Dr. Seferian provides executive leadership for enterprisewide patient safety, quality, performance improvement and infection prevention at one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers, where he oversees the culture of safety, root cause analysis effectiveness, hospital-acquired infection reduction, and the hospital’s communication and resolution program. He served on the technical expert panel for the CMS patient safety structural measure, helping shape federal expectations for hospital safety infrastructure and governance, and is a member of the Maryland Health Services cost review commission performance measurement work group. Previously, at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, he launched a 100% mortality review process, implemented a transparent safety reporting program and led an initiative to eliminate harm at the end of life while advancing goal-concordant care. Dr. Seferian is a co-investigator on a National Institutes of Health-funded grant focused on improving frontline safety reporting systems, and serves as a professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Johns Hopkins Hospital has received Magnet redesignation and remains on the U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals Honor Roll.”
