Our leaders look to us to spread the importance of changing the quality of care for our patients. On October 22nd, we held two national webcasts to discuss the first opportunity for all Chapters to unite for a common cause, help spread the WHO Safe Surgery Checklist, and work to implement, measure, or raise awareness of its use.
Watch the recording of the LIVE webcast with Don Berwick, MD, MPH, and Atul Gawande, MD, MPH.
Or, watch their keynotes on YouTube: Don Berwick Atul Gawande
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About the speakers:
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, is President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), is one of the nation's leading authorities on health care quality and improvement. He is also Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School, and Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. In 2005, he was appointed “Honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire” by the Queen of England in honor of his work with the British National Health Service. Dr. Berwick is author of numerous articles and the books Curing Health Care and Escape Fire.
Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, FACS, is a faculty surgeon member of Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, associate professor at Harvard University, and a writer for the New Yorker magazine. He received his BAS from Stanford University, MA (in politics, philosophy, and economics) from Oxford University, MD from Harvard Medical School, and MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. He served as a senior health policy advisor in the Clinton presidential campaign and White House from 1992 to 1993. He is the author of two New York Times Bestsellers, Complications and Better.
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