BIO

Pamela Roberts, PhD, MSHA, OTR/L, SCFES, FAOTA, CPHQ, FNAP, FACRM is the Executive Director in the Office of the Chief Medical Officer and Professor and Executive Director of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai. She is also Sr Director of Quality, Outcomes and Research at California Rehabilitation Institute. Dr. Roberts works in interprofessional roles involving operations, quality, safety, education, and research. In these roles, she systematically impacts patient care throughout the continuum. She is the co‐director of the Division of Informatics in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and associate director of the Clinical Informatics Fellowship program. In these endeavors, she seeks to advance the development and use of information technology for discovery, education, decision‐making, research, healthcare delivery and individual academic growth, as well as to catalyze inquiry and discovery across the Cedars‐Sinai enterprise.

She also teaches at the University of Southern California and guest lectures at other universities. She is involved in the National Quality Forum (NQF) in facilitating development of quality measures including the Cost Efficiency committee and Membership Applications Partnership-Long Term Care/Post-Acute Care. Other involvement includes American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine as President, Past Chair of the Program Committee and Past‐Chair of the Stroke Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group, American Occupational Therapy Association, American Council of Occupational Therapy Education ACOTE past chair, past chair of the California Hospital Association Center for Medical Rehabilitation Services, and past member of the California Hospital Association Board of Trustees and Post‐ Acute Care board. She is a surveyor for the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).

Dr. Roberts has served as principal and co‐investigator on a variety of interprofessional research projects and has provided a variety of workshops and consultations on rehabilitation, quality and safety management, informatics and health services research topics regionally, nationally, and internationally. Further, her published research focuses on utilization of large data to influence treatment models, quality, and outcomes.