Patient Safety & Outcomes

Robert M. Wachter, MD. Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine University of California San Francisco. In addition to his faculty appointments with the University of California San Francisco’s department of medicine, Dr. Wachter is chief of the…

Robert K. Stoelting, MD. President of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation. In 2003, Dr. Stoelting became the first full-time president of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation. He has been a member of the Indiana University School of Medicine department of…

Lisa McGiffert. Director of Consumers Union’s Safe Patient Project. Ms. McGiffert has been a resolute advocate for patient safety. She has worked to eliminate preventable medical errors and to improve the safety of physician care and medical devices. She lobbies…

Ken Maxik. Director of Patient Safety and Pharmacy Compliance of CompleteRx (Houston). Mr. Maxik has worked with hospitals for more than 20 years on patient safety and compliance. At CompleteRx — a hospital pharmacy management and patient care company —Mr.…

Julie Marhalik-Helms, BSN, RN. Senior Director of Quality Improvement of North American Partners in Anesthesia (Melville, N.Y.). Ms. Marhalik-Helms is a registered nurse with 18 years of hospital experience. She visits NAPA’s client locations with regularity to train and educate…

Helen Macfie, PharmD. Chief Transformation Officer of MemorialCare Health System (Fountain Valley, Calif.). In her role at MemorialCare, a six-hospital health system serving Southern California, Dr. Macfie is responsible for leading systemwide transformation and improvement in the system’s clinical quality,…

Rachel Levine, MD. Chair of the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority. As the physician general of Pennsylvania, Dr. Levine heads up the safety authority and advises the governor on public health matters and policy. The PPSA works to reduce or eliminate…

A two-year-old girl suffered a superficial gunshot wound in the emergency room of Merit Health Central Hospital in Jackson, Miss., after a gun in her mother's purse accidentally went off, according to The Clarion-Ledger.

Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS), or Willis-Ekbom disease (WED) is one of the most common chronic sensorimotor neurological conditions encountered by clinicians. It occurs in 5% to 10% of the adult population in the United States and 2-3% is said to…

Jeffrey C. Lerner, PhD. President and CEO of ECRI Institute.  Dr. Lerner has been the CEO of ECRI — the largest independent nonprofit healthcare technology assessment institute that is focused on improving patient care — since 2001. He previously held…