Former Senior Vice President for Quality and Maintenance of Certification at The American Board of Pediatrics; Former Senior Vice President for Quality and Maintenance of Certification at The American Board of Pediatrics, USA

As a practicing paediatrician in a rural community, Dr. Miles helped lead the application of quality improvement in a population-based community effort. He was recruited to the senior leadership team at the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) where he helped lead the development of a transformative new model of physician professional development based on core competencies. Dr Miles’ primary focus is on helping physicians assess and improve quality of care using improvement science. Through the ABP, Dr. Miles and his colleagues developed a model for a national learning improvement network that led to the creation of ImproveCareNow (ICN), a nationwide improvement effort in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). ICN is co-led by patients and now involves the majority of children with IBD in the US and has resulted in significant improvement in outcomes of care. National learning networks have subsequently been created in congenital heart disease, patient safety, and several other areas and the learning network model is transforming paediatric subspecialty care in the US.