← Previous Next → Joe Kiani. Founder of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. More than 200,000 preventable patient deaths happen in U.S. hospitals each year, and Mr. Kiani created the Patient Safety Movement Foundation in 2013 to reduce…
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← Previous Next → Brent James, MD. Chief Quality Officer of Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City). In addition to serving as CQO of Intermountain, a 22-hospital system, Dr. James is also the executive director of the Intermountain Institute…
50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety | 2015 Becker's Hospital Review is pleased to announce the 2015 edition of its list of "50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety."
← Previous Next → Tejal K. Gandhi, MD. President and CEO of the National Patient Safety Foundation. After being made president of NPSF in 2013, Dr. Gandhi quickly moved up to president and CEO of the foundation in 2014.…
← Previous photo courtesy of Duke University Next → Karen Frush, MD. Chief Patient Safety Officer of Duke University Health System (Durham, N.C.). Dr. Frush became chief patient safety officer at Duke University Health System in 2004, shortly after she…
← Previous Next → Samuel Flanders, MD. Chief Quality and Safety Officer of Beaumont Health (Royal Oak, Mich.). Dr. Flanders joined Beaumont Health — a nonprofit formed by Beaumont Health System, Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Botsford Health Care and Dearborn,…
← Previous Next → Sir Liam Donaldson. Patient Safety Envoy for the World Health Organization. An international champion for patient safety, Sir Donaldson serves as the patient safety envoy for the WHO and chairman of the Independent Monitoring for…
← Previous Next → Cynthia Deyling, MD. Chief Quality Officer at Cleveland Clinic. In addition to serving as Cleveland Clinic’s chief quality officer, Dr. Deyling has also served as chairman of regional operations for the Board of Governors since…
← Previous Next → 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…
← Previous Next → 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…