Fellowships Faculty and advisors

Patient Safety Leadership

Darvin Ayre
President
Ayre & Associates

Doug Bonacum, MBA, CPHQ, CPHRM
Vice President, Safety Management
Kaiser Permanente

Douglas J. Borg, MHA, ARM, CPHRM
Director of Insurance
Duke University Health System

Jeff Brown, MEd
Principal
System Safety Group

Alide L. Chase
Senior Vice President, Quality and Safety
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
Kaiser Permanente

John R. Combes, MD
President & COO
Center for Healthcare Governance
American Hospital Association

James Conway, MD
Senior Fellow
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Senior Consultant
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Jennifer Daley, MD, FACP
Chief Medical Officer
Tenet Healthcare

Charles Denham, MD
Chairman
Texas Medical Institute of Technology

Nancy Foster
Senior Associate Director, Policy
American Hospital Association

Rick Foster, MA
President
Foster, Hicks & Associates

Allan Frankel, MD
Director of Patient Safety
Partners HealthCare System

Brent James, MD
Vice President for Medical Research
Intermountain Health Care

Eric Knox, MD
Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Minnesota

Michael Leonard, MD
Physician Leader for Patient Safety
Kaiser Permanente

Della Lin, MD
Executive Director of CME
The Queen’s Medical Center

David Marx
Principal
Outcome Engineering, LLC

Steve Mayfield
Senior Vice President, Quality & Performance Improvement
American Hospital Association

Keith McCandless
Principal
Oblique Strategy

Julie Morath, RN, MS
Chief Operations Officer
Children’s Hospitals and Clinics

Denise Murphy
Vice President, Chief Safety & Quality Officer
Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Diane C. Pinakiewicz, MBA
President
National Patient Safety Foundation

Mary A. Pittman, DrPH
President
Health Research & Educational Trust

Paul Preston, MD
Anesthesiologist, Asst. Chief of Quality
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center

Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD
Medical Director
Johns Hopkins Center for
Innovation in Quality Patient Care

Michael D. Pugh, MPH
President & CEO
Verisma Systems, Inc.

Matthew Scanlon, MD
Asst. Professor, Pediatric Critical Care
Medical College of Wisconsin

Lisa Schilling, RN, MPH
Senior Director, Healthcare Performance Improvement
Department of Care & Service Quality
Kaiser Permanente

J. Bryan Sexton, PhD
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins Quality and Safety Research Group

Elizabeth Summy
Executive Director
American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM)
Associate Vice President, Personal Membership Groups
American Hospital Association

Saul Weingart, MD, PhD
Vice President, Patient Safety
Director, Center for Patient Safety
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Mark Williams, MD, FACP
Editor-in-Chief, J. of Hospital Medicine
Past President, Society for Hospital Medicine (SHM)
Chief, Division of Hospital Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Brenda Zimmerman, PhD
Associate Professor of Policy/Strategic Management
York University, Ontario

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cultural Competence Leadership

Dennis P. Andrulis, PhD, MPH
Director, Center for Health Equality
Associate Dean of Research
Drexel University

Anne Beal, MD, MPH
Senior Program Officer
The Commonwealth Fund

Joseph R. Betancourt, MD, MPH
Senior Scientist and Program Director for Multicultural Education
Institute for Health Policy
Health Disparities Center
Massachusetts General Hospital

Sonja Boone, MD
Director of Diversity
Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Kim Byas, Sr., MPH, CHE
Regional Executive
American Hospital Association

Gruffie Clough
President
Clough & Associates

Ross Conner, PhD
Director, Center for Community Health
University of California, Irvine

Carmela Coyle
Senior Vice President, Advocacy and Public Policy
American Hospital Association

Paul T. Doyle
Director, Community Health Strategy
Spectrum Health

Janice Dreachslin, PhD
Associate Professor of Health, Policy and Administration
Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies

Rick Foster, MA
President
Foster, Hicks & Associates

Bill Grace, PhD
Founder
Center for Ethical Leadership
President
Grace & Associates

Alexander R. Green, MD, MPH
Director of Education and Outcomes
Institute for Health Policy
Health Disparities Center
Massachusetts General Hospital

William A. Guillory, PhD
Founder
Innovations International, Inc

Milano Harden, MA
The Genius Group, Inc.

Romana Hasnain-Wynia, PhD
Senior Director, Research
Health Research & Educational Trust

Frederick D. Hobby, MA
President & CEO
Institute for Diversity in Health Management

LaVonna Blair Lewis, PhD, MPH
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Southern California

Robert C. Like, MD
Director, Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Edward L. Martinez, MS
Consulting for Health Care Management in U.S. Communities

Keith McCandless
Principal
Oblique Strategy

Matthew Mock, MD
Director, Center for Multicultural Development
California Institute for Mental Health

Elaine Shen Rollins
Cultural Competency Media Consultant
Manager, Community Engagement, Education Network
KQED, Inc.

Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP
Associate Professor, Clinical Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Mary A. Pittman, DrPH
President
Health Research & Educational Trust

Marie Sinioris, MPH
President and CEO
National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL)

Hazel Symonette, PhD
Senior Policy and Program Development Specialist
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Brenda Zimmerman, PhD
Associate Professor of Policy/Strategic Management
York University, Ontario