Our ultimate goal is to get to ZERO preventable patient deaths!
Vision: ZERO preventable patient deaths by 2030
Mission: Focusing to eliminate preventable harm and death in healthcare across the world by creating a sense of urgency and unifying humanity.
Prioritizing safety with patients at the center
Promoting dignity, compassion, and respect in healthcare
Aligning everyone who influences or is touched by healthcare
Promoting transparency
Realigning incentives to achieve safer care
Informing caregivers, patients and families about patient safety
Identifying the preventable causes of patient harm and death, and then create and freely share actionable solutions (Actionable Patient Safety Solutions) to mitigate them.
Driving the implementation of Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS)
Asking healthcare technology companies to share data to create a Patient Data Super Highway
Institute of Medicine releases report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, claims that as many as 98,000 people are dying in hospitals due to medical errors each year. Over the next decade, Founder Joe Kiani becomes passionate about how to significantly reduce this number.
November 2010
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) publishes a report revealing the number of Medicare beneficiaries who experiences preventable deaths reaches 180,000.
June 2012
Joe Kiani decides that he has to do something to help with the patient safety problem. He decides to create and hold the Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit in hopes to unify the healthcare ecosystem and come up with an action and commitment oriented approach to eliminate preventable deaths. Joe Kiani and President Bill Clinton travel to Africa and discuss the problem in June 2012 during their travel. President Clinton commits to help Joe in the mission to achieve ZERO preventable deaths. A series of brainstorms with luminaries like Dr. Peter Pronovost, helps determine which patient safety challenges to address first. The Masimo Foundation for Ethics, Innovation and Competition in Healthcare becomes the Founding Sponsor of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation.
January 2013
Inaugural Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit is sold out and draws in over 300 attendees. Nine Healthcare Technology Companies sign the Open Data Pledge, at the Summit. Several hospitals make a commitment to zero. Seven Guiding Principles are established and announced at the Summit. The first 9 healthcare technology companies sign the Open Data Pledge: Cercacor, Cerner, Dräger, GE Healthcare, Masimo, Philips, Surgicount, Smiths Medical, ZOLL. Intermountain Healthcare becomes the first hospital to make a commitment to ZERO preventable deaths at the evening break.
April 2013
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation becomes a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
September 2013
Chairman Tom Harkin holds the first Senate Hearing on patient safety at the behest of Patient Safety Movement Foundation. The Patient Safety Movement’s goal of zero preventable deaths is announced at the Clinton Global Initiative by Founder and Chairman, Joe Kiani.
January 2014
One plus 601 lives saved by committed hospitals. Hospitals in Canada and Lithuania make committments, becoming as first international organizations to join.
January 2015
Foundation announces one plus 6,411 lives saved through commitments made by healthcare organizations and hospitals across the world.
October 2015
Former President Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn Carter demonstrate their support for the Foundation’s mission of ZERO preventable hospital deaths. The top three institutions that saved the most lives went on a once in a lifetime fishing trip with President Carter and his wife.
January 2016
Formerly known as the Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit is renamed the World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit due to global traction by committed organizations. Foundation announces one plus 24,642 lives saved.
August 2016
After witnessing the potential for numerous alignments across associations, professional societies and non-profits the Foundation forms an opportunity to affiliate, calling these groups Committed Partners.
November 2016
Medtronic signs the Open Data Pledge and also becomes a Benefactor, granting the Foundation $1M per year, through 2020. At this point, over 70 companies have signed PSMF data share pledge and over 50 have signed the CMS data share pledge that PSMF helped CMS create.
February 2017
President, Bill Clinton, appointed Global Chair at the 5th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. Foundation announces one plus 69,518 lives saved.
February 2018
The World Patient Safety, Science & Technology’s 6th Annual event is held for the first time outside of California, in London, United Kingdom and brings together stakeholders from 25 countries. The Foundation announces 81,533 lives saved by committed hospitals operating in 44 countries worldwide.
January 2019
The 7th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit was held in Huntington Beach, California. The Foundation announced that 90,146 lives were saved by committed hospitals across 46 countries in 2018. In total, since 2012, 273,077 lives have been saved since the Foundation started.
December 2020
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation hopes to achieve ZERO preventable deaths by 2020.
When the 1999 report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System was released by the Institute of Medicine, it was the first time the impact and consequences of medical errors were quantified. The report generated a sort of enlightenment that led many like-minded people to form organizations to combat medical errors and hospitals to begin implementing processes to reduce harm. Joe Kiani, Founder, and Chairman of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, floored by the alarming statistic that 98,000 Americans were dying from preventable causes in hospitals, began to ask questions and track what was being done in the United States to reduce these unnecessary deaths. In November 2010, over a decade later, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a report which revealed that the number of Medicare beneficiaries who had experienced an event that contributed to their death had reached 180,000. Kiani realized the problem was not getting better, rather it was growing rapidly. Something needed to be done. Joe continued to hear about countless families, like Rory Staunton and Leah Coufal’s families, who lost their lives under preventable circumstances. These stories helped fuel the mission of ZERO preventable deaths, a bold but necessary goal that the Foundation believes in wholeheartedly because ONE preventable patient death is one too many. In 2012, tired of general inaction and apathy, Kiani had identified an immediate need to bring all stakeholders across the continuum of care together to take action, thus forming the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation convened the first annual Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit in 2013. The Summit brought together the world’s leading clinicians, hospital CEOs, patient advocates and government leaders to identify primary patient safety challenges and provide tested solutions called Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS). Hospital attendees made formal commitments to implement processes to reduce preventable deaths in their hospitals, and healthcare technology companies signed the Open Data Pledge to share data for the sake of patient safety. In January 2019, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation held its 7th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit and announced over 90,146 lives saved because of commitments made by over 4,710 partnered hospitals across 50 countries. This announcement showcased how far we’ve come, and how much further we must go to reach ZERO preventable deaths.
