Becker's Clinical Quality & Infection Control

11 PATIENT SAFETY LEADERS Mr. Maxik helps clients to realize better patient outcomes through continual process improvement while insuring they are in line with perpetually changing healthcare regulations. Mr. Maxik develops and annually updates a proprietary 250-point patient safety checklist for clients. Aer analyzing these measures, Mr. Maxik is able to create custom recommendations on protocols to improve patient safety in the client's facility. Mr. Maxik is also the president of the Kentucky Association for Healthcare Quality and the president-elect of the Kentucky Center for Performance Excellence. Lisa McGiffert. Director of Consumers Union's Safe Patient Project. Ms. McGiffert has been a resolute advocate for patient safety. She has worked to eliminate preventable medical errors and to improve the safety of physician care and medical devices. She lobbies on national and state patient safety legislation and regu- lations to improve accountability and expand public knowledge about medical harm. With the Consumers Union, Ms. MacGiffert launched a national campaign in 2003 to get hospitals to publicly report infection rates. at campaign successfully facilitated the passage of infection rate disclosure legislation for hospitals in 30 states. Ms. McGiffert also serves as the consumer liaison to the CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and as consumer representative on the National Quality Forum's infection control committee. James Merlino, MD. President and CMO of Chief Strategic Con- sulting for Press Ganey. As a surgeon with more than two decades of healthcare experience, Dr. Merlino served as chief experience officer and associate chief of staff at the Cleveland Clinic prior to joining Press Ganey. He has written a book on how to improve the patient experience and has been published in a number of academic journals. In addition to his current role, Dr. Merlino is president and founder of the Association for Patient Experience and a founding executive council member of the Institute for Innovation, both non- profit organizations. Elizabeth A. Mort, MD. Senior Vice President for Quality and Safety at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston). After completing her residency in primary care internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Mort participated in a two-year fellowship at Boston-based Harvard Medical School's department of healthcare policy. She previously served on the American Hospital Association's panel on Healthcare-Acquired Conditions, was a member of the National Committee for Quality Assurance's Women's Health Management Advisory Panel and the National Quality Foundation Steering Committee for Additional Priorities for Acute Hospital Quality Measures. Dr. Mort also currently co-chairs the Massachusetts Medical Society and is an assistant professor of both medicine and healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School. Brigitta Mueller, MD. Vice President of Medical Affairs and Chief Patient Safety Officer at All Children's Hospital Johns Hopkins Medicine (St. Petersburg, Fla.). Prior to joining All Chil- dren's Hospital Johns Hopkins Medicine in 2013, Dr. Mueller was a faculty member at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and division director for clinical, operations, quality and safety for the Texas Children's Hospital cancer and hematology centers. She has also served as an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Med- ical School in Boston and an attending physician at Boston Chil- dren's Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Dr. Mueller has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles in scientific publications and is an examiner for the National Baldrige Performance Excellence Program and a member of the American College of Physician Executives. Patty Murray. Senator from Washington State. Sen. Murray is the first female senator from Washington. She has placed a major focus on healthcare-related initiatives. In addition to leading the charge on the Senate investigation of Olympus scopes linked to antimicro- bial-resistant superbug infections, she has been part of a variety of legislation that advocates for patients. ese include investing in IT programs such as telehealth for underserved populations and championing health insurance for millions of children. Sen. Murray has also worked to pass legislation that ensures medical devices and drugs for children have to go through special Food and Drug Administration approval. Margaret E. O'Kane. President of National Committee for Quality Assurance. Ms. O'Kane received the distinguished alumnus award from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University, where she received her master's degree in health administration and planning. In addi- tion to being the founding and current president of the NCQA, she is a member of the Quality Alliance Steering Committee, was elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine and is recognized for excel- lence in leadership by the National Center for Healthcare Leadership. Ms. O'Kane also serves on the advisory board for the Johns Hopkins Medicine Bloomberg School of Public Health, the board of directors of the Milbank Memorial Fund, and is chairman of the board of the nonprofit organization Healthwise. Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD. Director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. In addition to his role at the Arm- strong Institute, Dr. Pronovost is the senior vice president for patient safety and quality for Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine. As the formulator of a widely used checklist protocol that is credited with saving thousands of lives and hundreds of millions of dollars in healthcare costs, Dr. Pronovost is a leading authority on patient safe- ty worldwide. He has been named one of the world's most influential people by Time magazine, was granted a MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant" in 2008 and regularly advocates for the importance of patient safety to Congress. Dr. Pronovost has written more than 400 articles and chapters on patient safety and the evaluation of efforts to improve the patient experience. Gina Pugliese, RN. Vice President of Premier Safety Institute. In addition to her role as vice president of Premier Safety Institute, Ms. Pugliese is an associate faculty member of the Rush University Col- lege of Nursing and an adjunct faculty member of the University of Illinois School of Public Health, both in Chicago. Her prior positions include director of safety for the American Hospital Association and committee appointments with the Food and Drug Administration, the CDC, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Quality Forum. Ms. Pugliese has authored more than 140 publications, and, in 2005, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiol- ogy of America established a scholarship in her name. Selwyn Rogers, MD. Vice President and CMO of University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston). Prior to joining the University of Texas Medical Branch, Dr. Rogers was professor and chairman of surgery at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia and division chief for trauma, burns and surgical care at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He is a member of the CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and has held academic appointments with Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University, both in Nashville. Kaveh G. Shojania, MD. Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Quality & Safety. Dr. Shojania has been editor-in-chief of BMJ Quality &

• Cover