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Robert M. Wachter, MD, Editor
 Dr. Wachter is Professor and Associate Chairman of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is also chief of the medical service at UCSF Medical Center, where he directs UCSF's hospitalist program and chairs the UCSF Patient Safety Committee. In addition to his work on AHRQ WebM&M, he is also lead editor of "Quality Grand Rounds," a case-based series on medical errors and patient safety in the Annals of Internal Medicine. He was project director and co-editor of Making Healthcare Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices, produced for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and published in 2001. He has been a national leader in the hospitalist movement, having coined the term "hospitalist" in a 1996 New England Journal of Medicine article, authored many of the key research studies, edited the main textbook in the field (Hospital Medicine, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005), and served as the first elected President of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), the fastest growing physician professional society in the United States.
Dr. Wachter received both his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a resident and chief resident in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford University. Prior to his present positions, he served as the program director of the 6th International Conference on AIDS and the director of UCSF's internal medicine residency training program. He has published more than 100 articles and several books and monographs in the areas of clinical outcomes, medical ethics, health services research, medical education, and health care quality. His book (with Dr. Shojania) on medical errors, Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Epidemic of Medical Mistakes, was published by Rugged Land in early 2004.
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Niraj L. Sehgal, MD, MPH, Associate
Editor
Dr. Sehgal is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he spends approximately half his time as a clinical-educator on the inpatient medical service and the rest as an investigator with interests in patient safety and quality measurement.
Dr. Sehgal sits on local patient safety committees and carries a strong interest in developing model units to test the most effective strategies to improve both the quality and safety of care in hospitalized patients. He co-authored a chapter on quality measurement in the leading textbook on Hospital Medicine, and he is working to improve the collaboration among physicians with nurses, pharmacists, and administrators in designing patient safety interventions.
Dr. Sehgal received his medical degree from Rush University in Chicago. He completed a residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford University Hospital and Clinics before moving on to complete a fellowship at the Stanford Prevention Research Center studying prevention outcomes. During his fellowship, he earned a Masters in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Sumant Ranji, MD, Associate
Editor
Dr. Ranji is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Ranji has a strong interest in quality improvement research in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. He has completed systematic reviews of quality improvement strategies for diabetes care, outpatient antibiotic use, and prevention of health care–associated infections for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and is actively involved in quality improvement (QI) efforts at UCSF Medical Center. He maintains an active clinical and teaching role, including serving as the faculty advisor for the categorical Internal Medicine Residency program journal club and attending on the ward and medical consult services at Moffitt-Long Hospital and Mount Zion Hospital.
Dr. Ranji received his medical degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed his Internal Medicine residency training at the University of Chicago and subsequently served as Chief Medical Resident at Cook County Hospital. He joined the UCSF Hospitalist Group in 2004 after completing a 2-year fellowship in Hospital Medicine and Clinical Research at UCSF.
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Russ Cucina, MD, MS, Informatics Consultant
Dr. Cucina is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His research is in clinical human-computer interaction science with an emphasis on human factors and patient safety, decision support systems and automated clinical inference, sociotechnical aspects of clinical information systems, information storage and retrieval methods, and knowledge representation and management.
Prior to his work with AHRQ Patient Safety Network, Dr. Cucina participated in knowledge management projects with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, as well as on information storage and retrieval projects at Stanford Medical Informatics and with a number of medical publishing houses. He attends regularly on the inpatient Medicine Service, on the Medical Consultation Service, and in the Screening and Acute Care Clinic, all at UCSF Medical Center. Operationally, Dr. Cucina works with UCSF Medical Center's information services department on the enterprise clinical information systems, and was previously the physician lead for Stanford Hospital & Clinic's computerized provider order entry and multidisciplinary electronic documentation projects. He consults for a number of clinical software and technology vendors, community hospitals, and academic centers regionally and nationally.
Dr. Cucina received his medical degree from the University of California, Davis. He was resident and chief resident in Internal Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Cucina also holds a Master’s degree in biomedical informatics from Stanford University.
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Kaveh G. Shojania, MD, Deputy
Editor
Dr. Shojania is Assistant Professor of Medicine
at the University of Ottawa and Scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Program
at the Ottawa Health Research Institute, where he holds a Canada Research Chair
in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement. Previously Dr. Shojania was
Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco
(UCSF), where he was one of the founding editors of AHRQ WebM&M. He
was also lead editor (and authored six chapters) of Making Healthcare Safer,
the evidence report produced for AHRQ following the publication of the
Institute of Medicine Report, To Err Is Human.
While at UCSF, Dr. Shojania helped developed the case-based series "Quality
Grand Rounds" in the Annals of Internal Medicine and co-authored (with
Robert M. Wachter, MD) a book for a general audience on medical error and
patient safety.
Dr. Shojania has published several papers on the topic of efficient strategies
for searching the health care literature. The National Library of Medicine used
one of these strategies as the basis for the systematic review filter in the
Clinical Queries section of PubMed. In addition, Dr. Shojania sits on several
local and national committees focusing on patient safety, as well the editorial
boards for the Joint Commission Journal for Quality and Safety and the
forthcoming Journal of Patient Safety.
Dr. Shojania received his medical degree from the University of Manitoba and
his residency training at Harvard’s Brigham and Women's Hospital. He then
completed a hospital medicine fellowship at UCSF and subsequently joined the
faculty for three years before returning to Canada.
In April 2002, he received the Young Investigator Award from the Society for
Hospital Medicine. In October 2004, he shared with Dr. Robert Wachter one of
the John M. Eisenberg Awards in Patient Safety from the National Quality Forum
and the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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| Erin Hartman, MS, Project Manager and Managing Editor |
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Peggy Lee, Editorial Assistant
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Lorri Zipperer, MA, Managing Cybrarian
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