Our Impact
4710
Hospitals committed to ZERO Preventable Deaths
90146
Lives saved annually by committed hospitals*
*Numbers are self-reported
89
Healthcare technology companies that have signed the Open Data Pledge
Board of Directors
Diverse in professional background but united by a shared mission, our Board of Directors is comprised of leaders in health technology, public policy, healthcare delivery, information technology, safety innovation, and patient advocacy. View our Conflicts of Interest and Disclosure Policy.
Founder, Patient Safety Movement Foundation; Chairman & CEO of Masimo
Joe Kiani is responsible for creating the Patient Safety Movement Foundation & Coalition and the Patient Safety Science & Technology Summit. Mr. Kiani founded the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) in 2013 with a mission to reduce the more than 200,000 preventable patient deaths that occur in U.S. hospitals every year. Under Mr. Kiani’s leadership, the Patient Safety Movement held the first Patient Safety Science & Technology Summit in January 2013 with President Clinton as the keynote speaker. Mr. Kiani has convened hundreds of leading clinicians, hospital CEOs, and medical technology CEOs from around the globe and at this Summit, launched an aggressive goal – ZERO patient deaths by 2020.
The Foundation is breaking down the silos between hospitals, medical technology companies, doctors, engineers and families of patients who have died needlessly. The mission of the PSMF is to: 1) Unify the healthcare ecosystem 2) Identify the challenges that are killing patients to create actionable solutions 3) Ask hospitals to implement Actionable Patient Safety Solutions 4) Promote transparency 5) Ask med tech companies to share the data their devices generate to create a Patient Data Super Highway and help identify at-risk patients 6) Correct misaligned incentives, and 7) Promote love and patient dignity.
As the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Masimo Corporation, a global medical technology innovator, Mr. Kiani has been a beacon for patient safety and innovation in healthcare for more than 20 years. Convinced that the use of adaptive signal processing could solve the problems of motion artifact and signal noise that plagued pulse oximetry–widely recognized as the 5th vital sign–he founded Masimo in 1989 to improve the accuracy of noninvasive patient monitoring.
Under his leadership, Masimo has grown from a “garage start up” into a successful publicly traded company (NASDAQ: MASI) employing more than 3,000 people worldwide and providing its market-leading Masimo SET® Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry technology to leading OEM patient monitoring manufacturers. Today, Masimo is an innovative powerhouse delivering key noninvasive medical breakthroughs, including: Masimo rainbow Pulse COOximetry™–the first noninvasive blood constituent monitoring platform to measure multiple blood constituents that previously required invasive procedures and help reduce risky blood transfusions.
Mr. Kiani’s dream of transforming patient care thrives today as he works with legislators in Washington, D.C., to affect public policy that supports innovation and promotes good healthcare decisions. In 2010, he created the Masimo Foundation for Ethics, Innovation and Competition in Healthcare to encourage and promote activities, programs, and research opportunities that improve patient safety and deliver advanced healthcare worldwide—fostering access to innovative medical solutions for those who may not otherwise benefit from their lifesaving capabilities. In 2011 he founded the Masimo Political Action Committee to spotlight the important issues that will shape healthcare policy.
Mr. Kiani has won many awards, including the Ernst & Young National Entrepreneur of The Year 2012 Life Sciences Award Winner.
Mr. Kiani believes in turning yesterday’s impossibilities into tomorrow’s possibilities and challenging the status quo. This is exactly what he and his company, Masimo, have done and are continuing to do, and his passion is to share this insight, knowledge, and the indomitable spirit of a true innovator to improve healthcare for Americans and patients around the world.
Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology, University of Arizona; Chief Science Officer, Masimo Corporation; Health Sciences Clinical Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Dr. Barker received his B.S. in Physics from Harvey Mudd College in 1967, his PhD in Aeronautical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1972, and his MD from the University of Miami in 1981. He has reached the rank of tenured professor in both engineering (UCLA) and anesthesiology (UC Irvine, University of Arizona). He chaired the Department of Anesthesiology at UC Irvine from 1990 to 1995, and then at the University of Arizona from 1995 to 2013. He has published over 200 scholarly works, including 15 textbook chapters. Dr. Barker has served as president of the national organization of anesthesiology department chairs (AAPD) and of the Society for Technology in Anesthesia (STA), senior oral examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiology, and Section Editor for Technology for the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia.
During his 18-year tenure as anesthesiology chair at the University of Arizona, Dr. Barker was active in a number of governance roles outside of his department. He served as the hospital Director of Perioperative Services from 1996 through 2000. He was Chair of the Council of Clinical Department Heads from 2000 through 2003, and then chair of the clinical department heads working group. He served seven years as the American Society of Anesthesiologists Director for Academic Anesthesiology, representing all university anesthesiology departments at the ASA. Dr. Barker has been a productive academician, and has also participated actively in governance and administration at local, state, and national levels. He is now Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology at the University of Arizona, and Chief Science Officer for Masimo Corporation.
In November 2015, Dr. Barker received the Lifetime Achievement Award from IAMPOV (Innovations and Applications of Monitoring Perfusion, Oxygenation, and Ventilation), “for championing the development of vitally important monitoring technologies and associated testing.” In January 2016, he received the J.S. Gravenstein Award from the Society for Technology in Anesthesia, “for his visionary understanding of the role of technology in anesthesia care and lifetime commitment to patient safety.” In April 2016, he received the “Distinguished Alumni Award” from Harvey Mudd College.
