← PreviousNext → 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…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
← PreviousNext → 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…
← PreviousNext → 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…
← PreviousNext → 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…
← PreviousNext → 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…
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,…
← PreviousNext → 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…
← PreviousNext → Brian Kaminski, DO. Vice President of Patient Safety and Quality and Patient Safety Officer at ProMedica (Toledo, Ohio). Dr. Kaminski is in his third year of leading an initiative at ProMedica dedicated to implementing high reliability organizational…
← PreviousNext → Mark Jarrett, MD. Senior Vice President of Clinical Excellence and Chief Quality Officer of Northwell Health (Great Neck, N.Y.). Dr. Jarrett is responsible for systemwide initiatives in quality and safety at Northwell Health, one of the largest…