Dr. Moffatt-Bruce joins the Royal College from The Ohio State University (OSU) Wexner Medical Center University Hospital — a flagship patient care facility with 700 beds and 70,000 annual admissions, providing quaternary clinical care — where she has served as executive director for the past two years. Prior to that, she was the OSU Wexner Medical Center’s first chief quality and patient safety officer. In that role, she led data analysis, transparent reporting of outcomes and process improvement for a seven-hospital academic medical centre. She and her team were celebrated for their success in reducing patient safety events and hospital re-admissions.

A funded research scientist, Dr. Moffatt-Bruce is also a practicing thoracic surgeon who is listed among the top doctors in Columbus and Central Ohio. She is a professor of surgery and of biomedical informatics at OSU, and has developed curriculum for residents and faculty around quality and professionalism. She holds leadership positions in numerous national and international associations and is a member of the Royal College’s Fellowship Affairs Committee.

Dr. Moffatt-Bruce completed medical school and residency in General Surgery at Dalhousie University. She undertook a PhD in Transplant Immunology at the University of Cambridge, England, and completed her Cardiothoracic Surgery fellowship at Stanford University, California. She also trained at Intermountain Healthcare, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Moffatt-Bruce has a Six Sigma Black Belt certification. She earned her Masters of Business Operational Excellence and her Executive Masters of Business Administration at the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University.