Louise-Marie Dembry, MD. President-elect of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. As SHEA’s 2015 board of trustees president-elect, Dr. Dembry supports the organization’s mission to prevent and control healthcare-associated infections and advance the field of healthcare…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Krishna Das, MD. Chief Quality Officer for Cook County Health & Hospitals System (Chicago). As chief quality officer, Dr. Das leads quality improvement and patient safety initiatives for the third largest public hospital system in the nation.…
Patrick Conway, MD. CMS Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality and CMO of CMS. As deputy administrator and CMO of CMS, Dr. Conway leads the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality — the center responsible for all…
Michael Cohen, (MS, RPh). President of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices. For more than two decades, Dr. Cohen has served at the helm of ISMP, a nonprofit healthcare organization that specializes in understanding the causes of…
Linda Groah, RN, MSN, CNOR, CNAA, FAAN. Executive Director and CEO of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses. Ms. Groah has led AORN as CEO and executive director since March 2007, and she has years of experience…
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Mark R. Chassin, MD. President and CEO of The Joint Commission. In addition to leading The Joint Commission, Dr. Chassin is also president of TJC’s Center for Transforming Healthcare. The center was established in 2009 under Dr.…
MaryAnn Chanes, RN. Quality and Risk Manager at Children’s Hospital of Orange County at Mission Hospital (Orange, Calif.). Ms. Chanes was made quality and risk manager at CHOC Children’s at Mission Hospital in 2011. As the manager,…
Christine Cassel, MD. President and CEO of the National Quality Forum. Dr. Cassel was made president and CEO of the NQF in 2013. As the head of the organization, she oversees the establishment of national priorities for…
Mark Graber, MD. Senior Fellow in the Health Care Quality and Outcomes Program for RTI International. Dr. Graber has more than 30 years of experience in academic medicine and healthcare research, specializing in diagnostic errors and patient safety. He…
Pascale Carayon, PhD. Human Factors Engineering Expert. As an expert in human factors engineering Dr. Carayon has studied medical errors and their causes in a variety of healthcare settings, including outpatient surgery, intensive care units, information technology,…