Kaveh G. Shojania, MD. Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Quality & Safety. Dr. Shojania has been editor-in-chief of BMJ Quality & Safety since January 2011. He also serves as director of the Centre for Patient Safety at the University of Toronto and is…
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David Westfall Bates, MD. Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Patient Safety. Dr. Bates is not only the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Patient Safety, he is also the chief innovation officer of Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he uses…
Andy Slavitt. Acting Administrator of CMS. Prior to being named acting administrator of CMS, Mr. Slavitt was the principal deputy administrator of the agency. Before joining CMS, he held a number of positions with firms such as Ingenix and Optum.…
Leah Binder. CEO of Leapfrog Group. Ms. Binder has been the CEO of the Leapfrog Group since 2008. Leapfrog is a national nonprofit dedicated to the improvement of healthcare quality, affordability and patient safety in hospitals. Ms. Binder frequently speaks…
Carol Barsky, MD. Vice President, Chief Quality and Patient Safety Officer of Hackensack (N.J.) University Health Network. Dr. Barsky took on her current role in July 2015, joining HackensackUHN from Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital, where she was medical director for…
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David J. Ballard, MD, PhD. Chief Quality Officer for Baylor Scott & White Health (Dallas) and President of the STEEEP Global Institute. After completing degrees in chemistry, economics, epidemiology and medicine at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill,…
David W. Baker, MD. Inaugural Editor-in-Chief of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. In addition to his editor-in-chief role, Dr. Baker is the executive vice president for the Division of Healthcare Quality Evaluation at The Joint Commission,…
Pascale Carayon, PhD. Proctor & Gamble Bascon Professor in Total Quality, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to her role as a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Carayon directs the university’s Center…
Ronald Wyatt, MD. Patient Safety Officer of the Joint Commission. In his current role, Dr. Wyatt works to promote quality improvement and patient safety in health systems and expand the role of the commission in public policy. Additionally, he oversees…
Stephen Weber, MD. Vice President of Clinical Effectiveness and CMO of University of Chicago Medicine. Dr. Weber holds a faculty appointment with the University of Chicago Medicine’s infectious diseases and global health department, in addition to his administrative roles. His…