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  Joe Kiani

  Founder & Chairman, Patient Safety Movement Foundation; Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Masimo
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  Joe Kiani

  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.

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  David B. Mayer, MD

  Chief Executive Officer, Patient Safety Movement Foundation; Executive Director, MedStar Institute for Quality and Safety
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  David B. Mayer, MD

  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.

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  William C. Wilson, MD, MA

  Chief Medical Officer, UCI Health
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  William C. Wilson, MD, MA

  Chief Medical Officer, UCI Health

  Dr. William Wilson, MD, MA is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at UCI Health.  He is a clinical professor of anesthesiology, medicine and surgery.  As the CMO, Dr. Wilson has led major improvement efforts in patient safety, quality and experience.  He facilitates collaboration between physicians, nurses, and other stakeholders to enhance efficiencies and patient care outcomes.

  Dr. Wilson is an internationally recognized clinician-scientist, author and innovator.  In addition to standardizing and optimizing patient care at UCI Health, Dr. Wilson is leading efforts to expand the use of telemedicine as a tool to increase outreach to the communities we serve, and to improve the quality and safety of our health care delivery system.

  Dr. Wilson was initially recruited to UCI Health in 2013 to serve as the director of critical care services. After performing superbly in this role for approximately three years, Dr. Wilson was invited to serve as the interim CMO; and, eventually as the permanent CMO of UCI Health System.

  Prior to coming to UCI Health, Dr. Wilson was vice chairman of the department of anesthesiology and chief of critical care medicine at UC San Diego Health System. During his 20-year tenure there, Dr. Wilson served as co-director of the trauma/surgical intensive care unit, and also performed adult and pediatric cardiac anesthesia. Under his leadership and direction, four new critical care services were created and became operational at UC San Diego.

  Dr. Wilson is an innovative thinker and champion of multidisciplinary care. His diverse background includes formal training in surgery, anesthesiology, adult and pediatric cardiothoracic anesthesia and critical care medicine.  Dr. Wilson has served as editor-in-chief of four major textbooks and has authored or edited hundreds of chapters, review articles and scientific papers. He continues to be invited to speak around the world on a wide range of topics including patient safety and quality, critical care, telemedicine, amongst others.

  Dr. Wilson received his medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, He received surgical training, and completed a fellowship in critical care medicine at UC San Francisco and completed a residency in anesthesiology at UC San Diego.

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  Kim Bennion, MsHS, RRT, CHC

  System Respiratory Care Clinical Services, Administrative Director, Intermountain Healthcare
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  Kim Bennion, MsHS, RRT, CHC

  System Respiratory Care Clinical Services, Administrative Director, Intermountain Healthcare

  Kim has worked as a Registered Respiratory Therapist for over 40 years in adult, pediatric and newborn intensive care and as a certified Health Care Senior Compliance Consultant for twelve years. She has served in numerous Board positions for the Utah Society for Respiratory Care, including President. She has authored/co-authored over fifty abstract publications and was awarded the 2014 Charles W. Serby COPD Fellowship by the American Respiratory Care Foundation. Kim was awarded the Specialty Practitioner of the Year award by the American Association for Respiratory Care in 2018. She is currently serving on the Utah Division of Professional Licensing board, American Association for Respiratory Care’s Board of Directors and as the Chair of the organization’s Management Section.

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  Beth Daley Ullem, MBA

  Governance Expert and Advocate for Safety and Quality in Health Care
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  Beth Daley Ullem, MBA

  Beth Daley Ullem, MBA, is a nationally recognized governance expert and advocate for safety and quality in health care. Beth works with health system leadership teams, boards, and health care industry leaders to develop programs that improve the quality of patient care and better enable boards to provide oversight of quality and safety. Beth was the project lead and lead author for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) White Paper: Framework for Effective Governance of Health System Quality. She was also an expert contributor to Leading a Culture of Safety: A Blueprint for Success.

  Beth currently serves on the boards of Solutions for Patient Safety, a 100+-hospital pediatric network, the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine and the Medstar Insitute for Quality and Safety. Beth was formerly on the Board of Governors of the National Patient Safety Foundation, now part of IHI, and the Center for Healthcare Value. Beth also formerly served on the system boards of Thedacare, a hospital system in northeast Wisconsin, and the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Health System.

  Beth established Quality and Safety First to work as an advisor to individual heatlh systems on their board quality and safety capabilities. Beth leads board education sessions and provides advisory services supporting boards with governance. Beth is passionate about reducing harm and errors, improving the transparency of health care outcomes, and better enabling hospital boards to engage thoughtfully on quality issues. Her passion is driven by the loss of her son to a medical error in 2003 and her desire for all patients to have safe and respectful care and transparent clinical and quality outcomes.

