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James Adams, MD
Dr. Adams is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. He serves as Senior Associate Editor, Academic Emergency Medicine and Section Editor, Rosens Principles and Practice of Emergency Medicine. He has served on the national board of directors of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and has been a member of the national Patient Safety Task Force of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He co-directed the first national consensus conference on error in emergency medicine in 2000. He has numerous publications as well as ongoing research projects and operational initiatives focused on improving the safety of emergency care, specifically related to physical and operational enhancements to achieve measurable technical quality. Other areas of interest and funded research include information management, process controls, communication, and teamwork. |
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Eric Alper, MD
Dr. Alper is Associate Professor of Medicine at UMass Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. As physician safety officer at UMass Memorial Medical Center, he works to improve patient safety and quality in the institution in many areas. Through his leadership, UMass Memorial recently received the Betsy Lehman Patient Safety Recognition Award for its work in medication reconciliation. He completed training through the AHRQ/NCPS Patient Safety Improvement Corps. He is a practicing hospitalist, director of the third-year internal medicine clerkship and a member of the council of Clerkship Directors of Internal Medicine, the national organization that teaches internal medicine to medical students. |
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Michael Astion, MD, PhD
Dr. Astion is an Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He has authored more than 25 peer-reviewed articles, most of which focus on medical education and medical informatics. He has also published 20 educational software titles that are in use at more than 2000 institutions worldwide. |
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David W. Bates, MD, MSc
Dr. Bates is Chief of the Division of General Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, medical director of Clinical and Quality Analysis for Partner's Healthcare Systems, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Bates is nationally recognized for his work on the epidemiology of adverse drug events and for his role in developing and evaluating technological solutions to improving quality, most notably with computerized order entry. Dr. Bates has received the John M. Eisenberg Award from the National Quality Forum and the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations for lifetime achievement in research relating to patient safety, and has been elected to the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Bates is also the editor of the Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management. He trained in clinical epidemiology and is a practicing general internist. |
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Lisa Bellini, MD
Dr. Bellini is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where she is vice chair for Education and Inpatient Services, and director for the internal medicine residency program. Dr. Bellini’s combined responsibilities for education and inpatient care enable her to appreciate the broad spectrum of issues affecting patient safety. Her areas of research include the evaluation of new educational curricula and, most recently, the significance of fatigue and personal distress among medical residents. |
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Mark Bernstein, BSc, MD, MHSc
Dr. Bernstein is Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto and a neurosurgeon at The Toronto Western Hospital within the University Health Network. He was Head of the Division of Neurosurgery at the University Health Network from 1992 to 2002. His main interest in neurosurgery is neuro-oncology and advancement of surgery in the developing world, where he teaches and operates each Fall. He has a strong interest in bioethics, and in 2003 completed a Master of Health Science in bioethics at the University of Toronto. Besides patient safety and error, his main interests in bioethics include surgical teaching, surgical innovation, resource allocation, and research ethics. |
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Sidney T. Bogardus, Jr., MD
Dr. Bogardus is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and medical director of the Dorothy Adler Geriatric Assessment Center at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He has written more than 30 articles covering a range of clinical epidemiological and health services topics in geriatrics. His work focuses on the care of persons with dementia and delirium, on issues of patient-physician communication and medical decision making, and on the care of hospitalized older patients, including ways to improve the care and safety of vulnerable older patients in the hospital. He is the recipient of an American Geriatrics Society New Investigator Award and a Pfizer/American Geriatrics Society Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research on Health Outcomes in Geriatrics. |
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Troyen A. Brennan, MD, JD, MPH
Dr. Brennan is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and president of the Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization. He is also Professor of Law and Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Brennan received law, medicine, and public health degrees from Yale University and trained in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Brennan is best known for his work as the lead investigator in the Harvard Medical Practice Study and the more recent Colorado-Utah study assessing prevalence of adverse events from medical care experienced by hospitalized patients. In addition to his major contributions to our understanding of the epidemiology of medical error and adverse events, Dr. Brennan has written extensively on legal and ethical issues in medicine and public health, as well as numerous other areas of clinical and health services research. In addition to these academic activities, Dr. Brennan serves on the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Committees on Recertification and General Internal Medicine, and he chairs the ABIM Foundation/ACP-ASIM Foundation/European Society for Internal Medicine Medical Professionalism Project 2000. |
