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9 Sign up for the Free Becker's Infection Control and Clinical Quality E-Weekly at www.beckersasc.com/clinicalquality. physicians, hospitals and health systems. He first joined as assistant general counsel before assuming his current position. He is a frequent contributor to national media outlets on the subject of patient safety and has testified before the federal government on patient safety topics. Mr. Boothman has participated in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's National Advisory Committee Subcommittee for Patient Safety and Medical Liability Reform and is a member of the boards of governors for the National Patient Safety Foundation and the Michigan Hospital Association Patient Safety Or- ganization. Helga Brake, PharmD, CPHQ. Patient Safety Leader at Northwestern Me- morial Hospital (Chicago). Ms. Brake serves as Northwestern Memorial Hospital's leader of patient safety. She is a member of the National Patient Safety Foundation's American Society of Professionals in Patient Safety and was an American Hospital Association National Patient Safety Foundation Patient Safety Leadership Fellow for 2011. Under Ms. Brake's leadership, Northwestern Memorial has maintained consistently excellent performance for patient safety. Christine Cassel, MD. President and CEO of the National Quality Forum. Dr. Cassel has served in her current position since mid-2013, leading the NQF in establishing national priorities for performance improvement, endorsing standards for public reporting and promoting national goals through educa- tion and outreach. She came to the position from a 10-year stint as president and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine. She is board certi- fied in internal medicine and geriatric medicine. Dr. Cassel has served as a member of the Measure Applications Partnership Coordinating Committee and of the National Priorities Partnership. She has co-authored 14 books and more than 200 journal articles on topics including geriatric medicine, aging, bioethics and health policy. Mark R. Chassin, MD, FACP, MPP, MPH. President of The Joint Commission and President and CEO of the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare (Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.). Dr. Chassin, in addition to leading The Joint Commission, was a member of the Institute of Medicine committee that published the seminal 1999 article To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Before his current position at The Joint Commission, Dr. Chassin was executive vice president for excellence in patient care, Edmond A. Guggenheim Professor of Health Policy and founding chairman of the department of health policy at New York City-based Mount Sinai Medical Center and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, respectively. He is a board-certified internist. Michael R. Cohen, RPh, MS, ScD. President of the Institute for Safe Medi- cation Practices (Horsham, Pa.). Dr. Cohen is president of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices and vice chair of The Joint Commission's patient safety advisory group, which is responsible for creating the National Patient Safety Goals. He is a 2005 MacArthur Fellow and serves as a consultant to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Drug Safety and Risk Management Committee. He also writes a weekly column on safety in healthcare for the Philadelphia Enquirer. Molly Coye, MD, MPH. Chief Innovation Officer at UCLA Health (Los An- geles). Dr. Coye was appointed to her current position in 2010. She is respon- sible for developing programs to promote innovation to improve healthcare across the continuum of care. Dr. Coye is one of the authors of the To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm reports from the Institute of Medi- cine. At the IOM, she has also co-chaired the Committee on Patient Safety Data Standards. She is also a past commissioner of health for New Jersey, di- rector of the California Department of Health Services and founder and CEO of the nonprofit Health Technology Center, an organization for technology in healthcare. She is chairman of the board for PAT, a nonprofit developing international health technologies. Katrina Crist, MBA. CEO of the Association for Professionals in Infec- tion Control and Prevention. Ms. Crist assumed her position at APIC in mid-2011. She was a contributor to the APIC Strategic Plan 2020, "toward healthcare without infection." Before her time at APIC, Ms. Crist was execu- tive director for the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, helping de- velop regulatory standards for solid organ transplantation. She serves in an ex-officio capacity on APIC's board of directors. James DeFontes, MD. Patient Safety Officer for Kaiser Permanente South- ern California (Oakland). Dr. DeFontes became Kaiser's patient safety of- ficer after serving as leader of the system's perioperative group, instituting systemwide observance of surgical checklists, timeouts and briefings. He is responsible for creating the first patient briefing process with outcomes, Highly Reliable Teams, patient safety huddles and just culture in the Kaiser system, all of which have coincided with a 40 percent decrease in reported safety events. He is a frequent speaker on patient safety and has spoken twice at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement national conference. Sir Liam Donaldson, Patient Safety Envoy for the World Health Organiza- tion. Sir Donaldson is the founding chairman of the WHO's World Alliance for Patient Safety. In addition to his current position, he also serves as chair- man of the Independent Monitoring for the Polio Eradication Programme. He is also a professor and chair of the Department of Health Policy at Impe- rial College in London and chancellor of Newcastle University. He has previ- ously served as CMO for England and as the United Kingdom's chief medical advisor between 1998 and 2010. Jane Englebright, PhD, RN, CENP, FAAN. CNO, Patient Safety Officer & Vice President of the Clinical Services Group for Hospital Corporation of America (Nashville, Tenn.). Dr. Englebright has led HCA's patient safety program since it began in 2000 and has helped define HCA's culture-tech- nology-process model employed at the company's hundreds of hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers. Dr. Englebright is also the at-large nursing rep- resentative to The Joint Commission's Board of Commissioners and is co- chair of the National Patient Safety Foundation's Board of Governors. Ethan Freid, MD, FACP. Founder of the NYACP Near-Miss Registry. Along with the New York Chapter of the American College of Physicians, Dr. Freid developed the Near Miss Registry, a registry designed to document circum- stances leading up to incidents that could have harmed patients, in order to better understand the circumstances leading up to near misses. The pro- gram is anonymous under the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005. Dr. Freid is also director of graduate medical education at St. Luke's- Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City and chairman of the association of program directors in internal medicine. Tom Frieden, MD, MPH. Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. President Barack Obama appointed Dr. Frieden to his current post in 2009. Dr. Frieden oversees the CDC, which is dedicated to reducing disease and dangers to public health by many means, including the National Healthcare Safety Network. The priorities he has set for the agency include improving health security, reducing leading causes of death and illness and strengthening public health and healthcare collaboration. He has been with CDC since 1990, when he started as an epidemic intelligence service officer in New York City, later becoming New York City Public Health Commissioner in 2002, the position in which he served until his appointment as director of the CDC. Karen Frush, MD. Chief Patient Safety Officer at Duke University Health System (Durham, N.C.). Dr. Frush has held her position as chief patient safety officer at Duke University Health System since 2004, a role she has held since completing the National Patient Safety Leadership program. Dr. Frush has been a member of the advisory board for the North Carolina Hospital Association Center for Patient Safety and Hospital Quality since 2005. she also serves on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Pediat- ric Emergency Medicine and the Safer Healthcare for Kids project advisory committee. She is a master trainer for TeamSTEPPS and is a pediatric patient safety expert for The Joint Commission Resources panel. Dr. Frush is also an associate professor of pediatrics and an assistant professor at the Duke University School of Nursing. Chu Foxlin. Associate at Tsoi/Kobus & Associates (Cambridge, Mass.). Ms. Foxlin is a healthcare architect who focuses on incorporating safety, sustain- ability and customization into healthcare architectural design. She takes a particularly hands-on approach to understanding the precise needs of pa- tients in a given healthcare facility. For example, before designing an out- patient facility for Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary in Boston, she was fitted with a pair of vision-impairing glasses to get a first-hand sense of those

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