Eskandar Yazaji, MD

Provider is directly employed by MedStar Health

Dr. Eskandar (Alex) Yazaji, MD, is the Vice President for Medical Affairs and the Chief Medical Officer at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital & MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital. Before his current role he served as the president of the medical staff at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital. He also served as the Chief Quality and Safety Officer and the vice chair of medicine for MedStar Union Memorial and MedStar Good Samaritan hospitals. He serves on the board of directors for both hospitals. He holds a faculty appointment at Georgetown University as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Yazaji also serves as a faculty in the executive master’s in quality, safety, and leadership at Georgetown University. Dr. Yazaji received his medical degree from Damascus University and went on to residency training in Internal Medicine at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital followed by a fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center. In 2004, he established and directed the hospitalist program at Bayhealth in Delaware until returning to Baltimore to join MedStar Union Memorial in 2008. Dr. Yazaji participated in the MedStar/ Wharton physician leadership development program in 2017. Dr. Yazaji won multiple teaching awards by the house staff. His interests include patient safety & quality and practicing high quality medicine. He worked on multiple quality and safety initiatives at the local level such as reducing hospital acquired conditions, capacity management and reducing readmission and length of stay. He also led and participated in many initiatives at the MedStar Health system level such as Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI), alcohol withdrawal management, lab utilization, respiratory monitoring, sepsis, telemetry utilization, and improving mortality.