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Michael R. Cohen, RPh, MS, DSc
Dr. Cohen is president of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), a nonprofit medical safety agency. ISMP reviews all reports submitted to the USP Medication Errors Reporting Program. Dr. Cohen and his group provide medical error prevention features in publications circulated to more than 2.6 million health professionals monthly. He edits ISMP Medication Safety Alert!, a biweekly sent to more than 6200 U.S. hospitals and health care institutions. Dr. Cohen is author of the text, Medication Errors and associate editor of Hospital Pharmacy. In addition, Dr. Cohen serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Intravenous Nurse Society, Healthcare Risk Control (ECRI), The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement and Sentinel Event Alert, (both JCAHO publications). He also serves on the Drug Safety and Risk Management Subcommittee of the United States Food and Drug Administration. |
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Kathleen Dracup, RN, FNP, CS, DNSc
Dr. Dracup is the Dean of and Professor at the School of Nursing at University of California, San Francisco. She has written more than 300 articles on patient safety, critical care, and cardiovascular care. In her most recent research she has studied the role of patient-nurse partnerships and patient self-management strategies to reduce errors in patient care, particularly in the outpatient setting. Dr. Dracup is the editor of the American Journal of Critical Care and the Associate Editor of the Journal of Cardiac Failure. |
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Bradford W. Duncan, MD
Dr. Duncan is an Internist at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation and a former Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Fellow at Stanford University's Center for Primary Care & Outcomes Research. His areas of interests include medical error and patient safety, quality assessment, and evidence-based medicine. He was an editor of Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices, the synthesis of the patient safety literature produced for AHRQ and was also a contributor to the Refinement of the HCUP Quality Indicators and the HCUP Patient Safety Indicators. |
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Tejal K. Gandhi, MD
Dr. Gandhi is a practicing internist and director of patient safety at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. In her role as director of patient safety, Dr. Gandhi works with nursing, pharmacy, and medical staff to reduce medical error and create a culture of safety. Current initiatives include conducting executive "walk rounds" on patient safety, implementing a web-based error reporting system, and improving the systems approach to analysis of adverse events. In addition, a large educational effort is in place to educate staff about patient safety and disclosure of errors to patients. Dr. Gandhi’s research interests include improving quality and safety using information systems, with an expertise in outpatient medication errors and adverse drug events. Current projects include reducing outpatient adverse drug events with computerized prescribing, improving guideline compliance and tracking and follow-up of abnormal test results with decision support, and improving provider communication in the outpatient referral process using information systems. |
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John Gosbee, MD, MS
Dr. Gosbee has been involved in research and development activities related to patient safety and human factors engineering since 1988. His focus has been on the application of human factors engineering to health care and patient safety invention. He has written numerous practical and theoretical book chapters, articles, and editorials about this multidisciplinary area. His ideas are summarized in the most recent book he co-edited and wrote, Using Human Factors Engineering to Improve Patient Safety (Joint Commission Resources, Pub.). Dr. Gosbee received a medical device design award from Association for Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, and the "Cheers Award" for medication safety innovation from ISMP. He has provided policy and scientific advice to committees at FDA, Institute of Medicine, and National Academy of Sciences. He has co-written the American National Standard guidance document Human Factors Design Process for Medical Devices. In addition, Dr. Gosbee has led numerous efforts to introduce concepts from human factors engineering to medical students, residents, and nursing students. |
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Richard Gross, MD
Dr. Gross is the leader of the Program in Internal and Hospital Medicine at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Professor of Medicine at the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa. He has spoken nationally on various aspects of medical safety and has authored two textbooks on medical decision making and evidence-based medicine, Making Medical Decisions, American College of Physicians, 1999, and Decisions and Evidence in Medical Practice, Mosby, 2001. Most recently, he was co-author of an overview of important safety concepts in the hospital setting in the July 2002 issue of Medical Clinics of North America. |
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Lee H. Hilborne, MD, MPH
Dr. Hilborne chairs the University of California Patient Safety initiative known as the Strategic Alliance for Error Reduction in California Healthcare (SAFER California Healthcare) and is Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine. Dr. Hilborne is also deputy director for Global Health at RAND in Santa Monica, California. Dr. Hilborne is vice president of the American Society for Clinical Pathology and a member of the Board of Directors of California's Institute for Medical Quality. He is a member of the Patient Safety and Performance Measures Committee and the Economic Affairs Committee of the College of American Pathologists (CAP). He is a member of the American Medical Association's CPT Editorial Panel and is also a member of JCAHO's Professional and Technical Advisory Committee for Hospitals. |
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Thomas J. Krizek, MD
