Co-Chairs & Planning Committee
Co-Chairs
| Doug Bonacum, MBA, BS Vice President Safety Management Kaiser Permanente |
Jane Englebright, PhD, RN Chief Nursing Officer Patient Safety Officer, & Vice President Clinical Services Group Hospital Corporation of America |
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| Mary Beth Navarra-Sirio, RN, MBA Vice President & Patient Safety Officer McKesson |
Barbara J. Youngberg, JD, MSW, BSN, FASHRM Visiting Professor of Law Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy Loyola University Chicago School of Law |
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Planning Committee
- Jason Adelman, MD
Patient Safety Officer, Montefiore Medical Center
- James Bagian, MD, PE
Director, Center of Health Engineering, University of Michigan
- Jeffrey B. Cooper, PhD
Executive Director, Center for Medical Simulation , Professor of Anaesthesia Harvard Medical School Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Diane D. Cousins, RPh
Health Scientist Administrator
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Scott Ellner, DO, MPH
Director of Surgical Quality, Saint Francis Hospital Medical Center
- Cathie Furman, RN, MHA
Senior Vice President, Quality and Compliance, Virginia Mason Medical Center
- Tejal Gandhi, MD, MPH
Director, Patient Safety, Partners HealthCare
- Helen Haskell
Mothers Against Medical Error, The Empowered Patient Coalition
- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Chairman of Family Medicine and Vice Chair for Research of the Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
- Gerald B. Hickson, MD, Vice Chair
Immediate Past Chair, NPSF Board of Governors, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Director, Center for Patient & Professional Advocacy, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Caroline M. Jacobs, MS.Ed., MPH
Chief Patient Safety Officer/Senior Vice President, Safety and Human Development, NYC Health & Hospitals Corporation
- Heidi King, MS, FACHE
Deputy Director, TRICARE Management Activity – DoD Patient Safety Program
- Dave Mayer, MD
Vice Chair Quality and Safety Dept Anesthesia, University of Illinois, College of Medicine
- Kathryn McDonagh, PhD, RN
Vice President, Executive Relations, Hospira Inc.
- Diane C. Pinakiewicz, MBA
President, National Patient Safety Foundation
- Ronnie P. Solomon
Executive Vice President and General Counsel, ECRI Institute
- Sam Watson
Senior Vice President for Patient Safety and Quality, Michigan Health and Hospital Association, Executive Director of the MHA Keystone Center for Patient Safety
- Saul Weingart, MD, PhD
Vice President for Patient Safety, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute





