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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
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

 


 

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

 

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