Distinguished Quality Professional Award

The Distinguished Quality Professional Award, awarded by the Missouri Association for Healthcare Quality, recognizes an individual in the area of health care quality improvement who has made a significant contribution to his or her own organization and participated in state and national quality improvement organizations and activities. This individual is expected to have made a significant contribution to the knowledge and understanding of health care quality improvement and the field of health care quality.

Leslie W. Hall, M.D., director of the Office of Clinical Effectiveness at University of Missouri Health Care in Columbia, Mo., was honored with the 2007 Distinguished Quality Professional Award.

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