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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.
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Jennifer Daley, MD
 Dr. Daley is senior vice president, clinical quality and chief medical officer for Tenet Healthcare Corporation.
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.
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Verna C. Gibbs, MD
 Dr. Gibbs is Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is the Director of the Department of Surgery Quality Improvement Program and is co-chair of the hospital's Patient Safety Committee. She is also a staff surgeon at the San Francisco Veteran's 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 UCSF and the SFVAMC in the National Surgical QI Program (NSQIP) for Surgical Outcome Reporting, which is at the forefront of efforts to provide risk-adjusted surgical case and hospital specific morbidity and mortality reporting nationally. Dr. Gibbs has recently directed efforts to focus surgical attention on the issue of prevention of retained foreign bodies and is spearheading the efforts on the project entitled "Nothing Left Behind."
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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.
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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. 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 Quality and Research–funded
research projects aimed at exploring the appropriateness of prenatal genetic testing decisions and treatment decisions for noncancerous uterine conditions and has been involved in quality improvement activities at San Francisco General Hospital for more than 10 years. Dr. Learman has served as the Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program Director since 1998 and is a member of the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology and its Task Force on the ACGME Competencies. In addition, he serves as an oral examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
In 2006, Dr. Learman was appointed Director of Curricular Affairs in the UCSF Office
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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.
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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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, 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 closely with Dr. Robert Helmreich and numerous other colleagues throughout the UT System 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, and organizational learning.
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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 on the Executive Board of Directors 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. |
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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 15-year research interest in medical mistakes and has studied the impact, handling, and disclosure of mistakes. He is Co-PI on a project funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 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 has recently produced a 25-minute educational video entitled "Removing Insult from Injury: Disclosing Adverse Events." |
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