Ronald E. Iverson, Jr., MD, MPH

Ronald E Iverson, Jr, MD, MPH is a general OBGYN at the Boston Medical Center. He graduated from Stanford University in 1987 with a BA, then from Tufts University Medical School in 1992 with an MD/MPH. He completed an OBGYN residency at the Tufts New England Medical Center in 1996.
Dr. Iverson worked at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1996-2006. During that time he served as director of the OBGYN unit at East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC). Very important to this work was the relationship between the hospital and health center and patient care transitions.
He began working at Boston Medical Center in 2006. In his role as the medical director of Labor and Delivery from 2009-2019, he focused on teamwork and development of safety guidelines and algorithms for the team of nurses, family medicine providers, midwives, pediatricians and anesthesiologists. He is the director of quality and safety as well and director of credentialing and privileging for the department of OBGYN. He is now the vice chair of Obstetrics. He is a Boston University Assistant Professor in the department of OBGYN.
At the state level, Dr. Iverson was part of the board, and then led the Boston Obstetrics Society, where he worked to improve education and collaboration between providers and hospitals in the Commonwealth. At the state level, he is deeply involved in the development and planning of the Massachusetts Perinatal Neonatal Quality Improvement Network (PNQIN), a multidisciplinary group focused on decreasing maternal morbidity and mortality and eliminating inequities in care and outcomes through collaborative QI implementation. This work extends to his service on the Executive Committee of the National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaborative, run by the CDC.
Dr. Iverson began his journey in QI as a provider leading hospital change, then trained in 2015 at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement as an Improvement Advisor. He has been involved in hospital level QI in his department, implementing obstetric care bundles and participating in hospital wide projects and trainings. He has experience in the use of simulations to build and reinforce quality efforts. He has led many QI trainings at the state level and assisted in improvement implementations at numerous Massachusetts hospitals. He also participates in quality improvement at the national level, as part of the American College of OBGYN Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health team. In particular, he has participated in the development of the “Opioid Use During Pregnancy” care bundle. His interest and presentations focus in maternal morbidity and mortality, particularly on racial equity as it relates to care and outcomes.