Vice President, Clinical & Social Research and Development

Contact Information:

Email:  lvmm@nmqf.org

Dr. Vikki Mata-McMurry trained and graduated as a general practitioner from the Universidad de Cuenca in Ecuador. While in Ecuador she served as Medical Director of a Public Health Post for the Ministry of Health, overseeing the health care of 400 families in an underserved, rural community of Sageo.

In 2011, after her appointment with the Ministry of Health she transitioned into a research fellowship position with the International Trauma System Development Program (ITSDP), at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. As research fellow and later research coordinator for ITSDP, she helped develop and implement an international trauma registry in different Latin American countries such as Colombia, Panama, and Bolivia. The trauma registry project aimed to assess the true burden of injury, support quality improvement efforts with aims of improving the overall quality of care in Low-and-Middle-Income-Countries.

In 2019, she relocated to Colorado and served as Program Manager and Research Associate for the C3 Global Trauma Network at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. At C3 she managed and oversaw research activities for a large Department of Defense funded prospective multicenter study on the Epidemiology and Outcomes of Combat-Relevant Prolonged Trauma Care in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.

As of January 2022, Vikki has joined NMQF as Vice-President of Clinical and Social Research and Development. She will be responsible for the oversight and implementation of research projects and programs focused on reducing patient risk and identifying optimal care to reduce health disparities and bring about health equity.