Dr. Wickner leads enterprisewide patient safety at CVS Health, partnering across patient care businesses to deliver safe, high-quality care. She also directs the system’s Patient Safety Organization, guiding event response, proactive safety solutions, and innovative structures to reduce errors and improve outcomes. Prior to joining CVS Health, she held multiple leadership roles at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, including head of the division of allergy and clinical immunology quality and safety and medical director in the department of quality and safety. A practicing allergist and immunologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, she also serves as a part-time assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Wickner has operationalized and published quality improvement initiatives focused on drug allergy, antibiotic stewardship and Covid-19 vaccination.
