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.
Allan S. Frankel, MD, is a Principal in Lotus Forum, Inc., a company dedicated to improving health care safety using evidence-based metrics and tools to enhance teamwork, facilitate improvement, and support and train health care leaders. He is on the faculty of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), where he co-chaired many IHI Collaboratives and co-developed and teaches in the IHI Patient Safety Officer program. Dr. Frankel is a lead faculty for IHI patient safety programs across the UK, including a five-year program to improve safety in all Scottish hospitals. He is on the Brigham and Women's Patient Safety Center of Excellence faculty. Dr. Frankel is the creator of Leadership WalkRounds and author of several books and articles on patient safety.
Michael Leonard, MD, Physician Leader for Patient Safety, Kaiser Permanente, leads the national Kaiser Human Factors Patient Safety effort. Prior to his current position, he served as Chief of Anesthesia, Chief of Surgical Services, and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Dr. Leonard is a cardiac anesthesiologist by training and continues to actively practice medicine. He has also worked with the University of Texas Human Factors Research Project to incorporate the human factors lessons learned in other high-risk industries into medical patient safety. Dr. Leonard has lectured widely and worked with many health care systems to improve the safety and quality of medical care.
J. Bryan Sexton, PhD, is a psychologist member of the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Health Policy and Management at The Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. He is the Director of Safety Culture Research and Practice at the Johns Hopkins Quality and Safety Research Group. He has studied teamwork and safety practices in high risk environments under funding from NASA, AHRQ, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, and the Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation. He captures the wisdom of frontline caregivers through rigorous assessments of safety culture using the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire, and has linked these assessments to subsequent clinical and operational outcomes. He has collected culture data in over 800 hospitals, in 10 countries.
