Joan Silver, RN. Vice President of Organizational Quality and Performance Improvement and Patient Safety Officer for PinnacleHealth (Harrisburg, Pa.). Ms. Silver, who has more than 25 years of experience, took her current role at PinnacleHealth in…
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Kaveh G. Shojania, MD. Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Quality & Safety. Dr. Shojania is a scientist at the Toronto-based Sunnybrook Research Institute and director of the Centre for Patient Safety at the University of Toronto. His research…
Kenneth Sands, MD. Chief Quality Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston). Dr. Sands is the chief quality officer and senior vice president of healthcare quality at BIDMC as well as an associate professor of…
Gina Pugliese RN. Vice President of Premier Safety Institute. With more than 40 years of experience in healthcare safety, Ms. Pugliese serves as the vice president of the Premier Safety Institute and has adjunct faculty appointments…
Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, FCCM. Senior Vice President for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine (Baltimore). Dr. Pronovost wears many hats — he is a practicing anesthesiologist and critical care physician, the senior vice…
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Brigitta Mueller, MD. Vice President of Medical Affairs and Chief Patient Safety Officer at All Children’s Hospital Johns Hopkins Medicine (St. Petersburg, Fla.). Dr. Mueller joined All Children’s in 2013 after serving as director of the…
Elizabeth A. Mort, MD. Senior Vice President for Quality and Safety at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston). In addition to serving as senior vice president for quality and safety at Mass General and the Massachusetts General Physicians…
James Merlino, MD. President and CMO of Press Ganey’s Strategic Consulting Division. Dr. Merlino, an experienced physician and executive, joined Press Ganey in 2015. In his role there, he helps providers improve the delivery of safe,…
Mary Lou Manning, PhD, CRNP, CIC, FAAN, FNAP. President of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Prevention. In addition to her role as president of APIC, which she assumed in 2015, Dr. Manning is…
Jeffrey C. Lerner, PhD. President and CEO of ECRI Institute. Dr. Lerner has led the ECRI Institute (formerly the Emergency Care Research Institute) since 2001, and he also served as vice president for strategic planning of…