Patient Safety & Outcomes

Rustin Morse, MD. Vice President of Quality at Children’s Health (Dallas) In his current role, Dr. Morse works to improve patient safety and quality at Children’s Health where he practices as an emergency medicine physician. Under his leadership, Children’s Health reduced…

James Merlino, MD. President and CMO of Chief Strategic Consulting for Press Ganey (South Bend, Ind.) Dr. Merlino brings more than 20 years of healthcare experience to his position at Press Ganey where he leads a consultancy team that works…

Lisa McGiffert. Director of Consumers Union’s Safe Patient Project.. Director of Consumers Union’s Safe Patient Project. Ms. McGiffert joined Consumer Unions in 1991 where she began working on Texas health issues including care access, health system reform, physician and hospital…

David Mayer, MD. Vice President of Quality and Safety at MedStar Health (Columbia, Md.). Dr. Mayer is responsible for overseeing clinical quality and directing the patient safety and risk reduction programs at MedStar Health, a 10-hospital health system. Dr. Mayer…

Ken Maxik. Director of Patient Safety of CompleteRx (Houston). Mr. Maxik has held his current position with CompleteRx — a hospital pharmacy management and patient care company — since 2006. At CompleteRx, Mr. Maxik oversees the patient safety division and…

Julie Marhalik-Helms, BSN, RN. Senior Director of Quality Improvement of North American Partners in Anesthesia (Melville, N.Y.). In her role at NAPA, which provides anesthesia services to more than 200 clinical sites, Ms. Marhalik-Helms is responsible for the  patient safety…

Helen Macfie, PharmD. Chief Transformation Officer of MemorialCare Health System (Fountain Valley, Calif.). In her role as chief transformation officer, Dr. Macfie oversees systemwide clinical quality and patient safety improvement initiatives across a five-hospital nonprofit health system with more than 200…

Jeffrey C. Lerner, PhD. President and CEO of ECRI Institute. Prior to assuming the role of CEO at the ECRI Institute, Dr. Lerner held the position of vice president for strategic planning for 17 years. He’s led the institute —…

Lucian Leape, MD. Physician and Adjunct Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Boston). Dr. Leape became an innovator in health policy after spending more than two decades working in pediatric surgery. Dr. Leape began working in healthcare…

Stephen Lawless, MD. Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer at Nemours Children’s Health System (Jacksonville, Fla.). In addition to overseeing quality and safety across the Nemours Children’s Health System, Dr. Lawless is a board-certified pediatric physician and a professor…