Efrain Solis has 20 years in healthcare working in roles at UCLA in Pathology & Immunogenetics, Johns Hopkins Hospital in Surgery, Johns Hopkins Singapore in Medical Oncology, Cedars-Sinai as a Lead Performance Improvement Facilitator, Memorial Hermann, Banner MD Anderson, and UT Southwestern. Efrain has managed the execution of the Malcolm Baldrige Journey to Excellence and continues to be an ambassador to the Baldrige program, as well as many other initiatives related to quality, safety, and performance excellence, for organizations around the world. In 2015, he was selected as a Baldrige Examiner, and in 2016 helped his former campus achieve the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the first hospital in Houston to achieve this. Efrain holds Bachelor’s & Master’s degrees from the University of Baltimore, where he also serves as an Adjunct professor in the College of Public Affairs. As of the fall 2021 Efrain will serve as an Associate Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University in the Executive MBA program. In 2020, he joined UT Southwestern Medical Center in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery as the Clinical Department Administrator. His personal vision statement is to positively affect the lives of a billion people and seeks to achieve this vision by assigning purpose to everything he does, putting others needs ahead of his own, and never pausing for a moment to help others reach their potential.