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8 many other initiatives to improve quality and safety. Dr. Das is also actively engaged in patient safety ef- forts nationwide, including the Hospital Quality and Patient Safety Committee of the Society for Hospital Medicine and the Medical Leaders Steering Com- mittee of America's Essential Hospitals. Louise-Marie Dembry, MD. President-elect of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. As SHEA's 2015 board of trustees president-elect, Dr. Dembry supports the orga- nization's mission to prevent and control health- care-associated infections and advance the field of healthcare epidemiology. Dr. Dembry is also associate director of hospital epidemiology and quality improvement support services at Yale- New Haven (Conn.) Hospital. She has also been a professor of medicine, infectious diseases and epidemiology at Yale University's School of Medi- cine for more than two decades. Cynthia Deyling, MD. Chief Quality Officer at Cleveland Clinic. In addition to serving as Cleve- land Clinic's chief quality officer, Dr. Deyling has also served as chairman of regional operations for the Board of Governors since 2007 and ex- ecutive director of Cleveland Clinic Allied Health Education since 2006. Dr. Deyling is also medical director of Cleveland Clinic's Independence Fam- ily Health Center and is on the Cleveland Clinic Medical Executive Committee. Dr. Deyling has been named one of Cleveland's best physicians since 1997 by Cleveland Magazine. Sir Liam Donaldson. Patient Safety Envoy for the World Health Organization. An interna- tional champion for patient safety, Sir Donaldson serves as the patient safety envoy for the WHO and chairman of the Independent Monitoring for the Polio Eradication Programme. He is also the current chancellor of Newcastle University in the U.K. Previously, he was the foundation chair of the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety and the CMO for England, and the United Kingdom's Chief Medical Adviser, from 1998-2010. Sir Don- aldson has authored of more than 170 papers in peer-reviewed journals and a standard textbook of public health. Samuel Flanders, MD. Chief Quality and Safe- ty Officer of Beaumont Health (Royal Oak, Mich.). Dr. Flanders joined Beaumont Health — a nonprofit formed by Beaumont Health System, Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Bots- ford Health Care and Dearborn, Mich.-based Oakwood Healthcare — from Beaumont Health System, where he served as executive vice presi- dent of quality, safety and clinical effectiveness. He joined Beaumont Health System in 2008 as senior vice president and chief quality and safety officer, where he developed processes and sys- tems to improve clinical quality, safety and ef- fectiveness across the system and supervised the work of the system's clinical integration coun- cils. At Beaumont Health, Dr. Flanders oversees eight hospitals with 3,337 beds, 5,000 physicians and more than 33,000 employees. Tom Frieden, MD. Director of the Centers for Dis- ease Control and Prevention. Dr. Frieden has served as director of the CDC and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry since he was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009. As the CDC's director, he leads the country's efforts to control health threats from infectious dis- eases, respond to emergencies and battle the leading causes of suffering and death. In 2014, Dr. Frieden became a household name and the public face of the CDC's response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the U.S. Dr. Frieden sent staff to West Africa and to Dallas and New York to assist with Ebola patients, and the CDC created and updated guidance on how providers nationwide should handle Ebola treat- ment under his leadership. Karen Frush, MD. Chief Patient Safety Officer of Duke University Health System (Durham, N.C.). Dr. Frush became chief patient safety of- ficer at Duke University Health System in 2004, shortly after she completed the National Patient Safety Leadership program sponsored by the American Hospital Association and the National Patient Safety Foundation. She is also an associate professor of pediatrics and assistant professor in the Duke University School of Nursing. Dr. Frush serves on numerous patient safety committees and councils, including American Academy of Pediatrics' Safer Healthcare for Kids Project Ad- visory Committee, North Carolina Hospital As- sociation Center for Patient Safety and Hospital Quality and the Pediatric Patient Safety Expert Panel for Joint Commission Resources. Tejal K. Gandhi, MD. President and CEO of the National Patient Safety Foundation. After be- ing made president of NPSF in 2013, Dr. Gan- dhi quickly moved up to president and CEO of the foundation in 2014. Previously, she served as chief quality and safety officer of Boston-based Partners HealthCare, where she helped stan- dardize and implement patient safety best prac- tices across the system, and as executive director of quality and safety at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where she worked to rede- sign systems to reduce medical errors and im- prove quality. Dr. Gandhi is a board-certified internist and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Atul Gawande, MD, PhD. Dr. Gawande is a promi- nent surgeon — practicing general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Woman's Hospital in Bos- ton — a public health researcher and prolific writer. His 2009 book, "The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right," highlights how useful checklists can be in preventing adverse events and improving patient outcomes. His most recent book, "Being Mortal," was published in 2014 and discusses end-of-life care. He also contributes articles to major publications. In addition to those roles, Dr. Gawande is a co-founder and chairman of Lifebox, an international nonprofit for implementing systems to reduce surgical deaths. Mark Graber, MD. Senior Fellow in the Health Care Quality and Outcomes Program for RTI International. Dr. Graber has more than 30 years of experience in academic medicine and health- care research, specializing in diagnostic errors and patient safety. He is a published author, penning more than 80 peer-reviewed articles, and he even founded the journal Diagnosis in 2014 and serves as its editor-in-chief. Dr. Graber also founded and chaired the Diagnostic Error in Medicine confer- ence series and founded the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. He received the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for individual achievement in 2014 from The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum. Linda Groah, RN. Executive Director and CEO of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses. Ms. Groah has led AORN as CEO and executive director since March 2007, and she has years of experience practicing perioperative med- icine and as a nurse leader in a variety of roles at various hospitals — in fact, she has spent her en- tire career in the perioperative nursing manage- ment and practice space. She is the chair of the Nursing Alliance for Quality Care. Anthony Harris, MD. President of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Dr. Har- ris is an infectious disease physician, hospital epi- demiologist and a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. He became president of SHEA in 2015 after serving on its board since 2010. He is also on the editorial board of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology and has written more than 140 publications in peer-re- viewed journals. Some of his studies have had major effects on healthcare, like the Benefits of Universal Glove and Gown study published in JAMA. Helen Haskell. Founder of Mothers Against Medical Error. Ms. Haskell founded Mothers Against Medical Error after her son, Lewis, died after a medical error in 2000. Since then, she was closely involved in crafting South Carolina leg- islation, including the South Carolina Hospital Infection Disclosure Act. She has served on the boards of Consumers Advancing Patient Safety, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the National Patient Safety Foundation and the In- ternational Society of Rapid Response Systems. Dr. Tejal K. Gandhi

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