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10 Sign up for the Free Becker's Infection Control and Clinical Quality E-Weekly at www.beckersasc.com/clinicalquality. patients' needs and to come up with targeted design solutions to meet those needs. In addition to MEEI, Ms. Foxlin designed the University of Minne- sota's Amplatz Children's Hospital. Tejal K. Gandhi, MD, MPH, CPPS. President of the National Patient Safe- ty Foundation. Dr. Gandhi came to the NPSF from her position as CQO and chief safety officer at Boston-based Partners Healthcare. Before that, she was executive director of quality and safety at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. She received the 2009 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality award for her research in patient safety and reducing error through employing information systems. Dr. Gandhi is also president of the Lucian Leape Institute and president of the American Society of Profes- sionals in Patient Safety. Atul Gawande, MD, PhD. Professor of Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health (Boston). Dr. Gawande is a surgeon, journalist and public health researcher. For the past 12 years, he has been a staff writer for New Yorker magazine, where he began his career as a writer by publishing several pieces on the life of a medical resident. He is best known for his best-selling 2009 book "The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right," in which he illuminates the power of the checklist in preventing adverse events in high- risk situations. Dr. Gawande is co-founder and chairman of an international nonprofit for implementing systems to reduce surgical deaths, Lifebox. He currently practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and is also a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Linda Groah, RN, MSN, CNOR, CNAA, FAAN. Executive Director and CEO of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses. Ms. Groah has served as executive director and CEO of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses since 2007. She has spent her entire career in perioperative nursing management and practice. Before her time at AORN, she was COO and nurse executive at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in San Francisco, where she introduced leadership rounding and just culture as patient safety initia- tives. Ms. Groah is chair of the Nursing Alliance for Quality Care. Michael Henderson, MD. Chief Quality Officer of Cleveland Clinic. In ad- dition to serving as chief quality officer, Dr. Henderson is also chairman of the Quality and Patient Safety Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. He is respon- sible for quality and safety improvement activities in the Cleveland Clinic system. Dr. Henderson is a surgeon specializing in hypertension and pan- creatic surgery. Gordon C. Hunt Jr., MD, MBA. Senior Vice President and CMO for Sutter Health (Sacramento, Calif.). Under Dr. Hunt's leadership, Sutter Health's Sutter Davis (Calif.) Hospital received the 2013 Baldrige Award, an honor bestowed upon organizations with exemplary leadership, strategic plan- ning, customer focus, measurement, analysis and knowledge management, workforce focus, operations focus and results. Dr. Hunt is responsible for leading the system's quality and care integration initiatives. He has previ- ously served as vice chairman of the board and a director of the Health Technology Center for the system. He is board certified in both internal and pulmonary medicine. Christie Hutchinson, RN. Vice President of Care Coordination at First Choice Emergency Room (Lewisville, Texas). Ms. Hutchinson, who has a background in emergency nursing, is responsible for compliance and educa- tion as it relates to nursing, reception and imaging services at First Choice Emergency Room, overseeing safety for the organization and ensuring plans are in place to standardize quality among locations. The First Choice Emer- gency Room was the first freestanding ED in the country to receive The Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval, according to the provider's web- site. First Choice Emergency Room was founded in 2002 and has locations throughout Texas and Colorado. Donald Kennerly, MD, PhD. Chief Quality Officer at Baylor Health Care System and Chief Patient Safety Officer for Baylor Scott & White Health (Dallas). As leader of quality at Baylor Health Care, Dr. Kennerly helped the system develop and implement programs aimed at attaining "no preventable deaths, no preventable injures and no preventable risk," the system's qual- ity vision. As chief patient safety officer for Baylor Scott & White Health, Dr. Kennerly has led quality and patient safety integration between Baylor Health Care System and Scott & White Healthcare, creating best practices and appropriate quality governance to ensure quality and safety are first priorities for the new system. In addition to leading the implementation of important patient safety programs, Dr. Kennerly has contributed to the lit- erature related to developing and using trigger tools to detect, quantify and characterize adverse events. He has served as chair of the Executive Com- mittee of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Data Initiative, a nation- ally prominent regional data sharing collaborative and also as a member of a National Quality Forum Patient Safety panel. Joe Kiani. Founder of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. Mr. Ki- ani founded the Patient Safety Movement Foundation in 2013. The mis- sion of the PSMF is to create unity among healthcare entities to identify the sources of patient harms, promote transparency and promote patient safety. Mr. Kiani is responsible for founding the Patient Safety Science & Technology Summit. The first summit set a goal of zero patient deaths by the year 2020. He is also founder and CEO of Masimo, which he founded in 1989 to improve the accuracy of noninvasive patient monitoring. He works with lawmakers to shape policy around healthcare safety, and he is the winner of the 2012 Ernst & Young National Entrepreneur of the Year Life Sciences Award. Richard Kronick, PhD, Director for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Kronick joined AHRQ in 2010 as deputy assistant secre- tary for planning and evaluation and head of the Office of Health Policy. His work in the office was crucial to the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In addition to his current position at AHRQ, which has a mission to make patient care safer through research and the dissemination of knowledge, he sits on the board of governors for the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Initiative. Before joining HHS, Dr. Kronick was a professor and chief of the Division of Health Care Sci- ences in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the Univer- sity of California, San Diego. Lucian Leape, MD. Chairman of the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation (Boston). Dr. Leape is chairman of the National Patient Safety Foundation's Lucian Leape Institute, which he established with the organization in 2007 to further strategic thinking in patient safety. He is also a founder of the NSPF, in addition to founding the Massachusetts Coali- tion for the Prevention of Medical Error and the Harvard Kennedy School Executive Session on Medical Error. Dr. Leape is the 2001 winner of the Life- time Achievement Award from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices and the 2004 winner of the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award in 2004. He is also an adjunct professor of health policy in the de- partment of health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. Jeffrey C. Lerner, PhD. President and CEO of ECRI. ECRI (formerly the Emergency Care Research Institute) is an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-certified patient safety organization. Dr. Lerner oversees activi- ties at ECRI, which is focused on assessing technology to improve patient safety and healthcare. Before serving as ECRI's president, Dr. Lerner was vice president for strategic planning at the organization, helping ECRI move from a medical device evaluation center to an organization with a broader focus, including clinical procedures and drug therapies. In addition, he was the first director of ECRI's Evidence-based Practice Center and coordinator of the Technical Expert Panel of the National Guideline Clearinghouse. He is a frequent contributor to journal articles discussing the effects the politics of medicine have on patient safety and healthcare quality. Marty Makary, MD. Dr. Makary is the author of "Unaccountable: What Hos- pitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care," an exposé of the failures of the American health system published in 2013. Dr. Makary was also one of the original authors of the checklist later adapt- ed and adopted by the World Health Organization, where he spearheaded the committee to develop global surgical quality metrics. Additionally, he is a speaker on accountability and transparency in medicine, serving on the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Pro-