient safety. Her contributions include prior roles as Vice President of Clinical Affairs for the Colorado Hospital Association and director on the board of Contexture, Colorado’s state health information exchange. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Society of Hospital Medicine. Key publications feature 'Leveraging a Redesigned Morbidity and Mortality Conference That Incorporates the Clinical and Educational Missions of Improving Quality and Patient Safety' (Academic Medicine, 2016), 'The evolution of morbidity and mortality conferences' (BMJ Quality & Safety, 2016), 'Maximizing impact of faculty development through purposeful design: Lessons from a quality and safety education academy' (Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2023), and 'Physician Executives Guide a Successful COVID-19 Response in Colorado' (NEJM Catalyst, 2020). These works reflect her impact on advancing quality improvement education and systems-based practices in hospital medicine.