Erin Graydon Baker, MS, RRT, CPPS is a retired Patient Safety and Risk Management Professional. She is a registered respiratory therapist with 20 years of clinical experience. She transitioned from her position as Director for Respiratory Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston to begin a career in Patient Safety in 1999 as the Education Director for the Boston Center for Medical Simulation. After 3 years in teaching medical personnel about medical errors at the Simulation Center, Erin continued her work in Patient Safety as the Director for Patient Safety at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and then as Program Director for Patient Safety across the Partners Hospital System. After moving to Maine, she spent a year as the lead for Quality and Patient Safety at York Hospital and several years as Director for Risk Management and Patient Safety at Maine Medical Center. In 2019, she joined MaineHealth Integrated Quality and Safety Department as the Clinical Risk Manager to help drive safety and mitigate risk throughout the MaineHealth system. She retired from this role in December of 2022 but remains as faculty for the IHI and member Emeritus in the Northern New England Society for Risk Management. She has her Respiratory Therapy degree from Northeastern University and her graduate degree in Training and Human Resource Development from Lesley University. Erin participated with 15 other Patient Safety Professionals from across the country in writing the content for the Certification for Professionals in Patient Safety offered by the National Patient Safety Foundation. Erin completed the Advisory Board Fellowship in 2019. She also holds a Lean/6 Sigma Green Belt.

Jonathan Cohen, MD, MS, FASA, CPPS is an Associate Member in the Department of Anesthesiology at Moffitt Cancer Center. He is board-certified in both anesthesiology and critical care medicine and holds a Master of Science degree in Patient Safety Leadership. He has been the patient safety officer of the anesthesiology department since 2012 and has led several safety initiatives aimed at improving the response to crisis events in the operating room, improving communication between members of the anesthesia care team, and improving the treatment of opioid overdose. Dr. Cohen has been the recipient of Moffitt’s Excellence in Safety Award for two consecutive years. He has been an invited speaker on the topics of patient safety and naloxone administration at several national meetings, including the annual meetings of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS), and the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF).  Dr. Cohen is currently a member of the ASA Patient Safety Editorial Board and the ASA Committee on Patient Safety and Education and serves as a faculty member of the Patient Safety Leadership Graduate Program at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Sheri Herner, PharmD, MHSA, BCPS, FCCP, CPPS is a Medication Safety and Quality Coordinator at Kaiser Permanente Colorado, and she supports patient safety initiatives across the Kaiser Permanente program. She received her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from the University of Toledo, completed a Family Medicine Specialty Pharmacy Residency at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, and earned a Master of Science in Health Services Administration and a graduate certificate in Quality and Patient Safety from Regis University. Dr. Herner also holds a Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma methodology. She possesses faculty appointments at the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Regis University School of Pharmacy. She has practiced in academic, ambulatory care, and inpatient settings. Dr. Herner’s areas of interest include culture of safety, safety event reporting, and process improvement.  She has published peer-reviewed articles and presented on topics related to patient safety, risk management, safety culture, clinical informatics, and medication safety.