Engineering Safety Into Practice Affinity Group

The National Action Alliance established the Engineering Safety Into Practice Affinity Group to make healthcare safer by design by identifying scalable opportunities for better engineering safety into key healthcare practice—one of the Alliance’s five Aims. Read more about the Aims and the approach the Alliance is taking to achieve them.

The following experts are currently members of the National Action Alliance’s Engineering Safety Into Practice Affinity Group:

• Martha Betz, PhD, Associate Director of Post Market Programs for the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration
• Pascale Carayon, PhD, Professor Emerita, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Founding Director, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Chris DiRienzo, MD, Senior Vice President, Chief Physician Executive, American Hospital Association
• Rollin J. “Terry” Fairbanks, MD, MS, Senior Vice President and Chief Quality and Safety Officer at MedStar Health, Executive Director of the MedStar Institute for Quality and Safety, Founding Director Emeritus of the National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Georgetown University
• Jane F. Fogg, MD, MPH, Senior Physician Advisor, Physician Satisfaction, American Medical Association
• Lillee Gelinas, DNP, RN, CPPS, FAAN, Assistant Professor of Medical Education and Health Systems Science and Patient Safety Director at Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, The University of North Texas Health Science Center
• Ayse Gurses, PhD, MS, MPH, Director of Armstrong Institute Center for Health Care Human Factors, Professor of Patient Safety and Quality, and Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Lauri Hicks, DO, Medical Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Captain in the U.S. Public Health Service
• David Hunt, MD, Medical Director, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
• Anjali Joseph, PhD, Director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing, Professor of Architecture, and Spartanburg Regional Health System Endowed Chair in Architecture and Health Design, Clemson University
• Scott Lucas, PhD, PE, Vice President of Device Safety, ECRI Institute
• Elizabeth Mort, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, The Joint Commission
• Christine Sinsky, MD, Vice President of Professional Satisfaction, American Medical Association
• Rupa S. Valdez, PhD, MS, Professor with joint appointments in the School of Medicine and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and core faculty member of Global Studies and the Disability Studies Initiative, University of Virginia
• Kayla Waldron, PharmD, MS, BCPS, Director of Medication Use and Quality Improvement, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

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