 |
|
|
 |
|
Linda Aiken, PhD, RN
 Dr.
Aiken is director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, The
Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing, Professor of Sociology, and
senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the
University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Aiken won the 2005 AcademyHealth Distinguished
Investigator Award and the 2003 Individual Earnest A. Codman Award from the
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) for her
leadership utilizing performance measures to demonstrate relationships between
nursing care and patient outcomes. She and her co-authors were honored in 2003
with the Health Services Research Article of the Year Award by AcademyHealth
for their paper in the of the American Medical Association documenting
the effect of nurse staffing on surgical mortality. Dr. Aiken leads the
International Hospital Outcomes Consortium studying the impact of nursing on
patient outcomes in eight countries.
Dr. Aiken is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of
Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of
Social Insurance, and is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science. Dr. Aiken is a fellow and former president of the
American Academy of Nursing and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of
Nursing of the United Kingdom. Prior to coming to the University of
Pennsylvania in 1988, she was vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation. Dr. Aiken received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in nursing
from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and her PhD in sociology and
demography from the University of Texas at Austin. She was a postdoctoral
research fellow in medical sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. |
|
Jennifer Daley, MD
In October 2007, Dr. Jennifer Daley joined Partners HealthCare System in Boston as the Chief Medical Officer of Partners Community Healthcare Inc., the physician contracting organization for the 6000 physicians employed/affiliated with Partners. In 2007, Dr. Daley was named by Modern Healthcare as one of the top 25 women leaders in health care. She was also one of the five inaugural winners of the Leadership Excellence Award presented by the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the US Naval Academy and the Harvard Business Review.
From 2002 to 2007, Dr. Daley was the Chief Medical Officer for Tenet Healthcare. She was responsible for the development and implementation of Tenet's Commitment to Quality (C2Q), an innovative program designed to enhance the overall quality, safety, and productivity of Tenet's care delivery processes. C2Q introduces a series of targeted initiatives to bring about significant improvements in patient safety, evidence-based medicine, utilization and case management, nursing and pharmacy practice, medical staff governance, hospital capacity and patient flow, and other important areas related to patient care. She is instrumental in developing the quality and service excellence and cost-effectiveness practices for Tenet's major clinical service lines (e.g., cardiovascular, orthopedics, oncology, neurosciences, general surgery including bariatric surgery, maternal/child health, and emergency/trauma services). Dr. Daley is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Prior to joining Tenet, she was the Director of the Center for Health Systems Design and Evaluation in the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners HealthCare System in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1999 to 2002. She was also Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
From 1996 to 1999, Dr. Daley was the Vice President and Medical Director of Health Care Quality at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a 600-bed Harvard teaching hospital. She had clinical and operational responsibility for care/case management, risk management and external compliance, quality measurement and improvement, and clinical practice guideline development and implementation.
From 1990 to 1996, Dr. Daley was the recipient of a Senior Career Development Award in Health Services Research and Development from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Her research and quality improvement activities focused on access to care, patient satisfaction, utilization and outcomes in ischemic heart disease, and the development of a nationally recognized outcomes and quality improvement program in surgery, the VA National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.
Between 1979 and 1987, Dr. Daley was a clinician-teacher and practicing internist at the New England Medical Center in Boston and joined the General Medicine faculty at the Beth Israel Hospital in 1987.
Dr. Daley is the author of over 140 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and clinical communications. She served on the editorial board of the Annals of Internal Medicine from 1999 to 2001. From 1995 to 1999, she coedited a monthly series in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Clinical Crossroads. She is the author of the Guidebook on Uses of Mortality Data and coeditor of Through the Patient’s Eyes. Dr. Daley received her Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Brown University and her medical degree at Tufts University School of Medicine. She completed postgraduate training in internal medicine at the New England Medical Center in Boston and her general medicine fellowship at Harvard Medical School.
|
|
Verna C. Gibbs, MD
 Dr. Gibbs is Professor of
Clinical Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Staff Surgeon at the San
Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC), and Chair of the SFVAMC Surgical Service
Quality Improvement Committee. Dr. Gibbs has led multiple initiatives to develop and implement
specific quality improvement and safety practices related to all phases of surgical care.
She also coordinates participation of the SFVAMC Surgical Service in the National Surgical QI
Program (NSQIP) for Surgical Outcome Reporting, coordinated from 2001–2004 UCSF's participation
in the ACS/NSQIP program, and is currently a member of the ACS/NSQIP Definitions Committee.
NSQIP is a national program that provides risk-adjusted surgical case and hospital specific
morbidity and mortality reporting. She has recently directed efforts to focus surgical attention
on the issue of prevention of retained surgical items and is spearheading the efforts on a project
entitled "Nothing Left Behind." This project has developed a multi-stakeholder policy for ORs
to use to guide OR personnel in establishing best practices to prevent retained surgical items,
is working with various hospitals to study new processes of care to prevent retention, and is
conducting clinical trials of new counting and radiofrequency detecting devices to prevent
retained sponges.
|
|
Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH
Dr. Kaushal is the Director of Quality and Patient Safety, Komansky Center for Children's Health at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, an Assistant Professor at Cornell Weill Medical School, and an Associate Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. She received her MD cum laude from Harvard Medical School. She did her residency training at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital, Boston, and is double board certified in internal medicine and pediatrics. After residency, Dr. Kaushal obtained an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health during a clinical effectiveness fellowship.
