Issue link: https://beckershealthcare.uberflip.com/i/1013333
15 and Optimal Patient Care. As director of the American College of Surgeons' Division of Research and Optimal Patient Care, Dr. Ko oversees all quality improvement programs, in- cluding the American College of Surgeons Na- tional Surgical Quality Improvement Program. A colorectal cancer specialist, he is the Robert and Kelly Day Professor of Surgical Outcomes at UCLA. He led the development of the Center for Surgical Outcomes and Quality at UCLA, which focuses on improving the delivery of surgery through the entire episode of care. Stephen Lawless, MD. Senior Vice Presi- dent and Chief Clinical Officer at Nemours Children's Health System (Jacksonville, Fla.). In addition to managing quality and safety across Nemours, which cares for 250,000 patients each year, Dr. Lawless is a professor of pediatrics at Philadelphia-based omas Jefferson University. e board-cer- tified pediatric physician frequently speaks to audiences across the country on improving quality and safety in medical care, with a particular focus on how EMRs affect care quality. Dr. Lawless is also a fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. Helen Macfie, PharmD. Chief Transforma- tion Officer of MemorialCare (Fountain Val- ley, Calif.). With over 20 years of experience in organizational improvement at Memorial- Care and beyond, Dr. Macfie is responsible for quality and patient safety improvement ini- tiatives across the five-hospital health system, which has over 200 care sites. She also teaches for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Safety Executive and Leading Population Health courses and serves on e Joint Com- mission Pioneers in Quality Advisory Panel. Gerald Maccioli, MD. Chief Quality Of- ficer for Envision Healthcare (Nashville, Tenn.) and Medical Director of Envision Healthcare Center for Quality and Patient Safety. As the chief quality officer for Envision Healthcare, Dr. Maccioli has bolstered the physician-led organization's quality improve- ment reporting initiatives by creating a ded- icated quality organization of more than 200 individuals. He is responsible for an operating expenses budget of approximately $15 million and capital expenditure budget of about $9 million. Dr. Maccioli has served as the chair of the American Medical Association Commit- tee of Innovators and director of quality for American Anesthesiology of North Carolina. Julie Marhalik-Helms, BSN, RN. Vice President of Quality Improvement of North American Partners in Anesthesia (Melville, N.Y.). For the majority of her career, Ms. Marhalik-Helms has cultivated initiatives to improve care quality and patient safety. As NAPA's vice president of quality improvement, she oversees the anesthesia and managed care provider's patient safety and quality program at more than 200 clinical sites. Additionally, Ms. Marhalik-Helms works to enhance the patient experience through NAPA's Service Experience program and was nominated as the vice chair for the Anesthesia Business Group Qualified Clinical Data Registry. Ken Maxik. Director of Patient Safety and Compliance of CompleteRx (Houston). With more than 20 years of experience in pharmacy operations and management, Mr. Maxik has served as the director of patient safety and compliance at CompleteRx, a hospital phar- macy management and patient care company, for more than a decade. Mr. Maxik is respon- sible for the patient safety division at Com- pleteRx and creates a proprietary 250-point patient safety checklist for clients each year to improve patient outcomes at the facility level. Additionally, Mr. Maxik served as president of the Kentucky Association for Healthcare Quality for the 2014-15 term. David Mayer, MD. Vice President of Quality and Safety at MedStar Health (Columbia, Md.). Before beginning his role as vice presi- dent of quality and safety at MedStar Health, Dr. Mayer held various leadership roles at Chicago-based University of Illinois Medical Center, including CMO for Quality and Safety Graduate Medical Education and director of the UIC Masters of Science Patient Safety Leadership Program. At MedStar Health, Dr. Mayer oversees the infrastructure for clinical quality and its operational efficiency for each of MedStar's entities. Additionally, he designs and directs activity for patient safety and risk reduction programs across the system. Lisa McGiffert. Director of Consumers Union's Safe Patient Project. Ms. McGiffert has led Consumers Union advocacy efforts in healthcare access, hospital regulation and care quality mea- surements since joining the nonprofit in 1991. In her leadership role, Ms. McGiffert collaborates with patients who have experienced medical harm to establish a national consumer activist network aiming to make healthcare safer. Ms. McGiffert is also a leading voice for patient safety issues at conferences across the country and serves on the National Quality Forum Patient Safety Committee. James Merlino, MD. President and CMO of Strategic Consulting for Press Ganey (South Bend, Ind.). Prior to joining Press Ganey in 2015, Dr. Merlino served as the chief experi- ence officer of Cleveland Clinic, as well as a practicing staff colorectal surgeon. Previously, during his time practicing at Cleveland-based MetroHealth, Dr. Merlino implemented care paths for managing complex colorectal sur- gery patients and advocated for implementing the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. Dr. Merlino is also the founder and current presi- dent of the Association for Patient Experience. Rustin Morse, MD. Senior Vice President of Quality and Safety and Chief Quality Officer at Children's Health (Dallas). In his role at Children's Health, a three-hospital pediatric health system, Dr. Morse works to improve patient care quality and safety for both patients and staff. Dr. Morse continues to practice pediatric emergency medicine and participates in research that evaluates how to measure and improve quality. In 2016, Chil- dren's Health reduced serious safety events by 50 percent under Dr. Morse's leadership. Elizabeth A. Mort, MD. Senior Vice President for Quality and Safety and Chief Quality Officer of Massachusetts General Hospital/Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (Boston). In addition to over- seeing quality and safety for one of the coun- try's top-ranked hospitals, Dr. Mort is a pri- mary care physician with interests in women's health, prevention and disease management. She is board-certified in internal medicine and is nationally recognized for her efforts in mea- suring and improving quality. Dr. Mort is also an assistant professor at Boston-based Harvard Medical School's Department of Medicine and Department of Health Care Policy. Brigitta Mueller, MD. Vice President of Medical Affairs and Chief Patient Safety Officer of Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital (St. Petersburg, Fla.). Dr. Muel- ler joined All Children's Hospital in 2013, where she provides oversight and works with other hospital leaders, physicians and staff on developing numerous quality and patient safety initiatives. Additionally, Dr. Mueller is a professor of pediatrics in hematology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. She is also the interim director of the Johns Hopkins All Children's Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute and has published over 84 peer-reviewed scientific articles and 30 book chapters. David Nash, MD. Dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health (Philadel- phia). Dr. Nash became the founding dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health in 2008 and has spent more than 25 years as a omas Jefferson University faculty member. He has governance responsibilities in public and private sector organizations and serves on the National Quality Forum's task force on improving population health. He is a founding member of the American Association of Medical Colleges IQ Steering Committee and has authored and edited several publications related to population health and patient safety, including Demand Better!: Revive Our Broken Healthcare System and Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness.