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Terry P. Clemmer, MD, Director of Critical Care Medicine, LDS Hospital, is also Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City. He is currently Medical Director of LDS Hospital MSICU and the Medical Lead over Intermountain Healthcare's Intensive Medicine Clinical Program Critical Care Team. An active researcher, he has over 100 scientific publications and is a recognized national and international speaker in critical care, medical informatics, and standardization of care and quality improvement. Dr. Clemmer has been a faculty member for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Adult ICU Breakthrough Series Collaboratives, the Idealized Design of the ICU project, the IMPACT network, and he co-chaired the Hospital Redesign Summit.

Diane Jacobsen, MPH, CPHQ, Director Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is currently directing the Learning and Innovation Community on Improving Flow Through Acute Care Settings and serves as faculty for IHI’s reducing mortality content.  She is also IHI content lead and improvement advisor for the California Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Initiative (CHAIPI).  Ms. Jacobsen has been involved with IHI since 2002 as a director for IHI’s Reducing Surgical Complications and Reducing Hospital Mortality Rates (HSMR), co-director of IHI’s Spread Initiative and faculty for the 100,00 0 and 5 million lives campaigns.  She is an epidemiologist with more than 20 years experience in quality improvement, risk management and infection control in specialty, academic and community hospitals.

Sean R. Townsend, MD, is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (appointment pending) in Worcester, Massachusetts and faculty member in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center. Previously, Dr. Townsend was Associate Director of Critical Care at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, RI and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brown University Medical School. He has been faculty advisor to IHI’s 100K Lives Campaign and 5Million Lives Campaign for ventilator associated pneumonia and catheter related blood stream infections initiatives. In addition, Dr. Townsend served as core faculty in IHI’s Designing for Reliability in Clinical Processes Learning and Innovation Community. For the last 4 years he has lead IHI’s work on sepsis serving on IHI’s Improving Outcomes for High-Risk and Critically Ill Patients Learning and Innovation Community. He serves on the executive committee of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) and is an author of the 2008 SSC International Guidelines on the Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock and authored the manual Implementing the Surviving Sepsis Campaign published by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). The SCCM has nominated him to serve as their representative to the National Quality Forum's Advisory Committee on Patient Safety. Dr. Townsend graduated from the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine and he is presently completing a masters degree at the Harvard University School of Public Health.