Lucian Leape, MD. Physician and Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The first portion of Dr. Leape’s career was centered on pediatric surgery — he was instrumental in the founding of the American Pediatric Surgical Association. In…
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Stephen Lawless, MD. Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer at Nemours Children’s Health System (Jacksonville, Fla.). Dr. Lawless is a pediatric physician and a professor of pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia in addition to his role at…
Richard Kronick, PhD. Former Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Kronick originally joined the HHS in January 2010 as deputy assistant secretary for planning and evaluation, overseeing the Office of Health Policy. In August 2013, Dr.…
Clifford Y. Ko, MD. Director of American College of Surgeons’ National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. In his role at the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Ko oversees all the quality improvement programs, including the bariatric surgery accreditation program, the cancer…
Sara Cosgrove, MD. President-Elect of Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. In addition to her position at SHEA, Dr. Cosgrove serves as the director of the antimicrobial stewardship program and the associate hospital epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.…
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Patrick Conway, MD. Deputy Administrator for Innovation & Quality of CMS and CMO of CMS. The offices led by Dr. Conway — the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation — are responsible…
Michael R. Cohen, RPh. President of The Institute for Safe Medication Practices. In addition to his role as president of the ISMP, an organization dedicated to the investigation of medication error causation and the creation of error-reduction strategies, Dr. Cohen…
Scott E. Glaser to speak on patient safety at the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
Annual meeting provides a national platform for his efforts to improve the safety of epidural injections
New health economic data from a retrospective analysis suggests use of OFIRMEV® (acetaminophen) injection, coupled with a one-level reduction in opioid use (high to medium, medium to low, or low to none), was associated with decreased length of hospital stay,…
Joe Kiani. Founder of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. As the founder of Masimo Corporation, a global medical technology innovator credited with revolutionizing noninvasive patient monitoring, Mr. Kiani has been at the forefront of patient safety and innovation for more…