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12 PATIENT SAFETY LEADERS Safety since January 2011. He also serves as director of the Centre for Patient Safety at the University of Toronto and is a scientist at the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto. Dr. Shojania has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in leading scientific journals and received a John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety Award from the Joint Commission in 2004. In 2015, he co-chaired a National Patient Safety Foundation panel to assess how the field of patient safety has changed since the 1999 release of the Institute of Medicine's "To Err Is Human" report. Andy Slavitt. Acting Administrator of CMS. Prior to being named acting administrator of CMS, Mr. Slavitt was the principal deputy administrator of the agency. Before joining CMS, he held a number of positions with firms such as Ingenix and Optum. Mr. Slavitt was founder and CEO of HealthAllies, a company focused on offering affordable care to uninsured or underinsured popula- tions. He has also held positions with Goldman Sachs, McKinsey & Company. Mr. Slavitt received his MBA from Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Mass. Robert K. Stoelting, MD. President of the Anesthesia Patient Safe- ty Foundation. In 2003, Dr. Stoelting became the first full-time president of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation. He has been a member of the Indianapolis-based Indiana University School of Medicine department of anesthesia since 1970 and has since been named chair of the department, which now offers a professorship in his name. Dr. Stoelting has authored textbooks on anesthesiology and regularly speaks and writes on patient safety. Robert M. Wachter, MD. Professor and Interim Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine University of California San Francisco. In addition to his faculty appointments with the University of California San Francisco's department of medicine, Dr. Wachter is chief of the division of hospitalist medicine. He is the best-selling author of the "The Digital Doctor" and is editor of the AHRQ Patient Safety Network, the federal patient safety por- tal, and AHRQ WebM&M, a patient safety journal. Dr. Wachter is past president of the Society of Hospital Medicine, has received numerous awards for his work in hospital medicine, has served on Google's healthcare advisory board and is former chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine. Stephen Weber, MD. Vice President of Clinical Effectiveness and CMO of University of Chicago Medicine. Dr. Weber holds a faculty appointment with the University of Chicago Medicine's infectious diseases and global health department, in addition to his administrative roles. His previous positions with the hospital include chief healthcare epidemiologist and medical director of infection control and medical director of the center of quality. Dr. Weber has authored a number of papers on preventing and man- aging hospital-acquired infections and the effect of public policy on hospital infection prevention. He is a Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America committee member and has affiliations with the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Ameri- can Society for Microbiology. Ronald Wyatt, MD. Patient Safety Officer of the Joint Com- mission. In his current role, Dr. Wyatt works to promote quality improvement and patient safety in health systems and expand the role of the commission in public policy. Additionally, he oversees data management and event analysis in the commission's Office of Quality and Patient Safety. Dr. Wyatt has been at the head of several important patient safety initiatives for the Joint Commission and has collaborated in the development of National Patient Safety Goals and Quick Safety publications. His previous roles include director of the Patient Safety Analysis Center at the Defense Health Agency Joint Commission, NQF Announce Eisenberg Patient Safety & Quality Award Winners By Shannon Barnet I n April, the Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum recognized achievements in patient safety and patient safety and care quality on an individual, national and local level with the announcement of the 2015 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award recipients. The awards are part of a patient safety program that was launched in 2002 by The Joint Commission and NQF. The most recent honorees received the awards in April at NQF's Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. Here are the three John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award winners: 1. The award for individual achievement went to Pascale Carayon, PhD, the Procter & Gamble Bascom Professor in Total Quality in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Dr. Carayon used human factors engineering and the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety model to advance the field of patient safety and quality. 2. Charlotte, N.C.-based Premier was recognized for in- novation at the national level in patient safety and quality. Premier was chosen for its quality improvement initiative — called QUEST, which stands for quality, effi- ciency, safety and transparency — which allowed roughly 350 volunteer health systems to transparently share data and define a common framework with consistent mea- sures of top performance. 3. The award for innovation at the local level went to Mayo Clinic Hospital in Rochester, Minn., for its hos- pitalwide effort to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections. By approaching the effort as a team, engaging frontline staff, identifying a bundle of inter- ventions and developing a toolkit and an innovative method of diffusion, the hospital reduced CAUTIs by 70 percent. n

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