Scott Young

Senior Medical Director, Clinical Quality 
The Permanente Federation

Scott Young, MD, serves as senior medical director for Clinical Quality in The Permanente Federation and executive director of Kaiser Permanente’s Care Management Institute. His work includes commissioning the discovery, evaluation and spread of programs and evidence-based practices focused on care delivery, education, and member experience. 

Dr. Young is former director for Health IT at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Prior to joining that agency, he served as a senior clinical advisor at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Dr. Young’s policy experience also includes service as a Robert Wood Johnson health policy fellow in the office of U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico. 

He is former executive vice president of the Utah HealthCare Institute, a not-for-profit organization providing clinical care, outreach programs, medical education, research, informatics, and health policy services. Dr. Young is a founding member of Intermountain Health Care’s Utah Valley Family Practice Residency. 

Dr. Young received his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1987 and completed his training at the Fairfax Family Practice Residency. He is board certified in family medicine and a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He is a former Navy flight surgeon.