John Peabody, MD, PhD, FACP, is an international healthcare leader in measurement, health policy, health systems and quality of clinical care; a professor at UCSF and UCLA; and the founder and president of QURE Healthcare. An actively funded National Institutes of Health researcher, Peabody works with clinical leaders, academic medical centers and multidisciplinary teams to help healthcare organizations better align their clinical staff. For almost 2 decades, he has examined how health systems affect, and potentially improve, care quality, and patient outcomes.