Dr. Daniel Salinas serves as Chief Medical Officer and Chief Quality Officer for the Emory Healthcare Network and the Emory Healthcare Population Health Collaborative and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine.

Dr. Salinas is a senior healthcare executive with more than two decades of experience leading quality, clinical, and population health transformation across large, complex health systems. His work focuses on advancing value-based care through clinically integrated networks, improving patient outcomes, and aligning physicians and health systems around performance, accountability, and total cost of care. 

He has led enterprise-wide quality and safety initiatives grounded in high-reliability principles, achieving measurable improvements in patient outcomes and successfully guiding multiple Joint Commission reviews. Dr. Salinas has also played a key role in developing and scaling clinically integrated networks, including building a self-sustaining CIN with demonstrated success in both quality performance and payer contracting. 

In addition, he has driven strategic initiatives spanning primary care transformation, behavioral health, and population health management, as well as the development of multi-hospital partnerships and statewide clinical collaborations. 

Dr. Salinas earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. He is board-certified in pediatrics and has completed advanced executive leadership training at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.