Dr. Krizek has published more than 200 articles in general and plastic surgery. Though his major areas of clinical expertise are in burns, wound healing, trauma, and reconstructive surgery, Dr. Krizek was also one of the investigators of the seminal Lancet article in which trained ethnographers observed surgical rounds and conferences over a 6-month period to document a staggeringly high rate of self-identified major errors and injuries. Dr. Krizek has since written other articles promoting increased awareness of and attention to medical error among surgeons. Dr. Krizek’s past academic appointments include chairmanships of plastic surgery at four institutions and chair of surgery at the University of Chicago. He recently semi-retired from surgery and now teaches religion and medicine at the University of South Florida. Dr. Krizek recently completed a term as first vice president of the American College of Surgeons, with a particular focus on patient safety. |
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Christopher Landrigan, MD, MPH
Dr. Landrigan is Director of the Sleep and Patient Safety Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Research and Fellowship Director of the Children's Hospital Boston Inpatient Pediatrics Service, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is a practicing pediatric hospitalist and Chair of the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) Network, a nationwide network of pediatric hospitalists whose goal is to improve the quality of inpatient pediatric care through collaborative research. He has been conducting research on pediatric hospitalist systems and patient safety since 1998. Dr. Landrigan has a particular interest in the impact of sleep deprivation and working conditions on patient safety. |
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Norma M. Lang, RN, PhD
Dr. Lang is the Lillian S. Brunner Professor in Medical Surgical Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Her pioneering work identified standards for measuring nursing care and quality and her Lang Model has been adopted in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. In 2001, the JCAHO awarded the Codman Award for her leadership in promoting performance measures. Dr. Lang developed the Nursing Minimum Data Set with Dr. Harriet Werley. From 1989 to 1997, she chaired the ANA Steering Committee on Data Bases for Clinical Practice and was a consultant to the International Council of Nurses for the development of the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP). She has been president of the American Nurses Foundation and has served as the dean of the Schools of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University of Pennsylvania. |
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Richard Lilford, MD
Dr. Lilford is Professor of Clinical Research at the University of Birmingham. He is also the director of The Patient Safety Research Programme at the University of Birmingham. He was head of research for the NHS (National Health Services) Executive, West Midlands, between 1995 and 2001 and still undertakes research on behalf of the government. |
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Peter K. Lindenauer, MD, MSc
Dr. Lindenauer is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is also the medical director of Clinical Information Systems and associate medical director of the Division of Healthcare Quality at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. Dr. Lindenauer's work focuses on the role of computerized physician order entry systems to improve quality and enhance safety, the development and implementation of clinical practice guidelines, and the improvement of perioperative care. Dr. Lindenauer is a member of the technical expert panel of the Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System, serves as an advisor to the University Healthsystems Consortium, and is past chair of the Hospital Quality and Patient Safety Committee of the Society of Hospital Medicine. |
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Sylvia C.W. McKean, MD
Dr. McKean is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and medical director of the Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Hospitalist Service. Dr McKean is a scholar of the Academy at Harvard Medical School in recognition of excellence in medical education and she received the Brigham and Women's Physician Organization Physician Award in recognition by her peers in the area of clinical collaboration. She is one of the editors of The Core Competencies in Hospital Medicine: A Framework for Curriculum Development published by the Society of Hospital Medicine in the first supplement of the Journal of Hospital Medicine. In addition to implementing hospitalist programs at two hospitals, Dr. McKean is planning to apply the Core Competencies to new curriculum development in topics not traditionally covered in residency training for members of the multidisciplinary care team at Brigham and Women's Hospital. |
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Elizabeth Nilson, MD
Dr. Nilson is Assistant Professor of Public Health (Division of Medical Ethics) and Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine. She moved to Cornell from NYU Downtown Hospital where she was involved in hospital-wide performance improvement initiatives, medical ethics, and graduate medical education. Her present activities include ethics case consultations at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center, and research into the overlap of ethics consultation and quality of care. She also functions as the Associate Program Director for the Preventive Medicine program. |
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Karen L. Posner, PhD
Dr. Posner is Research Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Washington. Dr. Posner's projects combine qualitative and quantitative methods, drawing on her doctoral training in sociocultural anthropology and health services research. She is project manager of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Closed Claims Project, a longitudinal study of anesthesia malpractice and patient safety; the Pediatric Perioperative Cardiac Arrest Registry; and the Postoperative Visual Loss Registry, projects designed to collect large sets of rare complications to investigate their causes and possible preventive strategies. She has also investigated general surgery malpractice claims to identify opportunities to improve surgical patient safety. Dr. Posner has published numerous articles and chapters on patient safety, quality improvement, and medical liability and serves on the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation's Scientific Evaluation Committee and Editorial Board.
