Dr. Dale Bratzler

In addition to his role as Chief COVID Officer, Dr. Dale Bratzler is a professor and chair of the Department of Health Administration and Policy in the Hudson College of Public Health at OU. He has devoted nearly 25 years toward researching infection prevention and treatment, in addition to advising health care leaders on public health topics. Dr. Bratzler also is a faculty member in the Department of Internal Medicine in the OU College of Medicine and serves as enterprise chief quality officer for the three-hospital health system and faculty practice at OU Medicine.

He has served two terms as president of the American Health Quality Association and is a past member of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality National Advisory Council and the CDC Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. He has given more than 600 lectures nationally on health care quality topics. Dr. Bratzler earned his medical degree from the Kansas City University College of Medicine and Biosciences and his Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Oklahoma. Board certified in internal medicine, he is a Master Fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Internists, and a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.