Patient Safety & Outcomes

← PreviousNext → Ann Hendrich, RN, PhD. Senior Vice President and Chief Quality/Safety and Nursing Officer of Ascension Health (St. Louis). In her role at Ascension, Dr. Hendrich guides the implementation of clinical excellence initiatives for one of the largest…

← PreviousNext → Helen Haskell, MA. President of Mothers Against Medical Error. Ms. Haskell founded Mothers Against Medical Error in 2000 after a medical error contributed to the death of her son. In addition to advocating for medical error disclosure,…

← PreviousNext → Hitinder Gurm, MD. Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center. Dr. Gurm was recently awarded the Michigan Health & Hospital Association Keystone Center Patient Safety & Quality Leadership Award…

← PreviousNext → Linda Groah, MSN, RN. Executive Director and CEO of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses. Ms. Groah has dedicated her career to perioperative nursing practice, education and executive management. Ms. Groah has led AORN as CEO and…

← PreviousNext → Katherine Grichnik, MD. Vice President of Quality and Safety at MEDNAX. MEDNAX is one of the largest medical groups in the country, and Dr. Grichnik plays a critical role in directing the group’s quality and safety programs…

← PreviousNext → Mark Graber, MD. Senior Fellow in the Healthcare Quality and Outcomes Program for RTI International. Dr. Graber is a national leader in patient safety and the originator of Patient Safety Awareness Week, which began in 2003 and…

← PreviousNext → Atul Gawande, MD. Dr. Gawande is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital in Boston. His 2009 book, “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right,” champions the use of checklists to prevent against…

  ← PreviousNext → Tejal K. Gandhi, MD. President and CEO of the National Patient Safety Foundation. Before leading the NPSF, Dr. Gandhi was the executive director of quality and safety at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston for 10…

  ← PreviousNext → Karen Frush, MD. Vice President of Quality of LifePoint Health (Brentwood, Tenn.). Dr. Frush graduated summa cum laude from University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing in 1981, and from the Duke University School of Medicine in…

← PreviousNext → Tom Frieden, MD. Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Frieden was named director of the CDC in 2009 by President Barack Obama. In that role, he leads the nation’s efforts to control health…