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 listeners 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.        

Frank A. Federico, RPh, Director, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, works in the areas of patient safety, application of reliability principles in health care, and perinatal care. He is faculty for the IHI Patient Safety Officer Executive Training Program, and previously co-chaired a number of Patient Safety Collaboratives. Prior to joining IHI, Mr. Federico was the 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. He is one of the Executive Producers of "First, Do No Harm, Part 2: Taking the Lead."

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 in innovation teams to create change concepts, design testing in prototype sites, and teaching these innovations. Previously he was Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine and Change Agent for Luther Midelfort and Mayo Foundation.