Consistent with the IHI’s policy, faculty for this program are expected to disclose at the beginning of their presentation(s) any economic or other personal interests that create, or may be perceived as creating, a conflict related to the material discussed. The intent of this disclosure is not to prevent a speaker with a significant financial or other relationship from making a presentation, but rather to provide participants with information on which they can make their own judgments.
Unless otherwise noted below, each presenter provided full disclosure information, does not intend to discuss an unapproved/investigative use of a commercial product/device, and has no significant financial relationship(s) to disclose. If unapproved uses of products are discussed, presenters are expected to disclose this to participants.
Beth M. Averbeck, MD, Associate Medical Director for Primary Care, HealthPartners Medical Group, is a practicing internist with over 15 years of leadership experience in clinic and hospital operations and in quality improvement. She has been involved in HealthPartners participation in the Pursuing Perfection initiative, led by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Her interests include embedding care improvement initiatives and technology into daily operations to support practice efficiencies and improved patient outcomes. She is an Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement board member.
Doug Bonacum, MBA, CSP, CPHQ, CPHRM, Vice President, Safety Management, Kaiser Permanente, is responsible for patient safety and risk management and environmental health. Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente, he was Environmental, Health and Safety Manager for two large manufacturing facilities of Tyco/North American Printed Circuits in Connecticut. His previous experience also includes eight years of active duty in the US Submarine Force, where he was responsible for weapons and ship safety as well as nuclear power plant operations. Mr. Bonacum has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire, an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Certificate in Healthcare Management from the University of San Francisco.
Frank A. Federico, RPh, Executive Director, Strategic Partners, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), works in the areas of patient safety, application of reliability principles in health care, preventing surgical complications, and Idealized Design of Perinatal Care. He is faculty for the IHI Patient Safety Officer Executive Development Program and previously co-chaired several IHI Patient Safety Collaboratives. Mr. Federico coaches teams and lectures extensively, nationally and internationally, on patient safety. He is author of a book chapter and several articles on patient safety, and an executive producer of "First, Do No Harm, Part 2: Taking the Lead." Previously, he was Program Director of the Office Practice Evaluation Program and a Loss Prevention/Patient Safety Specialist at Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Affiliated Institutions, and Director of Pharmacy at Children's Hospital, Boston.
Jacquelyn Hunt, RPh, PharmD, MS, Executive Director of Quality and Care Improvement, Providence Health and Services, is also a 2008-09 George W. Merck Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. In her role at Providence Health, Dr. Hunt has leveraged health IT systems to create innovative health care delivery models to achieve better health, quality, and cost outcomes. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy from University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, where she also completed a two-year residency in Pharmacotherapy and Ambulatory Medicine. She later received a Master of Science in Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis from the University of Michigan.
Roger K. Resar, MD, Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, has contributed to the development and national spread of key safety and improvement strategies such as medication reconciliation, use of the Trigger Tool methodology to measure adverse events, the development of "bundle science," and the use of reliability concepts in health care. Dr. Resar serves as faculty for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, where he also participates on innovation teams to create change concepts, design testing in prototype sites, and teach these innovations.
William Strull, MD, is Medical Director for Patient Safety and the Medical Directors' Quality Review at The Permanente Federation. He has practiced primary care and internal medicine at Kaiser Permanente (KP) San Francisco since 1984, with a focus on caring for patients with HIV disease and on health maintenance and disease prevention. From 1997-2007 Dr. Strull served as Assistant Physician-in-Chief for Patient Safety, Quality, Risk, and Physician Human Resources at Kaiser San Francisco. He is a certified IRB professional and has chaired the IRB-biomedical panel for KP Northern California since 2001. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and completed his residency in internal medicine/primary care at University of California, San Francisco, followed by a two-year RWJ fellowship in health policy/medical ethics at UCSF and Stanford.
