Speakers

Speakers

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  Joe Kiani

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

  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.

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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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  Lee Fleisher, MD

  Professor & Chair of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Chair, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Perioperative Brain Health Initiative
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  Lee Fleisher, MD

  Professor & Chair of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Chair, American Society of Anesthesiologists Perioperative Brain Health Initiative

  Lee A. Fleisher, MD, is the Robert D. Dripps Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine from which he received the 2016 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.  He received his medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, from which he received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2011. His research focuses on perioperative cardiovascular risk assessment and reduction, health policy, decision making and measurement of quality of care and has received numerous federal, industry and foundation grants related to these subjects. He is a former-Chair and current member of the Consensus Standards Advisory Committee, co-chair of the Surgery Standing Committee and a Member of the Measures Application Partnership Hospital Workgroup of the National Quality Forum, as well as a former member of the Administrative Board of the Council of Faculty and Academic Specialties of the Association of American Medical Colleges. He is a member of the Medical Advisory Panel for the Technology Evaluation Center of the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association and the Task Force on Practice Guidelines for the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association.  In 2007, he was elected to membership of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine) of the National Academy of Sciences and serves on Committees of the NAM.  He is on the Planning Committee and speaker at the 2018 NAM meeting on Building the Evidence Base for Improving Health Care: Contributions, opportunities and priorities.

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  Carol Peden, MBChB, MD, FRCA, FFICM, FFMLM, MPH

  Executive Director, Center for Health System Innovation; Professor of Anesthesiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
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  Carol Peden, MBChB, MD, FRCA, FFICM, FFMLM, MPH

  Executive Director, Center for Health System Innovation; Professor of Anesthesiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

  Dr. Carol Peden MB ChB, MD, FRCA, FFICM, FFMLM, MPH is Executive Director of the Center for Health System Innovation and a Professor of Anesthesiology at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.  She is Vice Chair for Performance Improvement of the Perioperative Brain Health Initiative.  Dr. Peden has designed and lead quality improvement projects around the world and is a Fellow and Faculty of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).  In 2016 she was named “Public Health Innovator of the Year” by Harvard School of Public Health for her work using quality improvement to improve outcomes for high risk surgical patients.   Her research interests include innovation in healthcare, perioperative medicine, patient and person-centered care and patient safety. She is dually accredited in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine.  She gained her medical degree and research doctorate in medicine at the University of Edinburgh in the UK, and has an MPH from Harvard.

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Patient Safety Curriculum for Schools

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  Steven J. Scheinman, MD

  President and Dean, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
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  Patient Safety Curriculum for Schools

  

  Steven J. Scheinman, MD

  President and Dean, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine; EVP and Chief Academic Officer, Geisinger Health System

  Dr. Scheinman is an internist and nephrologist who has earned international prominence for his research into the genetics of inherited kidney diseases and kidney stones.  He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed articles, reviews, and book chapters on topics related to kidney disease and genetics. For most of his career he was principal investigator on grants funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), American Heart Association (AHA) and other agencies. He has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international meetings and a visiting professor at many prominent universities across the United States and abroad.

  Dr. Scheinman has served on review boards for the NIH, American Heart Association, American Society of Nephrology, American Federation for Clinical/Medical Research, and National Kidney Foundation, among others. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the American Society of Nephrology, and is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.

  Dr. Scheinman is an advocate on healthcare workforce issues and matters affecting medical schools.  He was a gubernatorial appointee to the New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education, and has served on a number of advisory boards to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and national boards related to medical education. He currently serves on the board of the National Resident Match Program and is chair-elect of that board.

  Dr. Scheinman holds an A.B., summa cum laude, from Amherst College and received his medical degree with honors from Yale University. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital; was chief resident in internal medicine at Upstate; and completed fellowships in nephrology at Upstate Medical Center and Yale-New Haven Hospital.  He was formerly professor of medicine and pharmacology at SUNY Upstate Medical University, where he served for eight years as senior vice president and dean of the College of Medicine.

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  Margrit Shoemaker, MD, FACP

  Assistant Chair of Internal Medicine, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine; Chair, Geisinger Patient Safety Work Group
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  Margrit Shoemaker, MD, FACP

  Assistant Chair of Internal Medicine, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine; Chair, Geisinger Patient Safety Work Group

  Margrit Shoemaker, MD, FACP, is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed her residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism there. She is Board Certified in both. In addition to maintaining a clinical Endocrinology practice in Williamsport, she has been instrumental in the clinical education of physician assistant students, medical students and Family Medicine residents.  Dr Shoemaker joined clinical faculty of The Commonwealth Medical College (currently Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine or GCSOM) as a regional Assistant Dean in 2010 and has served as Assistant Chair for Internal Medicine since 2012. Special interest in Quality and Safety (Q&S) led her to oversee development and implementation of a Q&S curriculum for medical students at GCSOM since 2016. She joined the Patient Safety Movement Foundation Curriculum group in 2017 and heads the Patient Safety Curriculum Development project.

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Virtual Discussion

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  Senator Todd Young

  United States Senator from Indiana
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  Virtual Discussion

  

  Senator Todd Young

  United States Senator from Indiana

  Senator Todd Young represents Hoosiers in the United States Senate. He currently serves on the Senate Committees on Foreign Relations; Health, Education, Labor & Pensions; Commerce, Science & Transportation; and Small Business and Entrepreneurship. A fifth-generation Hoosier, Todd grew up watching his parents work hard in order to support the family. His first jobs were delivering newspapers, mowing lawns, and providing janitorial services at the family business. Todd is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He graduated with honors in 1995 and accepted a commission in the U.S. Marine Corps. In 2000, Todd was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps as a Captain. While serving in the Marines and working as a business consultant, Todd earned an MBA and his law degree. In 2010, he ran for Congress and served three terms representing Indiana’s 9th District. He was elected to the US Senate in 2016. Todd married his wife Jenny in 2005 and worked together at a small law firm in Paoli, Indiana started by Jenny’s great-grandfather. Today, they reside in Johnson County, Indiana with their four young children: a son, Tucker, and three daughters, Annalise, Abigail and Ava.

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