Vice President; Quality, Clinical Excellence & Regulatory Services, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plan, Northern California
Robin Betts is a leader in clinical innovation and the implementation of safety improvement initiatives and has dedicated her professional life to patient safety, quality, and high reliability systems to make lives better. She has had a distinguished 35-year health care career, practicing as a nurse for 17 years.
As Vice President for Quality, Clinical Effectiveness & Regulatory Services for Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Robin helps further advance Kaiser Permanente’s nation-leading excellence in quality and patient safety, and oversees health plan and hospital regulatory functions, including compliance, licensing, and member grievances.
Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente, Robin served as Assistant Vice President of Quality and Patient Safety for Intermountain Healthcare – a non-profit health system of 22 hospitals, 185 outpatient clinics, a medical group, and an affiliated health insurance company – in Utah and Idaho. There, she set the vision for patient safety and quality in pursuit of clinical and quality excellence. In 2013, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation awarded Robin with its Humanitarian Award that recognizes leaders from around the world who have made significant progress in saving lives from preventable medical harm.
Robin also has a strong background in health care information technology. She spent almost two decades in clinical informatics and patient safety leadership positions – most notably at Universal Health Services, as the Corporate Director of Information Technology, and at Valley Health System as an Associate Administrator leading implementation of evidence-based clinical care programs.
Robin is a board member of the international Patient Safety Movement Foundation, and an advisory board member of the Weber State University Masters in Healthcare Administration program. She is also an adjunct professor at Weber State University in Utah, where she teaches quality and risk management in health care in its MHA program.
Robin holds is a registered nurse with a BS in Information Technology and an MBA in Health Care Management from Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia.
Alicia Cole had been a successful working actress whose only experience with healthcare was playing doctors on TV. All that changed, however, when she learned in 2006 that she needed a “routine” procedure to remove two small uterine fibroids. Originally, she was scheduled to be home in two days, but that never took place. She left the operating room with a fever, nausea, and pain, and her condition declined from there.
Five days later, during the evening dressing check, Alicia’s mother noticed a small black dot near the incision. In just over an hour, the dot morphed into a quarter-sized pustule. Right then and there, the doctor and Alicia’s mother performed a bedside surgical procedure, cutting open her abdomen and draining the toxic fluid. A terrified Alicia would eventually be diagnosed with multiple hospital-acquired infections including necrotizing fasciitis.
Alicia’s near-fatal case of flesh-eating disease turned her entire midsection into something out of a horror movie and her two-day hospital stay turned into: one month in ICU, two months in the hospital, six additional surgeries, near amputation of her leg, a year and two months of twice-a-day home health care for dressing changes, five months of daily hyperbaric oxygen chamber treatments and three years of treatment at a wound care center for an open, draining abdomen. Six years later, she is still in physical therapy and undergoing pelvic floor rehabilitation.
Alicia’s hospital was later cited for violation of five state laws and ten federal laws for patient safety, infection control, and unsanitary conditions in their operating rooms. An ICU nurse later shared that Alicia was his third patient with NF disease and the only one to survive.
With a talk-to-type program from her bed, Alicia began to share her experience via emails, blogs and social media to educate others. In 2008, she and her parents founded the Alliance for Safety Awareness for Patients (ASAP) as an education and awareness organization. Alicia became co-sponsor of California Senate Bill 158, a measure that helps ensure that hospitals maintain a sanitary environment and mandates public reporting of hospital-acquired infection rates, it also established training programs for hospital infection control professionals. The bill was signed into law in September 2008.
Alicia was also appointed to the state HAI Advisory Committee and has worked tirelessly on the Education and Public Reporting Subcommittee. This year, she also became a member of the State of Wyoming HAI Advisory Group and Chair of the Engagement Committee. She has worked with the Consumers Union Safe Patient Project, lobbied on Capitol Hill, presented at the CMS QualityNet Conference, and was among the inaugural class of patient advocates invited to contribute at the IHI National Quality Forum. All this between making her weekly doctor appointments and physical therapy!
Alicia is also currently a graduate certificate candidate in the Healthcare Management & Leadership Program at UCLA and consulted on the development of the school’s new Patient Advocate Program.
Dr Davila became to be Regional Network Chair PSMF in Mexico since 2016. Promoting culture of safety and affiliation of many prestigious hospitals private and public, and establishing a close relationship with Institutions of Federal Government and Healthcare and Academic Organizations like Academy of Surgery, Mr. Carlos Slim Foundation, Faculty of Medicine of National University of Mexico etc.. In 2017 he asked with sponsors for financial support inviting Mexican Delegation coming to PSMF Summit with 20 colleagues, physicians and CEO´s of different Hospitals as well in London Summit with 14 colleagues and also in 2019 with 7 colleagues, one of them of the new Mexican Federal Government. He has visiting around the Mexican Republic Managers, CEO´s, Physicians, Nurses and multidisciplinary team in Healthcare Services, Secretaries of Health and also Governors of some States promoting PSMF and making Commitments and Affiliations. Also he has participations in different International Conferences like Chile, Colombia, Brasil, Dubai etc…promoting PSMF and joining efforts in Mexico with Federal Government Authorities including the current administration started last December.
Nomination as Member of the new Scientific and Diplomatic Council for Research, Innovation and Technology of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Federal Government.
Between December 2012 to October 2015 became to be Medical Director of Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) ; That is a huge Institution in Healthcare Services in Mexico with approximately 2000 Medical Units since first level to High Speciality, 73,000 Physicians, 119,000 Nurses. Their projects and programmes were in that time linked to improve a better quality of medical services supporting healthy financial status of the Institution, continuing medical education and academic interchanging with prestigious national and international Institutions, special emphasis in certification of medical units. Before in IMSS between 2007/2010 became to be Head of Medical Education, Research and Health Public Policy’s.
He joined at the Mexican Academy of Surgery in 2015, coming as Member of Executive Committee (2017/2018-2018/2020).
