Staff Biography

Marjie Grazi Harbrecht, MD

Chief Executive Officer  

Marjie Grazi Harbrecht, MD, is a board-certified family physician and chief executive officer of HealthTeamWorks (formerly the Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative [CCGC]), which she has led since 1999. Initially focusing on developing and gaining consensus from multiple stakeholders on evidence-based guidelines, the organization has evolved to implementing and evaluating evidence-based care through redesign and culture change at the practice, community and healthcare system levels. Under Dr. Harbrecht’s leadership, HealthTeamWorks serves as the lead agency for two major national initiatives: Improving Performance in Practice (IPIP) and the Colorado Multi-Payer, Multi-State Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Pilot. In addition, it's a partner in the Colorado Regional Extension Center to help practices achieve “meaningful use” of electronic records. 

Dr. Harbrecht serves on multiple boards and committees. At the local level, she is a director of the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) and the Center for Improving Value in Healthcare (CIVHC), working on the All-Payer Claims Database Committee. At the national level, Dr. Harbrecht's affiliations include the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) Payment Reform Taskforce and the NCQA PPC-PCMH Advisory Committee, which helped develop the 2011 PCMH standards.

In 2007, Dr. Harbrecht received an award from the Colorado Patient Safety Coalition for her work and serves on its task force to help develop a patient safety agenda for the state. She lectures nationally about health system change, quality improvement and patient safety and serves as an assistant clinical professor in family medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.