Becker's Clinical Quality & Infection Control

10 PATIENT SAFETY LEADERS ogy innovator credited with revolutionizing noninvasive patient monitoring, Mr. Kiani has been at the forefront of patient safety and innovation for more than 20 years. In 2013, he founded PSMF with the goal of eliminating preventable deaths by 2020. Mr. Kiani has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a SafeCare Person of the Year Award in 2015. e award was given in recognition for Mr. Kiani's significant contributions to the improvement of patient safety and healthcare quality. Clifford Y. Ko, MD. Director of American College of Surgeons' National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. In his role at the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Ko oversees all the quality improvement programs, including the bariatric surgery accredi- tation program, the cancer accreditation program and the trauma verification program among others. Under his leadership, the ACS NSQIP was honored with the 2014 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safe- ty and Quality Award for innovation in patient safety and quality at the national level from e Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum. Dr. Ko is a double board-certified surgeon, special- izing in colon and rectal surgery. He is the Robert and Kelly Day Professor of Surgery at UCLA and has won the Faculty Teaching Award three times. Richard Kronick, PhD. Former Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Kronick originally joined the HHS in January 2010 as deputy assistant secretary for planning and evaluation, overseeing the Office of Health Policy. In August 2013, Dr. Kronick was appointed as director of AHRQ by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. During his tenure, the work of the AHRQ and that of other government agencies and the private sector led to hospital care that was 17 percent safer in 2014 than 2010, according to current HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell. Dr. Kronick an- nounced his departure from AHRQ in February this year. He plans to return to the University of California, San Diego, where he was previously a professor and chief of the division of healthcare sciences in the family and preventive medicine department. Stephen Lawless, MD. Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer at Nemours Children's Health System (Jacksonville, Fla.). Dr. Lawless is a pediatric physician and a professor of pediatrics at omas Jefferson University in Philadelphia in addition to his role at Nemours, a system with locations in Florida, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. His quality and safety responsibilities at Nemours Children's include infection control, clinical outcomes and risk management. Dr. Lawless represents Nemours with the Na- tional Quality Forum and has presented on the subject of healthcare quality at many national forums. Dr. Lawless helped lead the first collaboration between the America Academy of Pediatrics, the Chil- dren's' Hospital Association and the American Board of Pediatrics to produce national pediatric quality and safety guidelines that were then adopted by the Joint Commission ORYX initiative. Lucian Leape, MD. Physician and Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. e first portion of Dr. Leape's career was centered on pediatric surgery — he was instrumental in the founding of the American Pediatric Surgical Association. In 1986, Dr. Leape made the shi to health policy. In 1994, Dr. Leape shed light on healthcare safety concerns in his article "Error in Medicine," which was published in JAMA and called for the application of systems theory to prevent medical errors. He has been honored with an American Pediatric Surgical Association's Distinguished Service Award and the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award from the Joint Commission and National Quality Forum. In 2007, the National Patient Safety Foundation inaugurated the Lucian Leape Institute to advance strategic thinking in patient safety. Jeffrey C. Lerner, PhD. President and CEO of ECRI Institute. Dr. Lerner has been the CEO of ECRI — the largest indepen- dent nonprofit healthcare technology assessment institute that is focused on improving patient care — since 2001. He previously held the position of vice president for strategic planning for 17 years where he was at the forefront of ECRI's transition from a medical device evaluation laboratory to a much broader health research organization that assesses clinical procedures and drug therapies as well as medical devices. Dr. Lerner received his PhD and other degrees from Columbia University in New York, where he's been awarded three University President's Fellowships and other honors. Rachel Levine, MD. Chair of the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority. As the physician general of Pennsylvania, Dr. Levine heads up the safety authority and advises the governor on public health matters and policy. e PPSA works to reduce or eliminate medical errors by finding problems in the system and suggesting solutions, and the group releases several reports each year that con- tribute to that mission. Dr. Levine is also a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine. She graduat- ed from Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., in 1979 and the New Orleans-based Tulane University School of Medicine in 1983. Dr. Levine has lectured internationally and published articles on the topics of adolescent medicine, eating disorders and transgender medicine. Helen Macfie, PharmD. Chief Transformation Officer of Memori- alCare Health System (Fountain Valley, Calif.). In her role at Me- morialCare, a six-hospital health system serving Southern Califor- nia, Dr. Macfie is responsible for leading systemwide transformation and improvement in the system's clinical quality, patient safety and risk management areas. Her accomplishments include establishing, implementing and refining bold goals in patient safety and quality that have resulted in a 10 percent reduction in readmission rate, 28 percent improvement in patient experience ratings, and elimination of more than $135 million in avoidable costs through lean redesign. Dr. Macfie also has served in advisory positions for a number of prestigious leadership groups devoted to improving patient safety. ese include the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the Califor- nia Hospital Quality Institute and the California Hospital Associa- tion Quality Committee. Julie Marhalik-Helms, BSN, RN. Senior Director of Quality Im- provement of North American Partners in Anesthesia (Melville, N.Y.). Ms. Marhalik-Helms is a registered nurse with 18 years of hospital experience. She visits NAPA's client locations with regu- larity to train and educate clinicians and clinical leaders on patient safety and quality of care. Her article entitled "Providing Anesthe- sia Services Outside of the Hospital: How Compliant Are You?" was featured in the August 2015 issue of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. In 2015, Ms. Marhalik-Helms worked alongside system engineers to develop a proprietary reporting application for patient safety called NAPA Quality Improvement Patient Safety Tracking. NQIPS allows providers to notify NAPA's quality departments about patient events. e application also conducts data analysis to identify potential risks and generate alerts to help clinicians improve patient safety. Ken Maxik. Director of Patient Safety and Pharmacy Compliance of CompleteRx (Houston). Mr. Maxik has worked with hospitals for more than 20 years on patient safety and compliance. At CompleteRx — a hospital pharmacy management and patient care company —

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