Dr. Kaushal is an expert in patient safety and information technology. She performed one of the first studies of medication errors and adverse drug events in hospitalized children. She has studied health information technology extensively, including the structure, costs, and potential societal benefits of a national health information network. Dr. Kaushal has also performed work assessing the return on investment and patient safety implications of specific clinical information technology applications. In her administrative role, she is responsible for refining the computerized physician order entry and electronic health record systems at the hospital.
She serves as a consultant to patient safety and information technology investigators across the United States and internationally. She has authored evidence based reviews of important patient safety practices, including computerized physician order entry and clinical pharmacists. She has lectured extensively internationally. Finally, she is an appointed member of the NIH health services research study section.
|
|
Lee A. Learman, MD, PhD
 Dr. Learman is
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Learman received his MD and PhD (social psychology) at
Harvard University in a program supported by the MacArthur Foundation to establish physician-scientists in
the social science disciplines. He has collaborated in numerous Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality–funded research projects aimed at exploring the appropriateness of prenatal genetic
testing decisions and treatment decisions for noncancerous uterine conditions. At UCSF, Dr. Learman
served as the Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program Director from 1998–2007 and was appointed
Director of Curricular Affairs in the Dean's Office of Graduate Medical Education in 2006. His national
leadership roles include election to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Council on
Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology (CREOG), appointment to the CREOG Task Force on the ACGME
Competencies, and service as an oral examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. |
|
Bryan A. Liang, MD, PhD, JD
 Dr. Liang is Executive Director and Professor of Law, Institute of Health Law Studies, California Western School of Law; and Co-Director and Adjunct Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, both in San Diego, CA. Dr. Liang's research focuses on patient safety and legal issues in this area. He has been a member of the Research Program Committee of the National Patient Safety Foundation since its inception and is a member of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation's Task Force on Legal Issues of Patient Safety Data Collection and Analysis Systems. Dr. Liang serves on several editorial boards, including the AHRQ Web M&M, Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, Core Content of Family Medicine, Quality and Safety in Health Care, Journal of Patient Safety, Journal of Biolaw & Business, Virtual Mentor: Ethics Journal of the American Medical Association, and Survey of Anesthesiology. Dr. Liang's work on the interface of law and patient safety has appeared in more than 200 articles, books, and commentaries in the legal, medical, and public policy literature. He is a member of the Patient Safety Health Literacy Advisory Panel of the American Medical Association as well as the Patient Safety Workgroup of the Federation of State Medical Board. He also serves as an Advisor and Board Member of the Partnership for Safe Medicines. |
|
Michael D. Murray, PharmD, MPH
 Dr. Murray is
Mescal S. Ferguson Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes & Policy
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directs the Center for Pharmaceutical
Outcomes & Policy. Prior to his arrival at North Carolina in 2004, Dr. Murray was Bucke Professor of
Pharmacy at Purdue University and Director of Healthcare Data and Epidemiology at Regenstrief Institute.
Dr. Murray’s research involves developing pharmacy services to improve drug therapy in people with
chronic diseases, health care utilization of low-income minority people, and pharmacoepidemiology using
large population computer databases, including measuring medication errors and adverse drug events in
the outpatient setting. Dr. Murray is a recipient of the Award for Excellence in Health Science Research
from the Indiana Public Health Foundation, and he was named a Purdue University Faculty Scholar. He is a
fellow of the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology. His research has been funded by the
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Institutes of Health. He is chair of the
United States Pharmacopeia's Expert Panel on Safe Medication Use, an expert panel member of the Joint
Commission International Center for Patient Safety, and an ex-officio member of the National Coordinating
Council on Medication Error Reporting and Prevention. |
|
Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD
 Dr.
Pronovost is a practicing anesthesiologist and critical care physician, a
lecturer, a patient safety researcher, and leader. He is a Professor in the
Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and Surgery in the
School of Medicine, and Health Policy and Management in the Bloomberg School of
Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Pronovost holds a PhD in
clinical investigation from the Johns Hopkins Graduate Training Program in
Clinical Investigation at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Pronovost has written more than 140 articles and chapters in the fields of
patient safety, ICU care, quality health care, and evidence-based medicine.
Within the Johns Hopkins community, he is the medical director for the Center
for Innovations in Quality Patient Care and co-chairs the hospital's Patient
Safety Committee. Nationwide, he is chair of the ICU Advisory Panel for Quality
Measures with JCAHO, chair of the ICU Physician Staffing Committee for the
Leapfrog Group, helps lead an effort to develop the ideal ICU design with the
Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and is developing standards for ICU
quality nationwide.
