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8 Sign up for the Free Becker's Clinical Quality & Infection Control E-Weekly at www.beckersasc.com/clinicalquality. of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices and vice chair of the patient safety advisory group for The Joint Commission. He is also editor of the textbook "Medication Errors" and co-editor of the ISMP "Medication Safety Alert!" publications. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2005. as pediatric anesthesiologist-in-chief and executive physician of pediatric quality and safety at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn., and vice chair for pediatric anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center department of anesthesiology. Robert Connors, MD. President of Helen DeVos Children's Hospital (Grand Rapids, Mich.). Dr. Connors, a practicing pediatric surgeon, is president of Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, part of Grand Rapidsbased Spectrum Health. Before joining the system in 2005, he established Pediatric Surgeons of West Michigan, a group of pediatric surgeons, in 1990. In 2011, he received the National Patient Safety Foundation Chairman's Award in recognition of his emerging leadership in patient safety. Scott J. Ellner, DO, MPH. Vice Chairman of Surgery and Director of Surgical Quality at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center (Hartford, Conn.). Dr. Ellner is vice chairman of surgery and director of surgical quality at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center. He also serves as an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Connecticut Medical School. He was an American Hospital Association-National Patient Safety Foundation Patient Safety Leadership Fellow for 2010 to 2011, and researches culture changes in surgical settings to improve patient outcomes. Dr. Ellner is also founder and past chair of the Connecticut Surgical Quality Collaborative, which aims to improve the quality of surgical care. William A. Conway, MD. Executive Vice President and Chief Quality Officer of Henry Ford Health System and CEO of  Henry Ford Medical Group (Detroit). Dr. Conway serves as executive vice president and chief quality officer of Henry Ford Health System as well as CEO of Henry Ford Medical Group, which he joined as a senior staff physician in 1977. He played an integral role in the health system's "No Harm Campaign," which received the 2011 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for innovation in patient safety and quality at the local level. Dr. Conway received the Keystone Center Patient Safety and Quality Leadership Award from the Michigan Health and Hospital Association in 2006. Jeffrey B. Cooper, PhD. Executive Vice President of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (Indianapolis). In addition to being co-founder and executive vice president of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, Dr. Cooper is a professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and founder and executive director of the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston. Dr. Cooper received the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for lifetime achievement in 2003. In 2009, the department of anesthesia, critical care and pain medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston created the Jeffrey B. Cooper Patient Safety award in his honor. Ilene Corina. President of PULSE of New York (Wantagh). Ms. Corina is founder and president of PULSE of New York, a patient safety advocacy group. She is a member of the board of governors of the National Patient Safety Foundation and a member of the board of commissioners of The Joint Commission. In 2010 Ms. Corina won the MITSS HOPE award, which recognizes individuals and organizations that demonstrate the mission of Medically Induced Trauma Support Services: "Supporting Healing and Restoring Hope to patients, families and clinicians impacted by adverse medical events."  Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, MBA. Former President and CEO of the National Quality Forum (Washington, D.C.). Dr. Corrigan was appointed a member of The Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation in July 2012 after retiring as president and CEO of the National Quality Forum. She led NQF since 2006, helping expand its standard-setting program for performance measures. Before that role, she served as senior board director at the Institute of Medicine, where she provided leadership in its pivotal 1999 report, "To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System." Charles Denham, MD. Chairman of Texas Medical Institute of Technology (Austin). Dr. Denham is chairman of the Texas Medical Institute of Technology, which he founded to drive adoption of healthcare performance improvement solutions. He is also CEO and founder of HCC Corp., a business development accelerator. In addition, Dr. Denham is editor-in-chief of Journal of Patient Safety and co-founder of the Global Patient Safety Forum. Jay Deshpande, MD, MPH. Senior Vice President, Chief Quality Officer and Associate Medical Director of Arkansas Children's Hospital (Little Rock). Dr. Deshpande was named senior vice president, chief quality officer and associate medical director of Arkansas Children's Hospital in 2010. He is also a professor of pediatrics and anesthesiology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He previously served Tejal K. Gandhi, MD, MPH. Chief Quality and Safety Officer of Partners HealthCare (Boston). Dr. Gandhi, a board-certified internist, is chief quality and safety officer of Partners HealthCare and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. In addition, she is chair of Partners HealthCare's High Performance Medicine initiative on patient safety and fellowship director of Harvard Medical School's Fellowship in Patient Safety and Quality. She previously served as executive director of quality and safety at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Atul Gawande, MD, MPH. Surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston). Dr. Gawande is a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health and a lead advisor for the World Health Organization's Safe Surgery Saves Lives program. Dr. Gawande has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1998, and he has published several influential books on patient safety, including "Complications," "Better" and "The Checklist Manifesto," which revealed the ability of surgical checklists to reduce patient harm. Vicki Good, RN, MSN, CENP. Administrative Director of Patient Safety at CoxHealth (Springfield, Mo.). In addition to serving as administrative director of patient safety at CoxHealth, Ms. Good is president-elect of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses for 2012 to 2013. She previously served in management roles in critical care, patient safety and education at Baylor Health Care System in Dallas and Baylor All Saints Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas. She is a member of the American Organization of Nurse Executives, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and the American Society of Professionals in Patient Safety. Patricia S. Grant, RN, BSN, MS, CIC. Director of Infection Prevention and Quality at Methodist Hospital for Surgery (Addison, Texas). Ms. Grant is director of infection prevention and quality at Methodist Hospital for Surgery and president of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. She has served as an infection preventionist for 20 years in different hospitals and has been actively involved in patient safety organizations. She is a past president of the Texas Society of Infection Control and Prevention and received an APIC Leadership award in 2011. Linda Groah, RN, MSN, CNOR, CNAA, FAAN. Executive Director and CEO of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (Denver). Ms. Groah has served as executive director and CEO of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses since March 2007. She previously served as COO and nurse executive at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in San Francisco, where she piloted patient safety initiatives such as administration walking rounds and introduced the concept of a "just" culture. Ms. Groah is the immediate past treasurer for the Nursing Organization Alliance and the vice chair of the Nursing Alliance for Quality Care. Stephen R. Grossbart, PhD. Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer of the Center for Patient Safety and Clinical Transformation at Catholic Health Partners (Cincinnati). Dr. Grossbart is senior vice president and chief quality officer of the Center for Patient Safety and

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