Professional Affiliation

M.D., Director of Outcomes Research, Mercy Health

Expert Bio

Dr. Drozda is a cardiologist and Director of Outcomes Research at Mercy Health—a 4 state regional health system headquartered in St. Louis.  He is a member of the American College of Cardiology’s Board of Trustees, is a past chair of the American College of Cardiology’s Clinical Quality Committee, and is the ACC representative to the National Quality Forum where he chairs the Health Professionals Council.  He is an emeritus member of the ACC’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry Management Board and serves on the NCDR’s Data Governance Committee.  He has been a methodologist for the American Medical Association-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI) for over 14 years, chairs the PCPI Measures Advisory Committee, and serves on the interim board of the new PCPI Foundation.  Dr. Drozda was in private practice for over 18 years and has 24 years of experience in managed care including stints as Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of Health Plan Operations at Centene—a publicly traded Medicaid managed company.  From 1996 to 1999 he served as Vice President of Medical Management for SSM Health Care-St. Louis participating in that system’s journey to becoming the first healthcare organization to receive the Malcolm Baldrige award. 
He has published and presented in multiple venues on the development and implementation of new systems for performing postmarket medical device surveillance and research.