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12 50 experts leading the field of patient safety | 2018 By Kelly Gooch, Morgan Haefner, Megan Knowles, Anuja Vaidya and Leo Vartorella Becker's Hospital Review is pleased to release the 2018 edition of the "50 experts leading the field of patient safety" list. e professionals included on this list are prominent advocates for patient safety. Individuals featured here are clinicians, advocacy group leaders, professors, research- ers, administrators and healthcare provid- ers. Many honorees have received industry awards, published articles and led initiatives to facilitate the reduction of patient harm in the healthcare setting. e Becker's Hospital Review editorial team selected patient safety leaders for inclusion on the list based on nominations, current leader- ship positions and an examination of awards, publications and various achievements in the field of patient safety. Nominations were considered during the selection process. Note: Leaders are presented in alphabetical order and could not pay for inclusion. Jason Adelman, MD. Chief Patient Safety Officer, Associate Chief Quality Officer and Director of Patient Safety Research at NewYo- rk-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia Uni- versity Medical Center (New York City). In his role as director of Columbia University's Patient Safety Research Program, Dr. Adelman has led multiple research projects centered on health IT safety, medication safety and general patient safety. Dr. Adelman has been awarded the Institute for Safe Medication Practice's Cheers Award for prevention of medication errors and the Lorraine Tregde Patient Safety Leadership Award for improving patient safety. Dr. Adelman began his career as a hospitalist at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, received the Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship and was named a senior fellow of the Health Research and Educational Trust. David W. Baker, MD. Executive Vice Presi- dent, Division of Healthcare Quality Evalu- ation at e Joint Commission (Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.). Dr. Baker is responsible for e Joint Commission's activities associated with the development, testing and implementation of evidence-based standards, survey methods, national patient safety goals and performance measures across all the organization's accredi- tation and certification programs. Before join- ing e Joint Commission, Dr. Baker served as chief of the division of general internal medicine and geriatrics at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Evanston, Ill.-based North- western University. He established the hospital medicine program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and created and directed Northwest- ern's first practice-based research network. Dr. Baker received his medical degree from the UC Los Angeles School of Medicine and his master's degree of public health from the UCLA School of Public Health. David J. Ballard, MD, PhD. Chief Quality Officer of Baylor Scott & White Health (Dallas) and President of the STEEEP Global Institute (Dallas). Before Baylor Health Care merged with Scott & White in 2013, Dr. Ballard was appointed Baylor Health Care System's first chief quality officer in 1999. Previously, Dr. Ballard served on the faculties at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, and Emory University School of Medicine and the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University in Atlanta. Dr. Ballard won the John M. Eisen- berg Article-of-the-Year Award in 2012 from the journal Health Services Research and is the author of Achieving STEEEP Health Care and e Guide to Achieving STEEEP Health Care. Dr. Ballard received his medical degree, PhD and master's of public health from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Carol Barsky, MD. Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer of Hackensack (N.J.) Meridian Health. Dr. Barsky began her career as a clinician educator before transition- ing to clinical operations, going on to serve as medical director and vice chair of New York City-based Mount Sinai Medical Center, where she led the hospital's emergency response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Before joining Hackensack Meridian Health, Dr. Barsky served as an independent consultant for quality and process improvement at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital. She received her medical degree from the Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic School of Medicine. David Westfall Bates, MD. Chief Innovation Officer of Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston) and Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis for Partners HealthCare (Boston). In addition to his role at the Jour- nal of Patient Safety, Dr. Bates serves as chief innovation officer at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital and medical director of clinical and quality analysis for Partners Health- Care, also in Boston. Dr. Bates is on the faculties of Boston-based Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, where he co-directs the program in clinical effectiveness. He received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore. Leah Binder. President and CEO of Leapfrog Group (Washington, D.C.). Under Ms. Bind- er's leadership, the Leapfrog Group launched Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, which use national performance measures to assign letter grades to over 2,000 hospitals across the country. She has instituted major changes to the annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey. Ms. Binder serves on the boards of the Institute of Medi- cine Collaboration on Patient Engagement; the Health Care Financial Management Associa- tion Leadership Advisory Committee; PCORI Health Systems Advisory Panel, AARP's Cham- pions for Nursing Strategic Advisory Council; and the National Priorities Partnership Board. Before joining Leapfrog, Ms. Binder served as vice president at Farmington, Maine-based Franklin Community Health Network. She earned one master's degree from University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Commu- nication and another from the university's Fels Institute of Government. Pascale Carayon, PhD. Procter & Gamble Bascom Professor in Total Quality, Depart- ment of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. In ad- dition to her faculty positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Carayon is a mem- ber of the university's Center for Demography of Health and Aging, Consortium for Global E-Commerce and the Academic Council of the Center for Patient Partnerships of the law school. Dr. Carayon received her PhD from UW-Madison and has served as a professor at Ecole des Mines de Nancy in France. She has received the College of Engineering Ragnar E. Onstad Service to Society Award and the International Ergonomics Association's Trien- nial Distinguished Service Award. Mark R. Chassin, MD. President and CEO of e Joint Commission (Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.). In addition to overseeing e Joint Com- mission's standards-setting and accrediting re- sponsibilities, Dr. Chassin is president of e Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare, which works with providers across the country to address safety and quality is- sues such as surgical site infections, wrong site surgeries and hand-off communications. e center shares its solutions with over 20,000 healthcare organizations it accredits. Before joining e Joint Commission, Dr. Chassin founded the Department of Health Policy at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City and was commissioner of the New York State Department of Health. Dr. Chassin received his medical degree from Boston-based Har- vard Medical School, his master's degree in