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Becker's Infection Control and Clinical Quality May 2014 Issue

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8 Sign up for the Free Becker's Infection Control and Clinical Quality E-Weekly at www.beckersasc.com/clinicalquality. quality, efficiency and safety. He is associate editor of the Journal for Patient Safety. Dr. Bates is also a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston and co-directs the Program for Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is director of the BWH Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice and is external program lead for research for the World Health Organization's Global Alliance for Patient Safety. Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP. Former CMS Administrator (Baltimore). Dr. Berwick was CMS administrator from July 2010 to December 2011, dur- ing which time he spearheaded the launch of the patient safety initiative, Partnership for Patients. He is a co-founder and past president of the In- stitute for Healthcare Improvement, an organization devoted to reducing patient harm and improving quality of care. Dr. Berwick announced his can- didacy for Governor of Massachusetts in 2013, with elections for the office held November 2014. Karl Bilimoria, MD, MS. Director of Surgical Outcomes and Quality Im- provement Center at Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago). Dr. Bili- moria is an assistant professor with joint appointments in the department of surgery, Institute for Healthcare Studies and Department of Medicine and the Social Sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. He researches how to improve oncological and surgi- cal care for patients. He collaborates extensively with the American College of Surgeons, for which he is a faculty scholar, on the ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. Dr. Bilimoria is the program's champion at Northwestern and is heavily involved in process and quality improvement at the hospital. He is a surgical oncologist. Leah F. Binder, MA, MGA. CEO of The Leapfrog Group (Washington, D.C.). Ms. Binder has been president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, a national organization focused on helping healthcare achieve the triple aim, since 2008. Leapfrog awards patient safety scores to individual hospitals based on the survey data it collects. Before joining Leapfrog, Ms. Binder was vice president of Farmington, Maine-based Franklin Community Health Network. She au- thors columns on patient safety and healthcare improvement that have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post and Forbes, among other publications. Maureen Bisognano, RN. President and CEO of the Institute for Health- care Improvement (Cambridge, Mass.). Before taking her current role at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Ms. Bisognano served as the organi- zation's president and COO for 15 years. Ms. Bisognano is an elected mem- ber of the Institute of Medicine and was appointed to The Commonwealth Fund's Commission on a High Performance Health System. She serves on the boards of the Commonwealth Fund, ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value and Mayo Clinic Health System — Eau Claire. Doug Bonacum. Vice President of Quality, Safety and Resource Manage- ment at Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.). Mr. Bonacum has been vice president of quality, safety and resource management at Kaiser Permanente since 1994. He is a board member of the National Patient Safety Foundation and faculty for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Patient Safety Exec- utive Program. He is also an advisor to ECRI's Patient Safety Office Program. He was the first recipient of the NPSF's Chairman's Medal in 2006, an award recognizing new leadership in the field of patient safety. Before his career in patient safety, he spent eight years in the U.S. Submarine force, where he was responsible for weapons and ship safety as well as nuclear power plant operations. Richard Boothman, JD. Chief Risk Officer of University of Michigan Health System (Ann Arbor). Mr. Boothman joined the University of Michi- gan in 2001 after spending 22 years in private practice as a trial lawyer for 50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety – 2014 (continued from cover)

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