James E. (Jim) Bailey, MD, MPH, FACP is Robert S. Pearce Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine, Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Director for the Center for Health Systems Improvement, and Executive Director for the Tennessee Population Health Consortium at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. He serves as the principal investigator (PI) for the Tennessee Heart Health Network (TN-HHN), a statewide healthcare extension cooperative funded through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) EvidenceNOW: Building State Capacity Program and the aligned Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) Innovative Cardiovascular Disease Program to support and strengthen primary care. He has served as PI for over 10 major grants and health systems improvement research initiatives and has over 100 journal articles, book chapters, and publications. His novel, The End of Healing: A Journey Through the Underworld of American Medicine, received a Benjamin Franklin Book Award for popular fiction. You can follow him on Twitter at @JimBaileyMD and LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbaileymd/