Dr. Christopher Thomas is the Medical Director of System Quality for Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, Chief Quality Officer for Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, and an Assistant Professor of clinical medicine at Loussiana State University Health Science Center in Baton Rouge, Loussiana. His career interests surround sustained reductions in unnecessary clinical variability, improving the time to translation of evidence-based research into clinical application, and the movement of quality metrics into alignment with patient-centered clinical themes. He currently participates in both NIH-funded and industry-sponsored clinical trials. His quality and research projects center on improved diagnostic accuracy of sepsis to facilitate best practice, evaluation of analgosedation and the ABCDEF bundle in the critically ill, reducing the harms of hospital mortality, and integration of health equity metrics into quality reporting.