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6 David Louis Battinelli, MD. CMO of North Shore-LIJ Health System (Great Neck, N.Y.). Dr. Battinelli has served as CMO of North Shore-LIJ since 2013. He is also dean for medical education at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medi- cine in Hempstead, N.Y. Dr. Battinelli has taught more than 200 local, regional and national faculty development seminars, courses and workshops on improving clinical teaching; presented more than 100 grand rounds and clinical problem solving presentations; and given more than 40 continu- ing medical education lectures at Boston Univer- sity. Under Dr. Battinelli's leadership, the North Shore-LIJ Health System received The Joint Com- mission and the National Quality Forum's 2014 John M. Eisenberg Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality at the Local Level award for lowering sepsis mortalities by 50 percent since 2009. Don Berwick, MD. President Emeritus and Senior Fellow of the Institute for Healthcare Improve- ment. Dr. Berwick served at the helm of IHI for nearly 20 years, starting in 1991, where he oversaw the cultivation of innovative concepts for improving patient care and the implementation of programs to put the ideas into action. Dr. Berwick is also a former CMS administrator, professor at the Harvard Medi- cal School and Harvard School of Public Health, and chair of numerous healthcare boards and com- missions. Dr. Berwick co-chaired a recent panel as- sembled by the National Patient Safety Foundation to assess the state of the patient safety field since the Institute of Medicine released To Err Is Human and set the stage for the next 15 years of work. Leah F. Binder. CEO of The Leapfrog Group (Washington, D.C.). Since 2008, Ms. Binder has led The Leapfrog Group, a national organization focused on helping healthcare achieve the triple aim that awards patient safety scores to hospitals based on survey data. Under her leadership, The Leapfrog Group launched the Hospital Safety Score and the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, which address key health policy issues, such as hospital infections. Ms. Binder frequently speaks on and writes about patient safety and quality improvement issues. Her writing has been featured in Forbes, Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal. Ms. Binder also served as a member of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's advisory panel on improving healthcare systems until April 2015. David Birnbach, MD. Director of the Center for Patient Safety at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine-Jackson Memorial Hospi- tal. Since being made director of the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Hospital Center for Patient Safety in 2006, Dr. Birnbach has worked to ensure that patient safety is a universal priority across the academic healthcare system. In 2011, Dr. Birnbach was made senior associate dean for quality, safety and risk for the entire UHealth- University of Miami Health System. The editor of two textbooks, author of more than 100 published articles and frequent lecturer; he is a well-known leader in patient safety research and education. John Bulger, DO. Chief Quality Officer and Lead of the Geisinger Health System (Danville, Pa.) Division of Quality and Safety. Dr. Bulger has served as chief quality officer of Geisinger since 2011. As lead of the quality and safety division, he oversees the education, redesign, measurement and reporting of patient safety and care systems that transform care, fulfill regulations and pro- mote the development of quality leaders. Under his leadership, Geisinger was named one of the top hospitals in the country for safety in 2013 by AARP The Magazine, which used data from the Leapfrog Group Hospital Safety Score. Dr. Bulger also serves on the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Au- thority's board of directors. Maureen Bisognano, RN. President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Ms. Bisognano became president and CEO of IHI in 2010, prior to which she served as IHI's executive vice president and COO for roughly 15 years. Ms. Bisognano serves as an adviser for healthcare lead- ers around the world, and frequently speaks at major healthcare conferences on quality improvement. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston and a research associate in the Brigham and Women's Hospital Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, also in Boston. Ms. Bisognano serves on the boards of the Commonwealth Fund, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value. Pascale Carayon, PhD. Human Factors Engineer- ing Expert. As an expert in human factors engi- neering, Dr. Carayon has studied medical errors and their causes in a variety of healthcare settings, including outpatient surgery, intensive care units, information technology, medical devices, medica- tion administration, and working environment for healthcare professionals. Dr. Carayon is a professor at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she has served as director of the university's Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement since 1999. Dr. Carayon is the author of the Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety and a volunteer for local, nation- al and international organizations to help reduce medical errors and improve patient safety. Christine Cassel, MD. President and CEO of the National Quality Forum. Dr. Cassel was made president and CEO of the NQF in 2013. As the head of the organization, she oversees the estab- lishment of national priorities for performance improvement, endorsement of standards for public reporting and promotion of national goals through education and outreach. Prior to joining NQF, Dr. Cassel — an expert in geriatric medicine, medical ethics and care quality — served as presi- dent and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation for a decade. Dr. Cassel was a founding member of the Com- monwealth Fund's Commission on a High Perfor- mance Health System and served on the Institute of Medicine's committees that wrote the influential reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm. She is still an active scholar and lecturer. MaryAnn Chanes, RN. Quality and Risk Man- ager at Children's Hospital of Orange County at Mission Hospital (Orange, Calif.). Ms. Chanes was made quality and risk manager at CHOC Children's at Mission Hospital in 2011. As the manager, Ms. Chanes works to effect change by supporting quality improvement measures throughout the hospital. She has led or collabo- rated with Mission Hospital partners on many improvements, including reducing unplanned extubations, overhauling the documentation sys- tem for critical value reporting and boosting hand hygiene compliance with contracted services. Ms. Chanes also provides structure and quality im- provement processes that allow the hospital to be most effective with its time and resources. Mark R. Chassin, MD. President and CEO of The Joint Commission. In addition to leading The Joint Commission, Dr. Chassin is also president of TJC's Center for Transforming Healthcare. The center was established in 2009 under Dr. Chassin's leadership and works with the nation's leading hospitals and health systems to address healthcare's most criti- cal safety and quality issues, including healthcare- associated infections, wrong-site surgery, surgi- cal site infections and preventing avoidable heart failure hospitalizations. Prior to joining TJC, Dr. Leah F. Binder Dr. Mark R. Chassin