Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Scotland

Jason is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

From January 2015 to May 2024 Jason was The National Clinical Director for the Scottish Government. He worked for Government from 2007 as the National Clinical Lead for safety and subsequently, for Quality.

The National Clinical Director is responsible for quality in the health and social care system, including patient safety and person-centred care, NHS planning, and implementing quality improvement methods across the government and the broader public sector.

He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

He was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2022, a rare accolade for a non US citizen.

He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee and a Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

He was a 2005-06 Quality Improvement Fellow at IHI.

Jason is a non-executive Board member of the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland, a Board member of The Nazareth Trust which runs an acute hospital providing care in Northern Israel and the West Bank and a trustee of the Indian Rural Evangelical Fellowship (UK) which runs a children’s’ home and schools in southeast India.

He qualified as a dentist in 1991 and was a clinical academic and Consultant Oral Surgeon in Glasgow. He has a doctorate from the University of Glasgow, a Masters in Public Health from Harvard and is a fellow of the three UK surgical Royal Colleges.

He is an internationally recognised speaker and adviser on health and care improvement, public health and has advised countries all over the world.