Nicholas Testa, MD, serves as Chief Clinical Officer at Sentact, where he leads initiatives to advance clinical quality and patient safety while ensuring the company’s platform aligns with real-world workflows. As a member of the executive team, Dr. Testa plays a key role in shaping organizational strategy and elevating the voice of clinical leaders.
Previously, Dr. Testa held senior clinical leadership roles at CommonSpirit Health, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health systems, most recently serving as Regional Chief Medical Officer for California. Previous roles also include Chief Physician Executive at Dignity Health, Chief Medical Officer at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, and Associate Medical Director at LAC+USC Medical Center.
Dr. Testa is an Adjunct Voluntary Professor at the University of Southern California, teaching patient safety, quality, process improvement, and physician leadership. He completed his emergency medicine residency at LAC+USC Medical Center and internship at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center.
To truly drive safety at scale, healthcare organizations will have to look beyond just adverse events and better leverage insights from one of the most valuable, but often underutilized, sources of safety data: near misses.