Mount Sinai (US)

Tao Xu, MD is a Board-Certified Internal Medicine physician practicing at the Mount Sinai Hospital. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Xu earned her medical degree at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and completed her Internship and Residency at the New York University Langone Medical Center. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine, and faculty in the Division of Hospital Medicine, a part of the Department of Medicine for the Mount Sinai Health System. From 2013 to 2018, Dr. Xu served as the Medical Director of the Mount Sinai Hospital 9-West inpatient medicine unit. She was the leader of multiple unit-wide as well as departmental Quality and Patient Safety initiatives, including Hand Hygiene, Hospital Acquired Infections, Throughput Metrics, Transitions of Care, and Patient Experience. Her close collaboration with multidisciplinary Quality and Patient Safety teams led to her receiving the Department of Nursing 31st Annual Physician of the Year award in 2018. From 2013 to 2019, Dr. Xu served as faculty mentor for residents in the Mount Sinai Internal Medicine Residency Program, and has been a member of the annual Internal Medicine Residency recruitment committee since 2013. She is the Co-founder and Director of the Division of Hospital Medicine Onboarding Program. Dr. Xu is a senior faculty who is a member of the Division of Hospital Medicine core leadership group.

Since 2018, Dr. Xu has served as the Medical Director of Mount Sinai International, overseeing Quality and Patient Safety training, education, program development, and Joint Commission International accreditation preparation for its global partners. In her leadership role as the Medical Director, Dr. Xu has assisted two hospitals in China to establish improvement processes in multiple aspects of their quality and safety programs. This includes selecting, monitoring, and designing improvement plans for hospital-wide quality metrics, developing a quality and safety program governance structure for the partner hospitals, and engaging hospital leadership, management, and frontline staff on the recognition of culture of safety. Dr. Xu has used the process of preparing for the Joint Commission International survey to coach hospitals in China, India, Guyana, Paraguay, and Finland in quality and safety improvement, working with each culturally-unique healthcare organizations to identify gaps, and bridge them with tailored best practice from the Mount Sinai Health System.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an integrated healthcare system providing exceptional medical care to our local and global communities. Encompassing the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, eight hospital campuses in the New York metropolitan area, and a large regional ambulatory footprint, Mount Sinai is internationally acclaimed for its excellence in research, patient care, and education across various specialties. The Health System includes over 7,400 physicians, general practitioners and specialists, featuring a robust and continually expanding network of multispecialty services, including 198 ambulatory practice locations throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, and Long Island.

Mount Sinai International (MSI) is an organization within Mount Sinai Health System focused on developing international healthcare partnerships. Over the years, MSI has established diverse short-term and strategic long-term collaborations in Europe, Asia, South America, and the Caribbean with partnership organizations ranging from national governments to private institutions. Central to the engagement with the partner hospitals, Mount Sinai Health System experts assist with hospital operations, clinical programs, department development, and attaining international-standard quality and safety management and protocols. Mount Sinai International is committed to helping our global partners achieve the highest international standards of quality, safety, and equity in patient care, ultimately leading to healthcare delivery transformation.