Scott Masten, PhD 
Vice President, Measurement Science & Performance Analytics 
Hospital Quality Institute (HQI)  
Dr. Masten at HQI improves health care data quality and reduces patient injury, leveraging over 20 years of applied research and data experience. He holds a doctorate in injury epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in experimental psychology from California State University, Sacramento. Scott guides HQI's analytics and data team in developing, enhancing, and maintaining the Hospital Quality Improvement Platform and CHPSOData systems. These systems collect, manage, and standardize encounter and safety event report data from hospitals, aiding in progress tracking and improvement identification toward the goal of zero harm. He’s also a professor, teaching undergraduate research methods and graduate level advanced applied statistics courses for over 20 years.