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9 Brent James, MD. Chief Quality Officer of Inter- mountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City). In addition to serving as CQO of Intermountain, a 22-hospital system, Dr. James is also the executive director of the Intermountain Institute for Healthcare Lead- ership, where he has personally trained more than 5,000 senior physician, nursing and administrative executives in clinical management methods fo- cused on quality and patient safety. He has received numerous awards for his contribution to improv- ing healthcare quality, including the NCQA Qual- ity Award and the Joint Commission's Earnest A. Codman Award, among others. Joe Kiani. Founder of the Patient Safety Move- ment Foundation. More than 200,000 preventable patient deaths happen in U.S. hospitals each year, and Mr. Kiani created the Patient Safety Movement Foundation in 2013 to reduce that number. PSMF held the first Patient Safety Science & Technology Summit in 2013 under Mr. Kiani's leadership, and President Bill Clinton was the keynote speaker. The Summit is now held annually. Mr. Kiani is also the founder, chairman and CEO of Masimo Corp., a global medical technology innovator. Clifford Ko, MD. Director of American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. Dr. Ko is a practicing surgeon, specializing in colon and rectal surgery, and serves as a professor in the UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health and holds the Robert and Kelly Day Chair in Surgi- cal Outcomes at UCLA. In addition to those roles, he is a research affiliate at the RAND Corp., and is the director of the NSQIP. Under his leadership, the ACS NSQIP received the 2014 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for innovation in patient safety and quality at the national level from The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum. Richard Kronick, PhD. Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In August 2013, Dr. Kronick was appointed as director of AHRQ by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. AHRQ's main mission is to produce evidence to make healthcare safer and more accessible. Before taking the helm at AHRQ, Dr. Kronick was the deputy assistant sec- retary for planning and evaluation at HHS, where he oversaw the Office of Health Policy. Before join- ing HHS, he was a professor and chief of the Divi- sion of Health Care Sciences in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. Lucian Leape, MD. Dr. Leape helped bring healthcare safety issues to light when his article "Error in Medicine" was published in JAMA in 1994. From there, he was part of the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Care in America Commit- tee, which published To Err is Human in 1999 and Crossing the Quality Chasm in 2001. Dr. Leape is also one of the founders of the National Patient Safety Foundation and Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Error. Dr. Leape is so well-recognized in the field of patient safety the NPSF named the Lucian Leape Institute after him — the institute was formed in 2007 to provide a vision for improving patient safety. He serves as its chair. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor of health policy at Harvard University. Jeffrey C. Lerner, PhD. President and CEO of ECRI Institute. Dr. Lerner has led the ECRI In- stitute (formerly the Emergency Care Research Institute) since 2001, and he also served as vice president for strategic planning of ECRI Institute for 17 years. In that role, he helped transition the organization from a medical device evaluation lab to a health research organization with a broader vision. Throughout his career, Dr. Lerner has made major presentations to government officials and professional organizations and also authored articles and editorials on the effects politics in medicine can have on patient safety and health- care quality, among other topics. Mary Lou Manning, PhD. President of the As- sociation for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. In addition to her role as pres- ident of APIC, which she assumed in 2015, Dr. Manning is an associate professor at the Thomas Jefferson University School of Nursing in Phila- delphia and is on the editorial board of several journals, including the American Journal of Infec- tion Control. She has more than 30 years of expe- rience in clinical practice, education and research in the infection prevention field. During the Ebo- la outbreak, she was part of a CDC team training healthcare workers who were going to West Africa as well as a member of the American Nurses As- sociation Expert Advisory Panel on Ebola. James Merlino, MD. President and CMO of Press Ganey's Strategic Consulting Division. Dr. Mer- lino, an experienced physician and executive, joined Press Ganey in 2015. In his role there, he helps pro- viders improve the delivery of safe, high-quality care and promote a patient-centered environment. Pre- viously, he was chief experience officer and associate chief of staff at the Cleveland Clinic health system and a practicing colorectal surgeon. He is also a pub- lished author, penning several academic papers as well as his book, "Service Fanatics: How to Build Su- perior Patient Experience the Cleveland Clinic Way," published in 2014. Additionally, he is the founder and president of the Association for Patient Experi- ence, a nonprofit committed to enhancing the clini- cal, physical and emotional healthcare environment. Elizabeth A. Mort, MD. Senior Vice President for Quality and Safety at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston). In addition to serving as se- nior vice president for quality and safety at Mass General and the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, Dr. Mort is also the associate CMO of the hospital. She researches clinical decision- making and quality improvement. She is a primary care physician and completed a master's degree in public health at the University of Michigan. Brigitta Mueller, MD. Vice President of Medi- cal Affairs and Chief Patient Safety Officer at All Children's Hospital Johns Hopkins Medicine (St. Petersburg, Fla.). Dr. Mueller joined All Children's in 2013 after serving as director of the division for clinical, operations, quality and safety at the Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers in Houston for 12 years. At All Children's, she oversees the full spectrum of quality and safety initiatives and has implemented many safety and quality ef- ficiencies. For instance, she started a daily 15-min- ute operational call allowing staff to discuss safety events and potential risks to help hospital leaders understand what's happening on the front line. Dr. Mueller is a member of the executive committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Quality Improvement and Patient Safety and a core faculty member of the Armstrong Institute for Pa- tient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Margaret E. O'Kane. President of the National Committee for Quality Assurance. Ms. O'Kane is the founding and current president of the NCQA, which was created in 1990. She was elected a mem- ber of the Institute of Medicine in 1999. Ms. O'Kane earned a master's degree in health services adminis- tration and planning from Johns Hopkins Universi- ty and has earned several awards, including the 2009 Picker Institute Individual Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Patient-Centered Care and the 2012 Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award from the National Center for Healthcare Leadership. Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD. Senior Vice President for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine (Baltimore). Dr. Pronovost wears many hats — he is a practicing anesthesiologist and critical Dr. Richard Kronick Dr. Peter Pronovost