Dale W. Bratzler, DO, MPH
Dean, Hudson College of Public Health, Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor Professor, Colleges of Medicine and Public Health, The Edward E. and Helen T. Bartlett Foundation Chair in Public Health, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
Dale W. Bratzler, DO, MPH, is the Dean of the Hudson College of Public Health and a Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Administration and Policy. He is a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine in the College of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma (OU) Health Sciences.
Dr. Bratzler has a long history of working on healthcare performance measurement and reporting. He worked closely with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on the development of national quality reporting programs for hospitals, nursing homes and physician practices starting in the mid-90s. For more than 25 years, Dr. Bratzler has participated in research on prevention of surgical infections and on adult vaccination. He was appointed to the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee in 2010 and subsequently spent a year as a Senior Policy Advisor for the CDC. He has given more than 600 lectures nationally on health care quality topics with a particular emphasis on prevention of surgical site infections and adult vaccination and has published more than 100 manuscripts in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Journals of the American Medical Association, Health Affairs and others. According to Google Scholar, he has more than 23,000 citations of his publications by other authors and an H-index of 50.
Board certified in internal medicine, he is a Master Fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Internists, and a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.