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12 Sign up for the Free Becker's Infection Control and Clinical Quality E-Weekly at www.beckersasc.com/clinicalquality. tute, which is part of the Premier healthcare alliance. She also edits its online newsletter, SafetyShare and curates web content for the PSI. She is a senior associate editor for the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. She is an associate faculty member at Rush University College of Nursing in Chicago and is adjunct faculty in the division of epidemiology and biostatis- tics for the University of Illinois School of Public Health in Chicago. Ruth Ragusa, RN. Vice President of Organizational Effectiveness at South Nassau Communities Hospital (Oceanside, N.Y.). Ms. Ragusa leads SNCH in all quality, safety, improvement and risk management initiatives. She joined SNCH in 2001 as vice president of performance improvement. Her more than 20 years of healthcare administration experience have been fo- cused in nursing quality, performance management and organizational ef- fectiveness. Ms. Ragusa is a member of the Association of Healthcare Quality Professionals and American College of Healthcare Executives. Under Ms. Ra- gusa's leadership, the past year SNCH has earned American Nurses Creden- tialing Center's Magnet recognition, recognition by The Joint Commission for exemplary performance in using evidence-based clinical and a 5-star rat- ing from Healthgrades, among other distinctions. Charles Riccobono, MD. Vice President and Chief Quality & Patient Safety Officer at Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center. Dr. Charles Ricco- bono is also the creator and chairman of the Performance Improvement De- partment at HackensackUMC. Under his leadership, the hospital implement- ed the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Pursuing Perfection Initiative and was the national leader in quality results in the CMS Demonstration. He also led the hospital in joining a collaborative with Harvard Business School in Boston and the IHI Cost & Quality initiative to improve the value of care at HackensackUMC. Dr. Riccobono is a member of the Quality Leadership Network and a charter member of the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program collaborative network. Dr. Ric- cobono is a board-certified gastroenterologist, past division chief of gastro- enterology and vice chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at HackensackUMC. He is a clinical associate professor of medicine at Rutgers Medical School in New Jersey. Eric Schneider, MD, Editor of the International Journal of Quality in Healthcare. In addition to his role as editor of the International Journal of Quality in Healthcare, a peer-reviewed journal on research related to quality outcomes for patient populations, Dr. Schneider is an associate professor of medicine in the department of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Bos- ton and associate physician in the division of general medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Dr. Schneider's research focuses on mea- surements in quality in safety as well as healthcare delivery and preventative services. He teaches quality improvement in healthcare at the Harvard School of Public Health and has collaborated on quality measures with the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, Centers for Disease Control and Pre- vention and the National Committee for Quality Assurance, among other organizations. Susan E. Sheridan, MBA, MIM. Director of Patient Engagement at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Ms. Sheridan is respon- sible for engaging patients to provide input on PCORI research. She is also co-founder and past president of Consumers Advancing Patient Safety, an organization to improve communication among patients and providers for safety. She served in this capacity between 2003 and 2010. She is also a past leader of the World Health Organization's Patient Safety Initiative, which she spearheaded from 2004 to 2011. Kaveh G. Shojania, MD. Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Quality & Safety. Dr. Shojania is a scientist at the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto, Can- ada. Among his other appointments, he is director for the Centre for Patient Safety at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on patient safety, quality improvement and knowledge transfer and evidence synthesis. He has written a book on patient safety, "Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind Amer- ica's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes" and led the production of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality report Making Healthcare Safer, which synthesized evidence supporting a large number of patient safety prac- tices. Dr. Shojania was made editor of BJM Quality & Safety in 2011. Robert K. Stoelting, MD. President of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foun- dation. Before becoming full-time president of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation in 2003, Dr. Stoelting was a professor and chair of the depart- ment of anesthesia at the Indiana University School of Medicine in India- napolis, where he had been on the faculty since 1970. The APSF is devoted to research, education and idea exchanges surrounding patient safety during anesthesia care. The organization issues grants to applicants seeking to per- form research on topics at the intersection of anesthesia and patient safety. Andrew J. Sussman, MD, MBA. President of MinuteClinic and Senior Vice President and Associate CMO at CVS Caremark. Dr. Sussman heads the second largest retail pharmacy chain in the U.S. Under his leadership, MinuteClinic has expanded its clinical services and affiliated with 25 medi- cal centers to improve patients' access to medical treatment. In addition, MinuteClinic became the first retail pharmacy chain to implement the "Ask Me 3" health literacy program for patients in collaboration with the National Patient Safety Foundation. Prior to his post at MinuteClinic, Dr. Sussman was executive vice president and COO of UMass Memorial Medical Center and an associate professor of medicine at the UMass Medical School, both in Worcester, Mass. He is a member of the board of the National Patient Safety Foundation. Gail L. Warden, MHA. President Emeritus of Henry Ford Health System (Detroit) and Professor at University of Michigan School of Public Health (Ann Arbor). Mr. Warden is an individual winner of a 2013 Eisenberg Award for lifetime achievement in patient safety and quality of care. Mr. Warden served as president and CEO of Henry Ford Health System from 1988 to 2003. Before that, he served in a variety of executive positions at other hospitals and health systems. Mr. Warden currently chairs the Institute of Medicine's Com- mittee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System. He also chairs the board of the National Quality Forum, the Healthcare Re- search and Development Institute and the National Center for Healthcare Leadership. He is a member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Board of Trustees, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Board and the RAND Health Board of Advisors. He is director emeritus and past chairman of the board of the National Committee on Quality Assurance. Janet Woodcock, MD. Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Re- search. Dr. Woodcock leads the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration. The center evaluates the safety of over- the-counter and prescription drugs, provides healthcare professionals with information for drug use, ensures drug safety and polices drug quality. Dr. Woodcock is responsible for the introduction of risk management as an ap- proach to drug safety in 2000. Recently, she launched the "Safety First" and "Safe Use" initiatives to improve medication management both in and out of the FDA. Before her current position, she served as CDA's deputy commis- sioner and CMO. She has been at the FDA since 1986. Ronald Wyatt, MD, MHA. Medical Director of the Division of Healthcare Improvement at The Joint Commission (Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.). Dr. Wyatt is the lead resource on patient safety for The Joint Commission, where he works to improve quality and patient safety internally, externally and through legislation. Dr. Wyatt has been a part of the development of National Patient Safety Goals, and he oversees management of the Joint Commission's senti- nel event database. He has previously served as director of the Patient Safety Analysis Center at the Department of Defense, creating the DoD Patient Safety Registries for tracking adverse events. He is a board-certified internist. Joan Wynn, PhD. Chief Quality and Safety Officer for Vidant Health (Greenville, N.C.). Dr. Wynn led Vidant Health to a local-level 2013 Eisen- berg award from The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum, a national award for innovations in patient safety and quality of care. Dr. Wynn assumed her position in 2007 after serving as vice president for corporate quality at Vidant. She has been at the system since 1990, starting as a clinical nurse specialist. She joined UHS in 2004 as an administrator of corporate quality. n