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Cincinnati Children’s names Eric Williams, MD, as chief quality officer and VP of Anderson Center

Monday, February 03, 2025

 Cincinnati Children’s has named Eric Williams, MD, as chief quality officer.

Cincinnati Children’s has named Eric Williams, MD, as the chief quality officer and vice president of the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence.

The role previously was shared between Steve Muething, MD, who continues his tenure with Cincinnati Children’s in Advisory Services, and Peter Margolis, MD, who continues as a faculty member in the research division of the center. Williams will report to Evaline Alessandrini, MD, chief operating officer of Cincinnati Children’s.

“Dr. Williams’ experience and passion for transformational leadership in healthcare quality and outcomes will serve us well in the next chapter of our journey to be the leader in improving child health,” Alessandrini said. “His ability to use improvement science to foster collaboration resulting in integrating research with practical applications makes him a fantastic choice to lead our ongoing quality journey.”

Williams will oversee all functions of the Anderson Center, which was founded in 2010 and named in honor of James Anderson, a former president and CEO of Cincinnati Children’s. Since its inception, the center has provided a central place to transparently share ideas, knowledge and data among healthcare systems to accelerate the reach and pace of improvement for all.

In his new role, Williams will oversee a multidisciplinary team of more than 280 employees focused on systemwide quality strategy development and execution, improvement science education, action-oriented health services, implementation and operations research as well as advancing learning health networks.

Williams joined Cincinnati Children’s in 2023 as chief patient outcomes officer and associate chief quality officer within the Anderson Center. He also is a professor in the Division of Critical Care within the University of Cincinnati’s Department of Pediatrics, which consists entirely of staff members from Cincinnati Children’s. Before that, he spent nearly two decades in escalating clinical, quality and informatics-related leadership roles at Texas Children’s Hospital, culminating in service as the system chief quality officer.

Board certified in pediatrics and pediatric critical care medicine, Williams earned a medical degree from Duke University, completed a residency at Baylor College of Medicine, and pursued a clinical fellowship at Duke University. He received a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Boston University, a master’s in biomedical engineering from Duke University and a master’s in medical management from Carnegie Mellon University. He has 30 peer-reviewed publications and 55 abstracts under his name. In 2020, he was recognized with the Presidential Citation for outstanding contributions to the Society of Critical Care Medicine.