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10 care physician, the senior vice president for patient safety and quality and the director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine, and a professor in several de- partments of Johns Hopkins University. He created a checklist protocol that helped eliminate central line-associated infections and wrote a book chroni- cling the process, titled: "Safe Patients, Smart Hospi- tals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out." His work has been recognized with many awards, including the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety Research Award in 2004 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008. Gina Pugliese, RN. Vice President of Premier Safety Institute. With more than 40 years of ex- perience in healthcare safety, Ms. Pugliese serves as the vice president of the Premier Safety Insti- tute and has adjunct faculty appointments at Rush University College of Nursing and the University of Illinois School of Public Health in Chicago. Ear- lier in her career, Ms. Pugliese was the director of safety at the American Hospital Association. She is also a senior associate editor of Infection Con- trol and Hospital Epidemiology. In recognition of her work in patient safety, she has earned several awards, including the Carol De Mille outstanding achievement award from APIC. Kenneth Sands, MD. Chief Quality Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston). Dr. Sands is the chief quality officer and senior vice president of healthcare quality at BIDMC as well as an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. In his role at BIDMC, he oversees hospital functions relating to patient safety, risk management, patient relations and infection con- trol, among many other functions. He was a co- founder of a curriculum on quality improvement that is now a core requirement for residents in the department of medicine at Harvard. In addition to his medical degree, he has a master's degree in pub- lic health from Harvard School of Public Health. Pranavi Sreeramoju, MD. Chief of Infection Pre- vention at Parkland Health & Hospital System (Dallas). In addition to her role at Parkland, Dr. Sreeramoju is an assistant professor of medicine- infectious diseases at UT Southwestern Medicine Center. During her time with Parkland, she has helped implement infection prevention programs like hand hygiene and a mandatory influenza vac- cination program for healthcare personnel. Her leadership helped place Parkland in the National Honor Roll for Patient Safety. Dr. Sreeramoju serves on several quality and safety committees, including the Society for Healthcare Epidemiol- ogy of America public policy and government affairs committee, the Texas Medical Association Council for Quality and Patient Safety and the city-wide infection control and antimicrobial stewardship committee. Kaveh G. Shojania, MD. Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Quality & Safety. Dr. Shojania is a scientist at the Toronto-based Sunnybrook Research Institute and director of the Centre for Patient Safety at the Uni- versity of Toronto. His research is focused on pa- tient safety, quality improvement, knowledge trans- lation and evidence synthesis. In 2011, Dr. Shojania was made editor-in-chief of BMJ Quality & Safety. This year, Dr. Shojania co-chaired a panel assem- bled by the National Patient Safety Foundation that assessed the state of the patient safety field and how it has changed since the Institute of Medicine re- leased To Err is Human in 1999. Joan Silver, RN. Vice President of Organizational Quality and Performance Improvement and Pa- tient Safety Officer for PinnacleHealth (Harris- burg, Pa.). Ms. Silver, who has more than 25 years of experience, took her current role at Pinnacle- Health in 2000, and in this role she is accountable for developing strategic direction, philosophy, planning and programming for organizational quality and safety. Since she took on this role, the system has been named in the top 5 percent in pa- tient safety by The Joint Commission for several years and became certified by the Joint Commis- sion in advanced heart failure, advanced inpatient diabetes, advanced stroke, knee and hip surgery, spine surgery and stroke rehabilitation. Robert K. Stoelting, MD. President of the Anes- thesia Patient Safety Foundation. Dr. Stoelting became the full-time president of the APSF in 2003 after a long career in academic medicine. He joined the faculty of the Department of An- esthesia at the Indiana University School of Medi- cine in 1970 and became professor and chair of the department in 1997. APSF is an organization devoted to research, education and idea exchanges surrounding patient safety during anesthesia care. Robert M. Wachter, MD. Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine University of California, San Francisco. A prolific author, Dr. Wachter has penned 250 articles and six books, including two on healthcare safety. Addition- ally, he edits two government websites on safety. Dr. Wachter is considered the father of hospital- ist medicine and coined the term "hospitalist" in 1996. In 2004, he received the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award, the top honor in the nation for patient safety. In 2015, he will publish yet another book, on how computers are transforming medicine. Gail Warden. President Emeritus of Henry Ford Health System (Detroit). Mr. Warden served as president and CEO of Henry Ford Health System from 1988 to 2003 and is cur- rently the system's president emeritus. His ef- forts there helped build the system into the sec- ond largest in Michigan. Mr. Warden, who holds a master's degree in healthcare management from the University of Michigan, served on the Institute of Medicine committee that released two fundamental patient safety reports. He has been nationally recognized for his contributions to healthcare — he received the 2013 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for individual achievement. n Joan Silver, RN Dr. Robert M. Wachter SAVE THE DATE Becker's Hospital Review CIO/HIT + Revenue Cycle Summit July 20-21, 2015, Ritz Carlton, Chicago, IL learn more & register at beckershospitalreview.com