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11 Sign up for the Free Becker's Infection Control and Clinical Quality E-Weekly at www.beckersasc.com/clinicalquality. gram and appearing on CNN and Fox News as a commentator. Dr. Makary is a researcher at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and director of the Johns Hopkins Pancreas Islet Transplantation Center. He is also a practicing surgical oncologist, specializing in laparoscopic surgery. Jennie Mayfield, BSN, MPH, CIC. President of the Association for Profes- sionals in Infection Control and Prevention. In addition to her position at APIC, Ms. Mayfield is a clinical epidemiologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in Saint Louis, where she focuses on infection prevention in cancer patients. She has worked in infection prevention for more than 26 years, 24 of which she has also been an APIC member. She is the winner of the 2005 Advanced Practice Infection Control Professional Award from the Society for Health- care Epidemiology of America and the 2007 APIC Hero of Infection Preven- tion Award. Tammi Minnier, RN, MSN, FACHE. Chief Quality Officer for UPMC (Pitts- burgh). Before her current position, Ms. Minnier was vice president of pa- tient care services and CNO at UPMC Shadyside. She is the creator of the Clinical Design Initiative at the hospital, a program to increase time clini- cians spend with patients, improve patient care and reinvest in patient care. As a result of the program, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement chose the hospital as one of three na- tionwide to participate in the Transforming Care at the Bedside Initiative. Ms. Minnier is also responsible for several other nationally recognized pa- tient safety innovations at the UPMC hospitals. She is president of UPMC subsidiary Sim Medical, a program for the creation and implementation of integrated healthcare simulation training. Elizabeth Mort, MD. Senior Vice President for Quality and Safety at Massa- chusetts General Hospital (Boston). Dr. Mort is the second person to occu- py her role at Massachusetts General. Dr. Mort is responsible for supporting and maintaining the unique leadership structure Massachusetts General has successfully instituted to prioritize patient safety. Dr. Mort researches clinical decision making and quality improvement. In addition to her role in safety and quality, Dr. Mort is also associate CMO at Massachusetts General. Frank Overdyk, MD, MSEE. Executive Director for Research at North American Partners in Anesthesia. Dr. Overdyk is an expert on inpatient harms resulting from misuse of opiates, particularly where it concerns pa- tient-controlled analgesia practices. He has conducted original research and has authored numerous articles on patient subgroups most at risk for this adverse event. He is responsible for organizing the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation conference in 2011, at which stakeholders set a "zero tolerance" consensus for opioid harms. The conference was partially responsible for The Joint Commission's 2012 sentinel alert on the subject. Dr. Overdyk is also a professor and executive director for research and quality at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine in Hempstead, N.Y. Peter Pronovost, MD. Senior Vice President for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine (Baltimore). In addition to his title of senior vice president for patient safety and quality, Dr. Pronovost is also director of the Johns Hopkins' Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. Dr. Provonost is responsible for the creation of the five-step checklist to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections and is the author of a 2010 book, "Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out." He is also an author on more than 500 articles on patient safety and safety measurement. He is 2004 recipi- ent of the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award, a 2008 Ma- cArthur fellow and was recently named a Gilman Scholar, an internal award given to the Johns Hopkins faculty or staff member promoting the highest standards in scholarship and research. Gina Pugliese, RN, MS. Vice President of the Premier Safety Institute (Charlotte, N.C.). Ms. Pugliese is vice president of the Premier Safety Insti-

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