Advisor of Ex Secretary of Health Dr. Julio Frenk. (2005/2006).( Dr. Frenk has been changed the Law in order to create Social and Health Protection Commission; Former Dean of Public Health School in Harvard, and Current President of the University of Miami). Also Dr. Davila has been Private Chair Staff Office Ex Secretary of Health Dr. Jose Angel Cordova (2011).( Dr. Cordova was Secretary when Flu Pandemia started in México in 2009.).
At Social Security and Social Services for Federal Employees in Mexico (ISSSTE), got his training in Craniomaxillofaciall Surgery with specific procedures in Congenital Deformities and Facial Trauma; publishing as coauthor the Chapter “Oblique Modified Lefort III Osteotomy” at Modern Practice in Orthognatic and Reconstructive Surgery with Dr. Willian H. Bell prestigious Surgeon.; in his training he got rotation in Boston University, visit as speaker and surgical procedures in Parkland with Profr. William H. Bell and Robert V. Walker, in Gottingen, Germany with Profr. Hans Luhr; Cambridge, France, Spain, Southampton, Israel, Japan, Brasil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Panamá, Uruguay. In the 90´s President of Mexican Association and College of Maxillofacial Surgery, and fellow of The International Association of this specialty and former member of two committees at the Executive Committees.
In 80´s and 90´s in ISSSTE his background also was as Head Department in his specialty, Head of Medical Education and Research in one of the most important Hospitals, Medical Director of two Hospital. In 2000/2005 Regulation Healthcare Services Chair, Prevention and Healthcare Promoting Services Chair and other professional and academic activities.
Senior Advisor on Patient Safety Policy and Leadership, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London
Dr Mike Durkin, MBBS, FRCA, DSc (Hon) was the NHS National Director of Patient Safety from 2012-2017. He holds Visiting Professor appointments in Patient Safety at Imperial College London and the University of the West of England and is currently the Senior Advisor on Patient Safety Policy and Leadership at the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College. He is an Associate Non-Executive Director at NHS Resolution. He qualified in Medicine at The Middlesex Hospital Medical School and has held clinical, research and teaching appointments in cardiovascular anaesthesia and critical care in London, Bristol and Yale Universities. He started his 25 year medical management and leadership career as Executive Medical Director at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in 1993 and held successive Executive Medical Director positions for Strategic Authorities between 2002-2012 culminating as the Medical Director of the NHS across the South of England supporting a population of 16M. He has led performance and clinical governance reviews in the UK and overseas. He was the UK Department of Health National Clinical Director for Venous Thrombo-Embolism, an appointed Expert by the International Society for Quality in Healthcare and on the core team for the Patient Safety Campaign for England. He led the National Patient Safety Programme for England developing the 15 Patient Safety Collaboratives across England and the Q Fellowship to build a community of 5000 quality improvers in partnership with The Health Foundation. He continues to support international development of patient safety systems with the World Health Organisation. He convened the Berwick Advisory Board in 2013 to advise on creating conditions to improve the safety of patients in England and in 2015 he was commissioned by the Secretary of State for Health to Chair the Expert Advisory Group to advise on the establishment of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch. He led the establishment of Ministerial Inter-Governmental Summits on Patient Safety which have now been held in the UK (2016) and Germany (2017), and to be held in Japan in 2018. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the West of England and in 2017 he was awarded the highest accolade of the Royal College of Physicians of London for services to Patient Safety, their Honorary Fellowship. He is Chair of the Management Board of NICE National Clinical Guideline Centre and sits on national and international research, policy and patient safety Advisory Boards.
Omar Ishrak has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Medtronic since June 2011. Medtronic is the world’s leading medical technology company, with $30 billion in annual revenue, and operations reaching more than 150 countries worldwide. Medtronic offers technologies and solutions to treat a wide range of medical conditions, including cardiac and vascular diseases, respiratory, neurological and spinal conditions, diabetes, and more. The Medtronic Mission is to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for millions of people around the world.
Since joining Medtronic, Omar has focused the company on three core strategies of Therapy Innovation, Economic Value and Globalization. These three strategies form the basis for Medtronic’s efforts to partner with its customers to drive high quality patient outcomes, expand patient access to healthcare, and lower costs in healthcare systems around the world. In 2014, Omar engineered the acquisition of Covidien, a $10 billion global manufacturer of surgical products and supplies. The acquisition of Covidien was the largest medical technology acquisition in the history of the industry.
Omar joined Medtronic from General Electric Company, where he spent 16 years, most recently as President and CEO of GE Healthcare Systems, a $12 billion division of GE Healthcare, with a broad portfolio of diagnostic, imaging, patient monitoring and life support systems. Omar also served as an Officer and a Senior Vice President of GE. Earlier in his career, Omar amassed 13 years of technology development and business management experience, holding leadership positions at Diasonics/Vingmed, and various product development and engineering positions at Philips Ultrasound.
He grew up in Bangladesh, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of London, King’s College. He is also a Fellow of King’s College.
Omar is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Health and Healthcare Community, which includes global leaders focused on shaping the future of health and healthcare. Key areas of focus for this community include promoting healthy behaviors, better management of future pandemics/epidemics, increasing global access to care, and increasing value in healthcare systems to advance healthcare delivery and improve patient outcomes.
Omar sits on the Board of Directors of Intel, a global technology company with more than $59 billion in annual revenue. Omar is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Asia Society, the leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context. He is also a member of the Minnesota Public Radio Board of Trustees.
Chief Executive Officer, Patient Safety Movement Foundation and Executive Director, MedStar Institute for Quality and Safety
David Mayer, MD is executive director of the MedStar Institute for Quality & Safety (MIQS). In this role, Dr. Mayer leads specific quality and safety programs in support of discovery, learning, and the application of innovative methods to operational clinical challenges.
