Dr. Arnold Milstein is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford and directs the University's Clinical Excellence Research Center. The Center designs and demonstrates in diverse locations scalable innovations in healthcare delivery that provide more with less.

Before joining Stanford's faculty, he created a national healthcare performance improvement firm, globalized the firm after its acquisition, co-founded three nationally influential public benefit initiatives, served as a Congressional MedPAC Commissioner, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM, formerly IOM).