Komal Bajaj

Chief Quality Officer

Dr. Komal Bajaj is an agency-building healthcare leader, catalyzing transformation across all facets of healthcare delivery. Dr. Bajaj’s work sits at the nexus of quality and technology. She serves as chief quality officer of NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi/North Central Bronx and Medical Director for Sustainability for NYC Health + Hospitals. Dr. Bajaj is an advisor to a variety of public and private entities including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality – she was appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the National Advisory Council in 2022. Dr. Bajaj is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and was named as one of Becker’s Hospital Review Top Patient Safety Experts in 2024. She is an inaugural National Academy of Medicine Diagnostic Excellence Scholar. Dr. Bajaj’s work is regularly featured in media outlets such as New York Times, NPR, Modern Healthcare, Becker’s Hospital Review as well as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA Health Forum, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. She is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.