Bruce Lee Hall
Professor of Surgery, School of Medicine; Professor of Health Care Management, Olin Business School
Area of Expertise:
Health Economics
Academic/Professional Activities:
- Member, ACS Surgical Outcomes Club
- Director of Department, American College of Surgeons (ACS)
- Senior Fellow, Center for Health Policy
- National Co-Chair, Evaluation and Measurement Committee for the ACS-NSQIP
- Director of Department, National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP)
- Committee Member, Patient Safety and Quality Committee for the ACS
- Associate Chief of Surgery, St. Louis VA Medical Center
- Member, American Association of Endocrine Surgeons
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Bruce L. Hall, MD, PhD, MBA, FACS
Dr. Bruce Hall is Vice President and System Chief Medical Officer for BJC HealthCare and leads the Clinical Advisory Group for the BJC Center for Clinical Excellence. Dr. Hall oversees clinical advisory services focusing on identifying high impact clinical quality, coordination, integration, and resource management issues, and efforts to address these topics relevant to priority populations.
Dr. Hall is a professor of surgery in the Washington University School of Medicine and Professor of Healthcare Management for the Olin Business School. At Olin, for 13 years he taught healthcare economics and management courses, and now continues to guest lecture on topics including healthcare economics, insurance theory, health policy, and healthcare management.
Bruce earned his B.A. degree in biochemical sciences, Magna cum Laude, from Princeton University in 1984; his Ph.D. in immunology from Duke University in 1991 as a member of the National Institutes of Health Medical Scientist Training Program; his medical degree from Duke University in 1992; and his M.B.A. with honors from Harvard University's full-time program in 2000. He trained in general surgery in the Harvard program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital 1992-1997 and remained on Harvard Medical School’s surgical faculty 1997-2000.
Dr. Hall joined Washington University School of Medicine, Olin Business School, and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in 2000. Since then, he has been a member of the Trauma and Acute Care Division, followed by the Division of Endocrine and Oncologic Surgery, and the St. Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He has led Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s participation as a founding member of the American College of Surgeons’ National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) since 2001, and has been a director in that program for the ACS ever since. He is the surgical champion for that program at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and has coordinated implementation of that program in other BJC hospitals as part of surgical and procedural preventable harms efforts. Dr. Hall has been active in the Department of Surgery leadership promoting quality measurement and improvement and has assisted with improvement efforts at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He has served at different times as an American College of Surgeons liaison to the National Quality Forum, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Joint Commission. In 2020, he was recognized by Becker’s Healthcare as one of “50 patient safety experts to know in 2020”, and in 2022 was recognized again by Becker’s as one of “26 patient safety experts to know”. He has written and lectured extensively on the challenges of performance measurement and quality improvement, as well as related policy issues.
Bruce Lee Hall's Home Page
Email: hallb@wustl.edu
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