Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security

More Than 1,000 Preventable Deaths a Day Is Too Many: The Need to Improve Patient Safety

Date: Thursday, July 17th, 2014

Time: 10:00am

Location: 430 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Panel I

John James, PhD

Founder

Patient Safety America

Houston, TX

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Ashish Jha, MD, MPH

Professor of Health Policy and Management

Harvard School of Public Health

Boston, MA

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Tejal Gandhi, MD, MPH

President, National Patient Safety Foundation; Associate Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

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Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD

Senior Vice President for Patient Safety and Quality and Director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Baltimore, MD

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Joanne Disch, PhD, RN

Professor ad Honorem

University of Minnesota School of Nursing

Minneapolis, MN

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Lisa McGiffert

Director

Safe Patient Project, Consumers Union

Austin, TX

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