← PreviousNext → 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.…
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← PreviousNext → 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…
← PreviousNext → 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…
← PreviousNext → 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…
← PreviousNext → 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…
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← PreviousNext → 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…
← PreviousNext → 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…
← PreviousNext → 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…
← PreviousNext → 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…
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.