Prior to his appointment as executive director, MIQS Dr. Mayer served for over six years as vice president, quality and safety for MedStar Health, overseeing the infrastructure for clinical quality and its operational efficiency for MedStar and each of its entities. Dr. Mayer also designs and directs systemwide activity for patient safety and risk reduction programs.
Dr. Mayer joined MedStar from the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago, Ill. Over the course of 10 years, he held numerous roles including co-executive director of the UIC Institute for Patient Safety Excellence, director of UIC Masters of Science Patient Safety Leadership Program, associate dean for Education, and associate chief medical officer for Quality and Safety Graduate Medical Education. Concurrent with his other roles, he served as vice chair for Quality and Safety for the Department of Anesthesiology, where he was an associate professor of Anesthesiology and director of Cardiac Anesthesiology. Dr. Mayer also founded and has led the Annual Telluride International Patient Safety Roundtable and Patient Safety Medical Student Summer Camp for the last thirteen years.
In addition, he has significant experience in the private sector as director of Medical Affairs of the Hospital Products Division of Abbott Laboratories and was president and founder of Esurg Corporation.
Dr. Mayer attended the University of Illinois at Chicago for both his undergraduate and medical degrees. He completed his internship and residency at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in cardiac anesthesia. Additionally, he co-produced the patient safety educational film series titled “The Faces of Medical Error…From Tears to Transparency,” which won numerous awards including the prestigious Aegis Film Society Top Short Documentary Award.
Most recently, Dr. Mayer was listed on the Becker’s Hospital Review 2017 and 2018 lists of Top 50 people leading patient safety. He was one of four medical professionals presented with the 2017 Humanitarian Award from the Patient Safety Movement Foundation for his lifesaving achievements in patient safety. He was selected by the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) as an International Quality and Safety Expert, has been presented with the 2013 Founders’ Award from the American College of Medical Quality, the University of Illinois/American Association of Medical Colleges Humanism in Medicine Award for his commitment to teaching, service and patient advocacy, and was recognized by the Institute of Medicine in Chicago in 2010 with the Sprague Patient Safety Award.
He regularly presents and writes on topics related to quality and patient safety, and has received grant funding from the United States Department of Education, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation.
President, World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists
Dr Mellin-Olsen is cand. med. from the University of Trondheim, Norway, from 1982. In 1987, she was the first Norwegian female physician to complete her (voluntary) military services, which she did by serving for the UNIFIL Forces in South Lebanon. She got involved in patient safety initiatives during her residence training in Trondheim University Hospital where she got her specialty in 1992. She has worked for the Red Cross in Pakistan and Serbia. She was the medical director for Europe, Middle East and Africa for MedAire, Inc, based in Tampe, AZ, for ten years, dealing with remote medical advice, including for aviation and maritime. Since 2002, she has held a full time clinical post in Baerum Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
Both in her home country and internationally, Jannicke is known for her dedication to organizational work. She has been active in the Veterans’ organization and in national and international medical organisations. During her term in the European Board of Anaesthesiology, she chaired the Patient Safety and Quality Committee before becoming president. During her presidency, she was the driving force for the Helsinki Declaration on Patient Safety in Anaesthesiology, which was launched in 2010. Since then, this Declaration has been signed and supported in all regions of the world and has become the industry standard. She is currently the secretary of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and the president elect of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists. In her home country, she is known as a promoter of a non-punitive approach to medical errors, according to the model of the NTSBs. She is particularly committed to human factors, communication and involvement of patients, relatives and clinical staff as experts to improve patient safety.
Jannicke’s publication list mainly contains articles and book chapters related to patient safety, edication and manpower. She is a well-known speaker at anaesthesiology meetings globally and holds several honorary positions.
Chief Supply Chain Officer, Network Vice President University of Vermont Health Network
Miceli has set the vision and mission for the University of Vermont Medical Center Supply Chain operation, ranked #1 and #2 by the University Health System Consortium/Vizient in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. The effectiveness of the supply chain has supported the clinical mission and operations of the University of Vermont Medical Center, OneCare Vermont, and the University of Vermont Health Network
Miceli has also served as the Vice President of Information Systems for the University of Vermont Medical Center as well as the CIO for the OneCare Vermont Accountable Care Organization
Key accomplishments include sponsoring the successful integration of biomedical devices with the EPIC EHR, as well as championing interoperability of key clinical applications with EPIC (McKesson PACS).
Prior to joining Fletcher Allen/University of Vermont Medical Center in 2008, Miceli held leadership positions in supply chain, biomedical engineering, and support services at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Loyola University Medical Center, The University of Chicago Hospital and Health Systems, and Partners Healthcare System in Boston. He has also served as an expert consultant in change management/turn around, cost management, and information systems.
An avid guitarist, Miceli and colleague McKenna Lee founded the musical group McKenna Lee and the Microfixers in 2010. Over the past 7 years the group has helped raise over $20k for charitable causes. He has two adult children with wife Mari, an RN and fellow patient safety advocate who designed and developed the PatientAider app that the Miceli’s donated to the Patient Safety Movement Foundation.
Chief Quality Officer for University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Executive Director, Beckwith Institute
Tami Minnier is the Chief Quality Officer for UPMC, an integrated delivery and financing system in Pittsburgh, PA. Quality, Safety and the Patient Experience is driven by the Wolff Center at UPMC. She is the Executive Director for the Beckwith Institute, a $15 million dollar foundation supporting innovation in care delivery and shared decision making.