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  Martin J. Hatlie, JD

  Co-Director, MedStar Institute for Quality and Safety
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  Martin J. Hatlie, JD

  Marty Hatlie is CEO of Project Patient Care (PPC, a non-profit organization that uses the voice of the patient to improve care. PPC’s mission is to mobilize the diverse healthcare stakeholders in metropolitan Chicago to provide the best possible care to every patient every time, by eliminating preventable harm and implementing systemic change to ensure consistent excellence. He also is Co-Director of the MedStar Institute for Quality and Safety.

  Drawing on experience as a civil rights attorney, malpractice defense litigator, lobbyist and coalition-builder, Hatlie is active in both public and organizational policy development on patient safety, litigation reform and patient safety issues. He works extensively with consumers and organizations to foster the cultural paradigm shift necessary to support a patient-centered, systems-based approach to the delivery of healthcare services. Hatlie is active in U. S. federal health system transformation work as a consultant on several projects funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

  He was a lobbyist for the American Medical Association for many years. In 1996, he was instrumental in developing the first Annenberg Conference on Patient Safety. In 1997, he coordinated the establishment of the National Patient Safety Foundation and served as its founding Executive Director (1997-99). From 2000 through 2002, Hatlie served as the National Chair of VHA Inc.’s Accelerated Learning Initiative on Patient Safety, working with VHA member hospitals across the country.

  Mr. Hatlie is the co-editor of the Patient Safety Handbook (Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2003), one of the first textbooks in the field of patient safety. He has authored numerous articles addressing patient safety, patient engagement and medical liability issues. Among other activities, p4ps develops case-based training tools exploring systems problems that produce adverse patient events. Its interactive educational programs, the First Do No Harm® video series, developed in partnership with the Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions, are used widely in more than 40 countries.

  Mr. Hatlie currently serves in Board of Directors positions for Consumers Advancing Patient Safety, the Leapfrog Group Board of Directors, the Alliance for Integrated Medication Management and MacNeal Hospital. He currently serves on advisory bodies for AHRQ, the Joint Commission and National Quality Forum. He also serves on the Steering Committees of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, the National Patient Safety Foundation Patient Safety Action Plan and Patients for Patient Safety (PFPS), a part of the World Health Organization’s Patient Safety Programme. Hatlie has helped organize and facilitate numerous workshops in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe that prepare participants to be PFPS Patient Safety Champions.

  Previously, Mr. Hatlie was a member of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Executive Session on Medical Error and served on the boards of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, the Physician Insurers Association of America, the American Tort Reform Association and Parents of Infants and Children with Kernicterus. He was the Founding Chair of both the Health Care Liability Alliance and the National Medical Liability Reform Coalition – both are Washington, D.C.-based coalitions that advocate civil justice and patient safety reform. Mr. Hatlie is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts and Illinois.

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  Vonda Vaden Bates

  CEO, 10th Dot
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  Vonda Vaden Bates

  CEO, 10th Dot

  Vonda Vaden Bates is an alliance builder and leadership coach. For over 30 years Vonda has guided professionals to succeed on behalf of their organizations and careers. She helps people move from potential to action, set and reach goals, manage engaged teams, and communicate with influence. Her creative approach has influenced major market shifts in television, retail, banking, technology and education.

  In 2013 Vonda decided to contribute her skills on behalf of safety in health care after researching how her husband, Yogiraj Charles Bates, died from one of the most common preventable causes of death, hospital-associated venous thromboembolism. Advocating for every person in the care system, Vonda brings a compassionate voice, strategic skills, and collaboration expertise to improve communication and safety in health care.

  She is the CEO of 10th Dot®, a company founded by her late husband, which coaches and trains individuals, teams and organizations to perform at their best.

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  Yvonne Gardner

  Patient Advocate
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  Yvonne Gardner

  Patient Advocate

  Yvonne Collett Stewart Gardner grew up in Roosevelt, Utah, and graduated from Union High School. Having never seen an ocean, she flew to San Diego the day after graduation to experience life on the west coast. She tried out for the college volleyball team in Chula Vista, California and played one season before taking a job in Los Angeles. There she met her first husband, a police officer for the Los Angeles Police Department. They were married for eight years then divorced, and are the parents of four wonderful sons.

  Yvonne moved home to the Uintah Basin where she was reunited with her high school sweetheart. They have been married for 23 years and have two daughters and two more sons. She has been an active member of her church and finds comfort in knowing that we all have a purpose here as we learn and grow through our experiences.

  Yvonne’s hardest trial yet was when she tragically lost her fourth son, Parker Stewart, 2 ½ years ago to respiratory depression after a routine tonsillectomy. He was newly married and then gone too soon. She worked with the Utah State Legislature to pass a concurrent resolution to educate the medical community to this widespread, but greatly unknown problem. She is learning that she “Could have missed the pain, but then she would have missed the dance” (Garth Brooks song).

  Yvonne cherishes the experiences she had with her son before he went HOME. Her greatest blessings in life are her husband and eight children. Death, no matter what form it comes in, is extremely hard to get through without finding our blessings amongst our trials.

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