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Donald A. Redelmeier, MD
Dr. Donald Redelmeier is Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, where he has conducted clinical and health services research on a wide range of topics. His most important contributions have involved research in the field of traumatic injury and driver error (including his 1997 New England Journal of Medicine article on the association between cellular-telephone calls and motor vehicle collisions), which has led to major policy changes in the United States and other countries. Dr. Redelmeier's other research has addressed numerous practical and theoretical topics in the fields of medical decision science, clinical epidemiology, and cognitive psychology. Prominent among these articles have been analyses of the impact of "off hours" and weekend staffing on inpatient mortality, differences in hospital expenditures in the United States and Canada, and the under-treatment of patients with chronic illnesses. Dr. Redelmeier has also published engaging articles on the survival impact attributable to winning an Academy Award (published in Annals of Internal Medicine) and an analysis addressing the question "Why do cars in the next lane seem to go faster?" (published in Nature). |
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Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH
Dr. Saint is Acting Chief of Medicine at the Ann Arbor VA Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan. He received his MD from the University of California, Los Angeles and completed a medical residency and chief residency at the University of California, San Francisco's School of Medicine. He then went on to the University of Washington, where he completed a 2-year clinical research fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and concurrently completed the requirement for a Masters in Public Health. His research interests have focused on enhancing patient safety by preventing hospital-acquired device-related infections. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and co-authored three clinical manuals, including the Saint-Frances Guide to Inpatient Medicine (published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins). He is a co-editor of Quality Grand Rounds, a series of articles designed to explore a range of quality-of-care and patient safety issues published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. In addition, he has authored more than 20 articles that have appeared in the Clinical Problem-Solving section of the New England Journal of Medicine. He currently directs the VA/UM Patient Safety Enhancement Program. |
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Steven M. Selbst, MD
Dr. Selbst is a Professor of Pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University. He is vice chair for Education and director of the Pediatric Residency Program at Thomas Jefferson University and AI duPont Hospital for Children. He has written more than a dozen articles about medication errors and patient safety. His book, Preventing Malpractice Lawsuits in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, published by the American College of Emergency Physicians in 1999, explores the causes of medication errors and other errors in pediatric emergency medicine and suggests methods to decrease their frequency. |
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Aziz Sheikh, MD, BSc, MSc, MBBS, MRCP, MRCGP, DCH, DRCOG, DFFP
Dr. Sheikh is an epidemiologist and Professor of Primary Care Research & Development at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where his research has focused on medical errors, patient safety, and health system quality. He has been involved in important conceptual work outlining the workings of a national database of medical error for the British National Health Service and is focused on prescribing errors and the identification of strategies to improve safety of medication use. |
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Carl Sirio, MD
Dr. Sirio is Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Sirio is a co-developer of the APACHE (Acute Physiology, Age and Chronic Health Evaluation) system, a widely available tool designed to assess severity of illness in the critically ill, and his research has covered a variety of topics relating to the organization and delivery of health care services, performance measurement, and economic analysis.
Dr. Sirio is the sole physician representative on the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council. He also serves on the Health Policy Board as an advisor to the Governor and Secretary of Health in Pennsylvania and he chairs a Department of Health effort regarding statewide health data and quality initiatives. In addition to his patient care and teaching responsibilities, Dr. Sirio is medical director of a comprehensive program for assessing the quality and cost associated with care of the critically ill at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. |
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Patrice Spath, RHIT, BA
Ms. Spath is a health care quality specialist based in Forest Grove, Oregon. Her book, Partnering with Patients to Reduce Medical Errors (AHA Health Forum, 2004) describes how physicians and other caregivers can collaborate with patients and their family members to reduce untoward incidents. Another of her books, Error Reduction in Health Care: A Systems Approach to Improving Patient Safety (Jossey-Bass, 2000), won wide acclaim, and in the Patient Safety Improvement Guidebook (Brown-Spath & Associates, 2001), she explains how practical process improvement techniques can be used to reduce the likelihood of medical accidents. Ms. Spath writes a monthly column in Hospital Peer Review, is a regular contributor to other health care quality and patient safety improvement journals, and lectures widely on patient safety and performance improvement topics. In 2006, Ms. Spath was awarded the James A. Hamilton Book of the Year Award for her book, Leading Your Health Care Organization to Excellence (Health Administration Press, 2005). The James A. Hamilton Award is given annually to the author of a management or health care book judged outstanding by the American College of Healthcare Executive's Book of the Year Committee. |
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Sven Ternov, MD
Dr. Ternov is a researcher at the Lund Institute of Technology, where his work focuses on accident prevention in complex systems. He also works for the Swedish Civil Aviation Administration on hazard identification in air traffic control. He wrote a chapter, The human side of medical mistakes, published in Error reduction in health care, Jossey Bass, 2000.
