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Robert M.
Wachter, MD, Editor
 Dr.
Wachter is Professor and Associate Chairman of Medicine at the University of
California, San Francisco. He is also chief of the medical service at UCSF
Medical Center, where he directs UCSF's hospitalist program and chairs the UCSF
Patient Safety Committee. In addition to his work on AHRQ WebM&M, he is
also lead editor of "Quality Grand Rounds," a case-based series on medical
errors and patient safety in the Annals of Internal Medicine. He was
project director and co-editor of Making Healthcare Safer: A Critical Analysis
of Patient Safety Practices, produced for the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality and published in 2001. He has been a national leader in
the hospitalist movement, having coined the term "hospitalist" in a 1996 New
England Journal of Medicine article, authored many of the key research
studies, edited the main textbook in the field (Hospital Medicine,
Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005), and served as the first elected
President of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), the fastest growing
physician professional society in the United States.
Dr. Wachter received both his undergraduate and medical degrees from the
University of Pennsylvania. He was a resident and chief resident in Internal
Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and a Robert Wood
Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford University. Prior to his present
positions, he served as the program director of the 6th International
Conference on AIDS and the director of UCSF's internal medicine residency
training program. He has published more than 100 articles and several books and
monographs in the areas of clinical outcomes, medical ethics, health services
research, medical education, and health care quality. His book (with Dr.
Shojania) on medical errors, Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's
Epidemic of Medical Mistakes, was published by Rugged Land in early
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Sumant Ranji, MD, Associate
Editor
 Dr. Ranji is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Ranji has a strong interest in quality improvement research in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. He has completed systematic reviews of quality improvement strategies for diabetes care, outpatient antibiotic use, and prevention of health care–associated infections for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and is actively involved in quality improvement (QI) efforts at UCSF Medical Center. He maintains an active clinical and teaching role, including serving as the faculty advisor for the categorical Internal Medicine Residency program journal club and attending on the ward and medical consult services at Moffitt-Long Hospital and Mount Zion Hospital.
Dr. Ranji received his medical degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed his Internal Medicine residency training at the University of Chicago and subsequently served as Chief Medical Resident at Cook County Hospital. He joined the UCSF Hospitalist Group in 2004 after completing a 2-year fellowship in Hospital Medicine and Clinical Research at UCSF.
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Niraj L.
Sehgal, MD, MPH, Associate Editor
 Dr. Sehgal is Assistant Professor of Medicine at
the University of California, San Francisco, where he spends approximately half
his time as a clinical-educator on the inpatient medical service and the rest
as an investigator with interests in patient safety and quality measurement.
Dr. Sehgal sits on local patient safety committees and carries a strong
interest in developing model units to test the most effective strategies to
improve both the quality and safety of care in hospitalized patients. He
co-authored a chapter on quality measurement in the leading textbook on Hospital
Medicine, and he is working to improve the collaboration among
physicians with nurses, pharmacists, and administrators in designing patient
safety interventions.
Dr. Sehgal received his medical degree from Rush University in Chicago. He
completed a residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford
University Hospital and Clinics before moving on to complete a fellowship at
the Stanford Prevention Research Center studying prevention outcomes. During
his fellowship, he earned a Masters in Public Health at the University of
California, Berkeley. |
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Bradley
Sharpe, MD, Associate Editor
 Dr. Sharpe is an Assistant Clinical Professor of
Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and the assistant
chief of the Medical Service at Moffitt-Long Hospital. In this position, Dr.
Sharpe is active in hospital quality improvement, including JCAHO Core Measures
Performance, discharge coordination, and patient flow. He serves on the
Physician Advisory Group, the primary physician group acting to implement
computerized physician order entry (CPOE) at Moffitt-Long Hospital. Dr. Sharpe
also acts as the site director at Moffitt-Long Hospital in the Internal
Medicine Residency. In this role, he focuses on resident education and quality
of life, including implementation of ACGME duty hours requirements and an
inpatient evidence-based medicine (EBM) curriculum.
