Dr. Adol Esquivel completed his medical training (2002) and his medical national social service (2003) as a research fellow at the Tecnologico de Monterrey School of Medicine. He obtained a Master of Science (2005) with a focus in Telemedicine, and his doctoral degree (2008) in biomedical informatics from the University of Texas Health Science Center, School of Biomedical Informatics in Houston, TX. Dr. Esquivel also graduated from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Clinical Safety & Effectiveness Education Program in 2007. Dr. Esquivel is an adjunct faculty at The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics.  His research, peer reviewed publications and book chapters have focused on patient safety, understanding, and improving electronic communication between primary care providers and specialists using electronic health records, and the use of digital imagery for diabetic retinopathy screening using telemedicine. Dr. Esquivel joined CommonSpirit – St. Luke’s Health as the Director of Clinical Effectiveness and Performance Measurement in 2010, overseeing the management, integration, and coordination of the Health System’s clinical performance measurement systems. In 2018, Dr. Esquivel was named Director for Clinical Analytics for the St. Luke’s Health Texas Division where he oversees 15 hospitals’ quality reporting. He ensures the use of accurate analytic methodologies to develop hospital and safety trending systems to report internal/external clinical quality performance measures. He facilitates the transition from mostly paper-based and manually collected performance indicators to automated and electronic based measures through the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records and business intelligence tools. Under Dr. Esquivel’s leadership, the St. Luke’s Health

Texas Division has secured more than $18 million dollars in Federal incentives and avoided close to $100 million dollars in penalties by ensuring timely adoption of electronic health records.