Dr. Ternov has been working for 8 years as an investigator for the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, investigating several hundred serious cases of iatrogenic accidents. He has adopted and applied a method for accident analysis to health care and aviation (MTO analysis), originally used by the nuclear power industry. As a consultant, he has held several seminars on accident investigation for health care personnel in Denmark and Sweden. He is a qualified systems auditor and has been used as advisor to the Danish and Swedish Boards of Health and the Danish Medical Association concerning systems safety. As part of his research, he has developed a proactive method for risk analysis (DEB analysis) and applied this, among others, to an oncological ward unit at a university hospital and to a cytostatic agent manufacturing unit at a pharmacy. He has extensively lectured at international seminars on "human factors" issues in health care, pharmacy, and aviation. He has done extensive research and teaching on how to develop organizations into "learning organizations, thereby developing a good safety culture, by implementing error reporting systems." |
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Heidi Wald, MD
Dr. Wald joined the Division of Health Care Policy Research and General Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in January of 2006. Dr. Wald's interests focus on the care of the geriatric patient in the hospital setting. Her recent work has examined process-outcome relationships in postoperative care for this population. Previously, Dr. Wald was director of the Penn Hospital Care Practice at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She has published in the areas of postoperative infections, hospital safety, sentinel event reporting, and root cause analysis. |
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Saul Weingart, MD, PhD
Saul N. Weingart is Vice President for Patient Safety and Director of the Center for Patient Safety at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Weingart is a practicing internist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he was Director of Patient Safety in the Division of General Medicine. He also served as Medical Director of Patient Safety for CareGroup Healthcare System. He holds a doctorate in public policy from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and an MD degree from the University of Rochester. He completed an internal medicine residency and general medicine fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Weingart's research interests include the development of voluntary reporting systems for medical errors, patient and clinician participation in the prevention of adverse events in health care, and executive leadership in patient safety. He served as a member of the Harvard Executive Session on Medical Error and was chair and project director of the Minnesota and the Indianapolis Executive Sessions on Patient Safety. |
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Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH
Dr. Weingarten is the President, Chief Executive Officer, and co-Founder of Zynx Health. Additionally, he is a Clinical Professor of Medicine (Step II) at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Director of Health Services Research at Cedars-Sinai Health System. Dr. Weingarten was also a tenured Professor of Medicine (in residence) at the UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Weingarten has published approximately 100 articles, editorials, and book chapters on quality improvement and related topics, and serves on the editorial boards of five publications. He was a member of the Disease Management Advisory Committee of NCQA and has represented the American College of Physicians on health care issues in Washington, DC and Sacramento. Dr. Weingarten won the President's Award and the Golden Apple Teaching Award at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, as well as the Society of General Internal Medicine Award for Outstanding Educational Workshop. He has given more than 250 presentations on evidence-based medicine, computerized physician order entry, quality improvement, disease management, outcomes measurement, and related subjects throughout the United States and internationally.
Dr. Weingarten was a Quality Leader for the American College of Physician Executives and was on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Medical Quality. He currently serves on the Steering Committee for the American Heart Association "Get With The Guidelines," the HIMSS Patient Safety and Quality of Care Committee, the Quality Improvement Committee of the Board of Directors of St. Joseph's Health System (14 acute care hospitals), and as a Member of the Certification Process Advisory Group for the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT).
After graduating from the UCLA School of Medicine, Dr. Weingarten completed his internship, residency and fellowship in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He later participated in a National Center for Health Services Research Fellowship at the RAND/UCLA Center for Health Policy Study. During the fellowship, he also earned a Masters in Public Health at the UCLA School of Public Health. Dr. Weingarten has also worked as a primary care physician at Kaiser Permanente. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. |
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Mark V. Williams, MD
Dr. Williams is a Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and director of the Hospital Medicine Unit. He is also executive medical director for the Emory HCA Medical Centers. Dr. Williams established the first hospitalist program at a public hospital in 1998 and now supervises the largest academic hospitalist program in the United States. A past president of the Society of Hospital Medicine, he serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Hospital Medicine. His research focuses on the role of health literacy and quality improvement in patient care. A co-author of five chapters in the AHRQ-funded evidence report Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices, he more recently is the principal investigator on the Hospital Patient Safe-D(ischarge) project funded by AHRQ as one of its Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety. |
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Richard E. Wolfe, MD
Dr. Wolfe is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Wolfe’s research interests include ultrasound applications in emergency medicine, use of the laboratory in the evaluation of sepsis, and education and structure in postgraduate emergency medicine training. An active clinician and teacher, Dr. Wolfe was previously director of the residency in emergency medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and served as chair of the Education Committee for the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is currently a member of the Emergency Medicine Connections task force. |
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