Ms. Minnier has a passion for clinical care improvement. She has her BSN and MSN from the University of Pittsburgh; she is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Ms. Minnier has studied the Toyota Production System and Lean Manufacturing. She is a graduate of the Advanced Training Program at Intermountain Health Care and has been on faculty at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. She is the Vice-Chair of the Board of Joint Commission International/ Joint Commission Resources. She also serves as a board member of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. A nationally known speaker, Ms. Minnier has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Newsweek, The Journal of Nursing Administration, Modern Health Care, Healthcare Leaders, Reflections by Sigma Theta Tau, and many other journals. She has been noted by Becker’s as one of the 50 top experts leading the field of patient safety and top 130 women health system leaders to know in the USA in 2015. However, her proudest accomplishment is her son, Seth.
Jim Messina is arguably one of the world’s most successful political advisors. The mastermind behind President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, Jim Messina seized the reins on what Bloomberg Businessweek dubbed “the highest-wattage crash course in executive management ever undertaken”—and succeeded, earning the President another term in the White House. With the guidance of technology’s foremost leaders, Jim abandoned every step of a traditional presidential campaign and merged technology and politics in a way that was both unpredictable and unprecedented.
Jim’s strategies established the modern presidential campaign—Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt called it “the best-run campaign ever.” The American Association of Political Consultants later crowned him the Campaign Strategist of the Year (2013).
Since then he has gone on to advise Presidents and Prime Ministers on five continents including: UK’s Theresa May and David Cameron, Mexico’s Enrique Peña Nieto, Argentina’s Mauricio Macri, Italy’s Matteo Renzi and in 2016 helped Spain’s President Mariano Rajoy win a surprising re-election margin.
In 2013, Messina launched The Messina Group. In this role, Messina provides strategic consulting to businesses around the world. The firm has been involved in winning public policy campaigns on five continents. Clients include Uber, Airbnb, Google, Delta Air Lines, Hutchison Whampoa, and over 70 others.
Previously, Jim served as Deputy Chief of Staff in President Barack Obama’s White House, where he was integral to the passage of the historic health care bill, the economic stimulus act credited with saving the US economy, and the landmark repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.”
Messina continues to advise and guide Democratic candidates and organizations at all levels, as well as providing insight on news outlets such as MSNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, BBC, and others.
Jim serves on the boards of Organizing for Action (OFA), Virgin HyperloopOne, Google’s Advanced Technology Panel, Vectra.ai, Pillpack, Patient Safety Movement Foundation, LanzaTech, Hyp3r, the United States Soccer Foundation, and the Montana Land Reliance.
Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Baylor University Medical Center, and President of Baylor Scott & White Research Institute
Dr. Ramsay is Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, a position that he has held since 1989. He is also Co-Medical Director of Operating Room Services. He serves as a member of the Baylor University Medical Center Board of Trustees and is also a member of the Medical Board. He is Director of Anesthesia for the liver transplant program and has personally provided anesthesia for over 1,000 liver transplant recipients. Dr. Ramsay is Past President of the International Liver Transplantation Society. Dr. Ramsay was recently appointed as an at-large delegate to the United Network for Organ Sharing and is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Committee on Transplant Anesthesia. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of The Patient Safety Movement Foundation and serves as the Chair of the “Failure to Rescue: Post-operative Respiratory Depression” workgroup.
Dr. Ramsay is a Professor at Texas A & M Health Science Center and holds a clinical professorship in anesthesiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School as well as in the Department of Periodontics at Baylor College of Dentistry, Texas A & M University.
In addition, Dr. Ramsay is the developer of the Ramsay Sedation Scale, a measurement designed for interpreting the depth of sedation for patients in the critical care unit. This scale has been adopted around the world. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and numerous chapters in text books. He was a member of the Sedation Analgesia Guidelines Task Force of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. This group came out with new guidelines for the management of Pain, Agitation and Delirium in Adult ICU patients in January 2013.
As President of Baylor Scott & White Research Institute (BSWRI), Dr. Ramsay leads clinically relevant research efforts for Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH). Since joining the organization, he has developed a successful infrastructure that has increased the number of clinical trials from 250 to more than 2,000 active trials today. The mission of BRI is expressed in the following statement: “To improve the medical care and well-being of our community – nationally and internationally – through innovative, clinical research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health.” He executed a multimillion dollar collaboration agreement with La Roche pharmaceuticals that supports very early research projects and accelerates their completion. This was a pilot project and has now been replicated at many academic centers around the world.
Dr. Ramsay is currently involved in a number of clinical research projects for which he is the principal investigator. His current research includes the role of nitric oxide in ameliorating the reperfusion injury in liver transplantation. He also is a Principal Investigator of several NIH-funded clinical trials to improve the outcomes of trauma victims.
Chief Operating Officer, Patient Safety Movement Foundation
Ariana has been with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation since 2015 and is currently serving as Chief Operating Officer.
In her short career prior to joining the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, Ariana graduated cum laude from Loyola Marymount University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a minor in Studio Arts. She worked at the University of California, Irvine’s Institute for Immunology for one year and left her post at UCI to pursue a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in 2012, with a focus on oral immunotherapy for children with egg allergy. Ariana came back to California and spent time at the Orange County Healthcare Agency in the Health Promotion Division. She then seized the opportunity to work at Masimo Corporation, in the Fire and Emergency Medical Services sector, where she worked closely with marketing and sales to develop a Grant Assistance Program, helping Fire and EMS Departments procure devices to help them screen for carbon monoxide poisoning, among department staff and the public. Ariana volunteered at the Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s 2015 Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit and knew that she wanted to step into a leadership role to support the Foundation’s audacious mission.
Since joining the Patient Safety Movement, Ariana developed the Committed Partners opportunity for professional societies, associations, and other aligned healthcare-related organizations to work with the Movement and has helped grow the number of committed organizations to over 4,710 worldwide, spanning 51 countries.
