Biography - M. Michael Shabot, MD, FACS, FCCM, FACMI

M. Michael Shabot, MD, FACS, FCCM, FACMI
Senior Vice President, System Chief Medical Officer
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System

M. Michael Shabot, M.D. is Vice President and Chief Quality Officer for the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System of Houston, Texas.  He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston and Professor of Surgery at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.  He was previously Medical Director of Enterprise Information Services, Director of Surgical Intensive Care and Associate Director of Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.  He is a recent past Chief of Staff at Cedars-Sinai.  He is Board certified in General Surgery and Surgery Critical Care and specializes in general surgery, trauma surgery and critical care.  Dr. Shabot is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Critical Care Medicine and the American College of Medical Informatics.  During his surgical residency, Dr. Shabot implemented a first generation clinical information system for the real time management of critically ill patients.  Since then he has overseen the development of numerous innovations in patient care including ambulatory systems.  He has published over 300 papers, chapters, books and abstracts on critical care, trauma, physiologic monitoring and the use of computerized information systems for decision support, quality management and clinical research.  A specialist in medical computer technology, Dr. Shabot conducts research on how systems can improve patient care, quality and safety.  With Cedars-Sinai Medical Center he obtained a patent on a wireless clinical alerting system in 1999.