Dr. Sharpe graduated from Harvard Medical School and was a categorical resident
and chief resident at UCSF. |
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Brian Alldredge,
PharmD, Associate Editor, Clinical Pharmacy
 Dr. Alldredge is
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Clinical Pharmacy in the
School of Pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He is
also Clinical Professor of Neurology in the UCSF School of Medicine. Dr.
Alldredge's clinical practice and research interests have focused on neurology
and epilepsy since 1985. He serves as a reviewer for journals in pharmacy,
neurology and medicine, and he is an Assistant Editor of Applied Therapeutics:
The Clinical Use of Drugs. He has also participated on invited review
groups for the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and the National
Institutes for Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
Dr. Alldredge's research focuses on the chronic treatment of epilepsy with
antiepileptic drugs, pharmacogenomics, status epilepticus, and the
identification and management of persons with seizures in the out-of-hospital
and pre-hospital settings. The latter topic was recently studied under a
National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant with a UCSF-based multidisciplinary
team of investigators, and the results were published in The New England Journal
of Medicine. (Photo by Kaz Tsuruta.) |
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Mary A. Blegen,
PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Editor, Nursing
 Dr. Blegen is a Professor in the Department of
Community Health Systems and Director of the Center for Patient Safety in the School of Nursing at
the University of California, San Francisco. She holds a BSN from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD,
and a master’s in Nursing and a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Iowa. Dr. Blegen serves as
Associate Editor for Nursing Research and is a member of the Expert Panel on Quality Health Care for the
American Academy of Nursing and the Governance and Advisory Council for the California Nursing Outcomes
Coalition. She is Co-Principal Investigator on a project addressing patient safety in three San Francisco
Bay hospitals funded by the Gordan and Betty Moore foundation. Dr. Blegen’s currently active research activities
include completion of three national studies: Nurse Staffing and the Quality of Patient Care [funded by National
Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)]; assessment of the validity of Quality Indicators in Long Term Care [by
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)], and Nurses’ Workforce Conditions: Effects on Medication
Safety (funded by AHRQ). She is beginning a new research project in Quality Care in Acute Inpatient Units,
funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. |
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Kaveh
G. Shojania, MD, Consulting Editor
 Dr. Shojania is Assistant Professor of Medicine
at the University of Ottawa and Scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Program
at the Ottawa Health Research Institute, where he holds a Canada Research Chair
in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement. Previously Dr. Shojania was
Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco
(UCSF), where he was one of the founding editors of AHRQ WebM&M. He
was also lead editor (and authored six chapters) of Making Healthcare Safer,
the evidence report produced for AHRQ following the publication of the
Institute of Medicine Report, To Err Is Human.
While at UCSF, Dr. Shojania helped developed the case-based series "Quality
Grand Rounds" in the Annals of Internal Medicine and co-authored (with
Robert M. Wachter, MD) a book for a general audience on medical error and
patient safety.
Dr. Shojania has published several papers on the topic of efficient strategies
for searching the health care literature. The National Library of Medicine used
one of these strategies as the basis for the systematic review filter in the
Clinical Queries section of PubMed. In addition, Dr. Shojania sits on several
local and national committees focusing on patient safety, as well the editorial
boards for the Joint Commission Journal for Quality and Safety and the
forthcoming Journal of Patient Safety.
Dr. Shojania received his medical degree from the University of Manitoba and
his residency training at Harvard’s Brigham and Women's Hospital. He then
completed a hospital medicine fellowship at UCSF and subsequently joined the
faculty for three years before returning to Canada.
In April 2002, he received the Young Investigator Award from the Society for
Hospital Medicine. In October 2004, he shared with Dr. Robert Wachter one of
the John M. Eisenberg Awards in Patient Safety from the National Quality Forum
and the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. |
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| Erin Hartman,
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| Vida Lynum, Project Analyst |
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