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9 Sign up for the Free Becker's Clinical Quality & Infection Control E-Weekly at www.beckersasc.com/clinicalquality. Clinical Transformation at Catholic Health Partners. He served on the National Quality Forum's Hospital Measure Workshop that recommended the NQF's initial set of National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Hospital Care, co-chaired the NQF's Consensus Standards Maintenance Committee for Pulmonary Measures and was a member of NQF's Consensus Standards Maintenance Methods Committee. He previously served as director of clinical analytics at Charlotte, N.C.-based Premier. Leigh S. Hamby, MD, MHA. CMO and Chief Quality Officer of Piedmont Healthcare (Atlanta). Dr. Hamby serves as CMO and chief quality officer of Piedmont Healthcare. He previously served as a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award examiner for several years and as director of healthcare quality and evaluation at the Veterans Affairs Atlanta Network. In addition, Dr. Hamby is an associate professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, where he teaches quality improvement strategies. Michael Henderson, MD. Chief Quality Officer of Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Henderson is chief quality officer of Cleveland Clinic and founder and chairman of the system's Quality and Patient Safety Institute. The institute coordinates quality, regulatory and risk management activities across the system. He previously served as chair of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program advisory board. Brent C. James, MD, MStat. Chief Quality Officer and Executive Director of the Institute for Health Care Delivery Research at Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City). Dr. James serves as chief quality officer and executive director of the Institute for Health Care Delivery Research at Intermountain Healthcare. He has trained more than 3,500 healthcare professionals in clinical management methods through the Intermountain Advanced Training Program in Clinical Practice Improvement. He previously served as assistant professor in the department of biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. School Executive Session on Medical Error. Dr. Leape won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices in 2001 and the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award in 2004. Jennie Mayfield, BSN, MPH, CIC. Clinical Epidemiologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis). Ms. Mayfield is a clinical epidemiologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and president-elect of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. She has worked in infection prevention for more than 26 years and has been a member of APIC for 24 years. She won the Advanced Practice Infection Control Professional Award from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America in 2005 and the APIC Hero of Infection Prevention Award in 2007. Gregg Meyer, MD, MSc. Executive Vice President for Population Health and Chief Clinical Office at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (Lebanon, N.H.). Dr. Meyer became Dartmouth-Hitchcock's first executive vice president for population health and chief clinical officer in May 2012. In this role, he oversees clinical operations across the health system. He is also senior associate dean for clinical affairs and the first Paul B. Batalden Chair in Health Care Leadership Improvement at the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Dr. Meyer previously served as senior vice president of the Edward P. Lawrence Center for Quality and Safety at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Julianne M. Morath, RN, MS. Senior Vice President of Patient Safety and Quality at the California Hospital Association and CEO of the California Hospital Quality Institute (Sacramento). Ms. Morath is senior vice president of patient safety and quality at the California Hospital Association and CEO of the California Hospital Quality Institute. She previously served as chief quality and patient safety officer of Vanderbilt Gary S. Kaplan, MD, FACP, FACMPE, FACPE. Chairman and CEO of Virginia Mason Health System (Seattle). Dr. Kaplan has served as chairman and CEO of Seattle-based Virginia Mason Health System since 2000, during which he led implementation of the Virginia Mason Production System to improve efficiencies, quality and safety. He is also a clinical professor at the University of Washington and has served on the boards of numerous organizations, including the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Dr. Kaplan won the 2009 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award. Edward Kelley, MD, PhD. Coordinator and Head of Strategic Programmes of Patient Safety at the World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland). Dr. Kelley is coordinator and head of Strategic Programmes of Patient Safety at the World Health Organization, where he leads a global healthcare safety initiative. He previously served as director of the first U.S. National Healthcare Reports for HHS in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, where he examined healthcare quality and disparities. He was also director of the Health Care Quality Improvement Project of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. Donald Kennerly, MD, PhD. Vice President and Associate Chief Quality Officer of Baylor Health Care System (Dallas). Dr. Kennerly serves as vice president and associate chief quality safety officer of Baylor Health Care System. He began at Baylor as medical director of the Center for Quality and Care at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas in 1999 and became Baylor University Medical Center's first patient safety officer in 2002. Dr. Kennerly also helped develop Baylor's Office of Patient Safety. Lucian Leape, MD. Chairman of the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation (Boston). Dr. Leape is chairman of the eponymous institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation and an adjunct professor of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Leape is one of the founders of NPSF, the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Error and the Har ard Kennedy v Blood Borne Pathogens 1-800-932-7472 www.imageerst.com Compliant

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