Rachael graduated from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications in 1997 and California Western School of Law in 2002. She worked as an associate attorney at a small law firm in San Diego, CA led by a board member of a local hospital; she then began to split her time between the firm and hospital, where her desire to use her skills for the benefit of the patient was strengthened. After relocating to Burlington, VT, she was admitted to the Vermont Bar, and began working for the University of Vermont Medical Center (formerly Fletcher Allen Health Care) in the Supply Chain Services Department in January 2006. Despite moving back to California in 2012 she has proudly served Burlington, VT and surrounding communities in this capacity ever since.
Rachael has been volunteering with the Patient Safety Movement since 2014, and is currently serving on the Board of Directors as Secretary.
Micah Young has served as our Executive Vice President, Finance & Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) since October 2017. From July 2012 to September 2017, Mr. Young served as Vice President, Finance, at NuVasive, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUVA), a medical device company focused on the design, development and marketing of products for the surgical treatment of spine disorders. Prior to that time, he served as NuVasive, Inc.’s Senior Director, Finance, Global Operations, from December 2009 to July 2012. From 2002 to 2009, Mr. Young held various accounting and finance positions with Zimmer Holdings, Inc., a company focused on the design, development, manufacture and marketing of orthopedic reconstructive, spinal and trauma devices, dental implants and related surgical products. Prior to his time at Zimmer Holdings, Inc., Mr. Young was an accountant at Deloitte & Touche LLP from 2000 to 2002. He holds a Bachelor of Science, Accounting and Criminal Justice from Indiana Wesleyan University and is a certified public accountant (inactive).
Chief Executive Officer, Patient Safety Movement Foundation and Executive Director, MedStar Institute for Quality and Safety
David Mayer, MD is executive director of the MedStar Institute for Quality & Safety (MIQS). In this role, Dr. Mayer leads specific quality and safety programs in support of discovery, learning, and the application of innovative methods to operational clinical challenges.
Prior to his appointment as executive director, MIQS Dr. Mayer served for over six years as vice president, quality and safety for MedStar Health, overseeing the infrastructure for clinical quality and its operational efficiency for MedStar and each of its entities. Dr. Mayer also designs and directs systemwide activity for patient safety and risk reduction programs.
Dr. Mayer joined MedStar from the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago, Ill. Over the course of 10 years, he held numerous roles including co-executive director of the UIC Institute for Patient Safety Excellence, director of UIC Masters of Science Patient Safety Leadership Program, associate dean for Education, and associate chief medical officer for Quality and Safety Graduate Medical Education. Concurrent with his other roles, he served as vice chair for Quality and Safety for the Department of Anesthesiology, where he was an associate professor of Anesthesiology and director of Cardiac Anesthesiology. Dr. Mayer also founded and has led the Annual Telluride International Patient Safety Roundtable and Patient Safety Medical Student Summer Camp for the last thirteen years.
In addition, he has significant experience in the private sector as director of Medical Affairs of the Hospital Products Division of Abbott Laboratories and was president and founder of Esurg Corporation.
Dr. Mayer attended the University of Illinois at Chicago for both his undergraduate and medical degrees. He completed his internship and residency at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in cardiac anesthesia. Additionally, he co-produced the patient safety educational film series titled “The Faces of Medical Error…From Tears to Transparency,” which won numerous awards including the prestigious Aegis Film Society Top Short Documentary Award.
Most recently, Dr. Mayer was listed on the Becker’s Hospital Review 2017 and 2018 lists of Top 50 people leading patient safety. He was one of four medical professionals presented with the 2017 Humanitarian Award from the Patient Safety Movement Foundation for his lifesaving achievements in patient safety. He was selected by the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) as an International Quality and Safety Expert, has been presented with the 2013 Founders’ Award from the American College of Medical Quality, the University of Illinois/American Association of Medical Colleges Humanism in Medicine Award for his commitment to teaching, service and patient advocacy, and was recognized by the Institute of Medicine in Chicago in 2010 with the Sprague Patient Safety Award.
He regularly presents and writes on topics related to quality and patient safety, and has received grant funding from the United States Department of Education, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation.
Chief Operating Officer, Patient Safety Movement Foundation
Ariana has been with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation since 2015 and is currently serving as Chief Operating Officer.
In her short career prior to joining the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, Ariana graduated cum laude from Loyola Marymount University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a minor in Studio Arts. She worked at the University of California, Irvine’s Institute for Immunology for one year and left her post at UCI to pursue a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in 2012, with a focus on oral immunotherapy for children with egg allergy. Ariana came back to California and spent time at the Orange County Healthcare Agency in the Health Promotion Division. She then seized the opportunity to work at Masimo Corporation, in the Fire and Emergency Medical Services sector, where she worked closely with marketing and sales to develop a Grant Assistance Program, helping Fire and EMS Departments procure devices to help them screen for carbon monoxide poisoning, among department staff and the public. Ariana volunteered at the Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s 2015 Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit and knew that she wanted to step into a leadership role to support the Foundation’s audacious mission.
Since joining the Patient Safety Movement, Ariana developed the Committed Partners opportunity for professional societies, associations, and other aligned healthcare-related organizations to work with the Movement and has helped grow the number of committed organizations to over 4,710 worldwide, spanning 51 countries.
Chief Development Officer, Patient Safety Movement Foundation
Lauren has dedicated her career to the non-profit sector and brings over 20 years of philanthropic leadership and management experience. Lauren joined Patient Safety Movement Foundation in 2019 and is currently serving as Chief Development Officer.
Her career has been hallmarked by securing transformational gifts, leading comprehensive major gift campaigns, building strong fundraising teams, and the management of strategic efforts to identify and cultivate gifts. Lauren has successfully launched branding campaigns, corporate sponsorship programs, and secured funding through federal, state, private, and corporate sources.
