Cerner Corporation announced Nasim Afsar, MD, MBA, MHM, as the company?s first Chief Health Officer, effective January 2022. In this new role, Dr. Afsar will lead Cerner?s more than 1,000 healthcare professionals who provide insight and guidance to product development and improving the lives of patients and caregivers. She will also lead the quality and patient safety, regulatory, health policy, government affairs and continuous improvement organizations. Dr. Afsar is an experienced physician and healthcare executive with more than a decade of leadership responsibilities in large complex healthcare delivery systems, including UCLA Health and UCI Health. Previously, she has served as Chief Operating Officer, Chief Quality Officer and Associate Chief Medical Officer, delivering large scale and sustainable outcomes in quality, population health management, operations, finance, contracting, business development and strategy. She is the past president of Society of Hospital Medicine and has served on the Board of Directors for eight years. Dr. Afsar received her MD from UC Davis, School of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine residency at UCLA Health. She received her MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.