Gene Beyt, MD, MS

Gene Beyt is an experienced senior physician executive, university faculty, consultant, author, and visual artist. He has served as a program director in internal medicine, a chief medical and a chief quality officer, a professor of medicine, a practicing physician, and a visiting scholar at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. There he co-edited the book Wisdom Leadership in Academic Health Science Centers: Leading Positive Change. Beyt’s journey in redesigning healthcare began with the Quality Management Network, serving as conference co-chair for two of the IHI's National Forums. As faculty in healthcare effectiveness for the Louisiana public hospitals and clinics, he coordinated the organizational learning and leadership development initiatives, helping design recognized statewide population health and performance improvement programs, including an assessment of psychological capital in healthcare professionals following the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

As a visual artist, Beyt’s photographs have been paired with poetry in the tradition of physician-author Walker Percy and published in the book The Quotidian. Beyt is a student of art-based discovery and healing after experiences of trauma, putting human needs and wellbeing at the center of all that we do. His work has appeared in national publications and in gallery collections.