Dr. Pronovost is currently leading two large nationwide safety projects, funded
by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In the first, he is
implementing an error reporting system in 30 intensive care units in the United
States. His second project is working with the Keystone Center for Patient
Safety & Quality at the MHA Health Foundation to improve care in more than
70 ICUs in the state of Michigan. In a previous study, Dr. Pronovost evaluated
the association between ICU organizational characteristics and outcomes, which
formed the basis for the Leapfrog Group's ICU purchasing specification.
|
|
Ajit K. Sachdeva, MD
Dr. Sachdeva is director of the Division of Education at the American College
of Surgeons. He has led efforts to establish this new division and has launched
new initiatives to address the core competencies in surgery, pursue innovative
education to enhance surgical patient safety, expand the repertoire of
experiential learning programs, offer distance education, advance the use of
simulations and simulators in surgery, and evaluate educational outcomes. Dr.
Sachdeva is also Adjunct Professor of Surgery at The Feinberg School of
Medicine at Northwestern University.
Prior to joining the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Sachdeva was the Leon C.
Sunstein, Jr., Professor of Medical and Health Sciences Education and Professor
and Vice Chairman for Educational Affairs, Department of Surgery, at the MCP
Hahnemann School of Medicine. He had also held the positions of Associate Dean
for Medical Education and director of an Academic Center for Educational
Excellence. Dr. Sachdeva served as chief of surgical services at the
Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center for more than 8 years, during
which he planned and directed the expansion of tertiary care services staffed
by two medical schools (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and MCP
Hahnemann School of Medicine). Dr. Sachdeva has also served as president of the
Association for Surgical Education, president of the American Association for
Cancer Education, and president of the Alliance for Clinical Education.
Dr. Sachdeva has received the Distinguished Educator (a Lifetime Achievement
Award) of the Association for Surgical Education, the Lindback Award for
Distinguished Teaching, the Blockley-Osler Award for Excellence in Clinical
Teaching, the Board of Trustees’ Award for Teaching Excellence, and several
Golden Apple Awards for effective teaching. Dr. Sachdeva has also received the
Frances M. Maitland Award for significant contribution to the field of
Continuing Medical Education. He has been the recipient of a number of major
educational grants and has published in peer-reviewed journals on a variety of
educational topics.
|
|
Eric J. Thomas, MD, MPH
 Dr. Thomas is an Associate Professor
of Medicine at the University of Texas Houston Medical School. Dr. Thomas attended the University of Texas at
Austin and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and completed his internal medicine residency
at UT Southwestern affiliated hospitals. In 1994, he completed a general internal medicine fellowship at Brigham
and Women's Hospital and received a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University. He then joined the
Harvard Medical School Faculty before joining UT Houston Medical School in 1998. Dr. Thomas is a general
internist at Memorial Hermann Hospital and teaches students and residents at UT Houston Medical School.
Since 1992, he has conducted research on patient safety, and his work was heavily cited in the Institute of
Medicine's landmark report on medical error. With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Dr. Thomas has collaborated with numerous colleagues to
translate safety practices from aviation to health care. Dr. Thomas' current research focuses on measuring
provider attitudes relevant to patient safety (safety "culture"), measuring and improving teamwork, close
call reporting, organizational learning, the use of telemedicine technology to remotely monitor ICU patients,
and diagnostic errors. In 2007, he received the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for
Research from the National Quality Forum and Joint Commission.
|
|
Matthew B. Weinger, MD
Dr. Weinger holds the Norman Ty Smith Chair in Patient Safety and Medical Simulation and is a
Professor of Anesthesiology, Biomedical Informatics, and Medical Education at Vanderbilt
University. He is the Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Perioperative Research in Quality
and the Simulation Technologies Program Director in the Vanderbilt Center for Experiential
Learning and Assessment. His research and academic activities have focused on patient safety,
human factors research, and clinical decision-making for two decades. He received the first
James S. Todd Memorial Award for Patient Safety Research from the National Patient Safety
Foundation in 1998. Dr. Weinger is a member of the Executive Committee of the Anesthesia
Patient Safety Foundation and is Co-Chairman of the Association for the Advancement of Medical
Instrumentation Human Factors Committee, which focuses on developing national standards for
all medical device user interfaces.
|
|
Albert Wu, MD, MPH
 Dr. Wu is Professor
in the Departments of Health Policy and Management, Medicine, and Surgery at The Johns Hopkins University
Schools of Public Health and Medicine, and a practicing internist. Dr. Wu's research focuses on quality
of life and outcomes research in people with chronic diseases, and assessing and improving the quality of
care. Dr. Wu has a 20-year research interest in medical mistakes and has studied the impact, handling, and
disclosure of mistakes. He was Co-PI on an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)-funded project
on a web-based ICU Safety Reporting System. He is PI on the AHRQ-funded Johns Hopkins DEcIDE center and
was a member of the Institute of Medicine committee on identifying and preventing medication errors. He
recently produced a 25-minute educational video entitled "Removing Insult from Injury: Disclosing Adverse
Events." He is senior advisor to the World Health Organization's World Alliance for Patient Safety.
|
|
|
|
|
