Patient Safety & Outcomes

Clifford Y. Ko, MD. Director of American College of Surgeons’ National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. As the director of American College of Surgeons’ National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, Dr. Ko oversees all the organization’s quality improvement programs, including the cancer…

Joe Kiani. Founder of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation.  Mr. Kiani founded PSMF in 2013 for the purpose of eliminating preventable patient deaths by 2020. Mr. Kiani has been lauded with numerous awards throughout his career, including a SafeCare Person…

Brian Kaminski, DO. Vice President of Quality and Patient Safety and Patient Safety Officer at ProMedica (Toledo, Ohio). Dr. Kaminski was appointed to his role at ProMedica in 2013. Since that time, 15,000 ProMedica employees have completed error reduction training…

Ann Hendrich, PhD, RN. Senior Vice President and Chief Quality/Safety and Nursing Officer of Ascension Health (St. Louis). In addition to her executive roles at Ascension Health, Dr. Hendrich serves as the executive director of the health system’s Patient Safety…

Helen Haskell. President of Mothers Against Medical Error. Ms. Haskell has sought to improve patient safety and quality after her son, Lewis, died from a medical error in 2000. She serves on the board of directors at the National Patient…

Linda Groah, MSN, RN. Executive Director and CEO of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses. Prior to joining AORN in 2007, Ms. Groah served as the COO of Kaiser Foundation Hospital in San Francisco, where she implemented numerous patient safety…

Mark Graber, MD. Senior Fellow in the Healthcare Quality and Outcomes Program for RTI International. Dr. Graber is the senior fellow in the Healthcare Quality and Outcomes Program for RTI International and serves as president of the Society to Improve…

Atul Gawande, MD. Author and Endocrinologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston). Dr. Gawande practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and teaches at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston. He is the…

Tejal K. Gandhi, MD. President and CEO of the National Patient Safety Foundation. Dr. Gandhi is currently the president and CEO of the National Patient Safety Foundation, which is merging with the Institute for Healthcare effective May 1. After the…

Karen Frush, MD. Chief Patient Safety Officer of Duke University Health System (Durham, N.C.) and Vice President, Quality of LifePoint Health (Brentwood, Tenn.). Dr. Frush serves as LifePoint Health’s vice president of quality and chief patient safety officer of Duke…