Dr. Shabot is a Founding Partner of Relia Healthcare Advisors, which provides services in the areas of high reliability safety and quality, executive leadership development, organizational culture assessment, medical staff governance and implementation of the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Framework. Dr. Shabot formerly served as Executive Vice President and System Chief Clinical Officer of the Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston, Texas, which includes 17 hospitals, 20 ambulatory surgical centers and 300 other ambulatory sites. Memorial Hermann has private, employed and academic medical groups totaling 6,500 physicians and an Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Under Dr. Shabot’s leadership, Memorial Hermann embarked on a journey to high reliability safety. In 2013 Memorial Hermann received the John M. Eisenberg Award for Patient Safety and Quality, presented by the Joint Commission and National Quality Forum. In 2009 Memorial Hermann received both the National Quality Healthcare Award from the National Quality Forum and the National Patient Safety Leadership Award from the VHA Foundation and National Business Group on Health. In 2016 Memorial Hermann’s Sugar Land Hospital received the Baldrige National Quality Award, and in 2017 and 2018 respectively, the Memorial Hermann’s Katy Hospital and Memorial City Medical Center received the Texas Award for Performance Excellence (TAPE), based on Baldrige Award criteria. In 2019 Memorial Hermann received the International Hospital Federation’s Dr Kwang Tae Kim Grand Award, presented to Dr. Shabot at the IHF Congress in Muskat, Oman.

Dr. Shabot also served as chairman of Memorial Hermann’s ACO Board and in 2013, 2014 and 2015, Memorial Hermann’s ACO generated the highest annual savings the CMS Medicare Shared Savings Program had ever recorded, totaling $200 million.

Dr. Shabot serves as Adjunct Professor at the UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics and at the University of Alabama School of Health Professions. He also serves on the Board Quality Committee of the Mercy System, St. Louis, Missouri. Prior to joining Memorial Hermann, Dr. Shabot served as Chief of Staff, Associate Director of Surgery, Director of Surgical Intensive Care and Medical Director of Information Services at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California. He is co-author of the book Integrating Quality and Strategy in Health Care Organizations, published in August 2012, and serves on the editorial boards of several professional journals.

Dr. Shabot received his medical degree from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He is board certified in general surgery and surgery critical care. Dr. Shabot is married to Linda Ann Shabot and they have three children in Texas and California.

Bio updated February 2023