Lauren earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and Sociology, and a M.B.A. from the University of Utah.
Patient Safety Movement’s mission and vision resonates deeply with Lauren and she is grateful and excited for the opportunity to further the Foundation’s work in cultivating philanthropic support.
Chief Clinical Officer, Patient Safety Movement Foundation
Dr. Donna Prosser has been in the healthcare industry for more than 30 years and is currently the Chief Clinical Officer at the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. She spent the first fifteen years of her career at the bedside and transitioned into administration after a personal experience helped her to understand just how fragmented and unsafe patient care can be. This experience ignited a passion to improve healthcare quality and safety in her that continues to burn to this day.
Prior to joining the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, Dr. Prosser worked as a healthcare consultant, helping organizations across the United States to improve quality and safety, increase patient engagement, and reduce clinician burnout. Before beginning her consulting career, she was responsible for clinical practice improvement across Martin Health System, while also functioning as Site Administrator and Chief Nursing Officer for the system’s largest hospital. She previously held administrative, education, and clinical roles at both Carteret Health Care and the Washington Hospital Center.
Dr. Prosser received a Doctorate in Nursing Practice at the University of Central Florida, a Master of Science in Nursing at Duke University, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at George Mason University. She is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, and is board certified as a Nurse Executive by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and as a Patient Advocate by the Patient Advocate Certification Board.
Director of Partnerships, Patient Safety Movement Foundation
Sarah has been with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation since 2017 and is currently serving as Director of Partnerships.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Sarah graduated from Chapman University in Orange, CA, with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies. Following graduation, she decided to further her education and received a Master of Science in Health and Strategic Communication from Chapman University with a focus on helping family caregivers reduce their psychological distress levels. After realizing her passion for the health care industry, Sarah took an opportunity to work as a Physician Recruiter so that she could help physicians of all specialties and subspecialties find their niche in the health care realm.
Sarah was told about the Foundation’s mission through a former intern and was eager to get involved in helping the Patient Safety Movement achieve ZERO preventable patient deaths.
Sarah is excited to be a part of such a collaborative and hard-working team.
Alyssa is new to Patient Safety Movement and is currently serving as Program and Event Manager. Prior to joining the Foundation, Alyssa graduated from Cal State Fullerton University, CA, with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration. During this time, she interned with a wedding planning company that turned into a permanent position shortly after. After realizing her passion for the business field, Alyssa took an opportunity to work as a trade show coordinator to further expand her knowledge in planning highly extensive, detailed events. Alyssa was told about the Foundation’s mission through a family friend and was eager to get involved in helping the Patient Safety Movement achieve ZERO preventable patient deaths. Alyssa is excited to be a part of such a patient and hard-working team.
Monica has devoted more than twenty-five years of her career to nonprofit management for causes she is deeply concerned with. She has specialized in event production, fund development, brand awareness and elevating cause marketing missions. She joined the PSMF in January 2020 to help produce the inaugural March for Patient Safety this fall, serving as Campaign Director.
Her support and passion for nonprofits has included working with AIDS Services Foundation, American Cancer Society, Special Olympics Southern California and Girl Scouts Orange County, to name a few. She has also consulted with organizations such as the Friends of the Santa Ana Zoo, Alzheimer’s Association San Diego, the Wall Las Memorias Project Los Angeles, and Family Assistance Ministries. She volunteers her expertise as a board member for the Newport Harbor High School Alumni Association and has served as Secretary since 2016.
Monica’s family has been touched by medical harm, so she feels very strongly about the mission of the PSMF. She is thrilled to become part of such a dedicated team!
Olivia is currently a junior at Chapman University in Southern California and is pursuing a double major in Health Science and a self designed major in Policy and Behavioral Studies.
Although in the nascent stages of her schooling, Olivia is active in research through Crean College on campus involving social and environmental determinants of health, specifically on food insecurity and ED visits. By working as a Department Coordinator for the COPE Health Scholar Program at St Joseph’s Hospial , in addition to her own personal experience with AML Leukemia, Olivia realized the incredible platform she had been given through these experiences. Through the COPE program, she developed a passion for working side-by-side with patients of all backgrounds and ages. She was able to hear the stories of the patients and the challenges of the healthcare providers and integrate both in working towards minimizing the number of preventable deaths in hospitals.
Upon hearing about the mission for ZERO preventable deaths by 2020, Olivia is thrilled to use all of her prior experiences in healthcare with the team at the Patient Safety Movement Foundation.
Alvin is currently a junior at the University of California-Irvine pursuing a major in business administration and minors in both political science & health informatics.
Finding a passion in both hospitality and health care, Alvin focused his studies towards health care management as his emphasis for his major. Throughout his college career, Alvin realized the major errors in the healthcare system specifically quality of care. As the healthcare industry grows, there is the problem of limited physicians who are unable to help the rising amount of patients waiting to be treated. With the imbalance of physicians compared to patients, the quality of care in the healthcare industry would be ignored. The issue that branches from the lack of quality of care is minimal education, as patients are confused sometimes what is the next step. In the US healthcare system, there are obstacles a patient must go through to find a solution that will help them in the end. Proper education and quality of care is required to improve the healthcare industry as it is ever growing.
When the opportunity came to join the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, Alvin rushed to lend a hand to the organization. As helping save a life, even if it is just one is better than having none saved at all.
Please login to your account to access PSMF's full Actionable Patient Safety Solutions. You will be able to view, download, print, or email any APSS.
If you need to reset your password, you can request a new one here.
Not Registered?
Please register for an account to access PSMF's full Actionable Patient Safety Solutions. After registering you will get immediate access to view, download, print, or email any APSS.
