Patient Safety & Outcomes

← PreviousNext → 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…

← PreviousNext → 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.…

← PreviousNext → 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…

← PreviousNext → 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…

← PreviousNext → 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…

← PreviousNext → 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…

← 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.…

← 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…