Technical Expert Panel

James B. Battles, PhD
Senior Service Fellow for Patient Safety
AHRQ Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQulPS)
Rockville, MD

Raymond Chinn, MD
Hospital Epidemiologist and Chairman of Infection Control Committee
Sharp Memorial Hospital
San Diego, CA

Nancy Foster
Vice President, Quality and Patient Safety Policy
American Hospital Association
Washington, DC

Robert Hyzy, MD
Director of the Critical Care Medical Unit
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, MI

Alexander J. Kallen, MD, MPH
Medical Officer
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA

Harold Kaplan, MD
Professor of Health Evidence & Policy
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY

Joseph L. Kelly, MD
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Baltimore, MD

Heidi B. King
Deputy Director, DoD Patient Safety Program
TRICARE Management Activity
Office of the Chief Medical Officer
Falls Church, VA

Arthur Aaron Levin, MPH
Director
Center for Medical Consumers
New York, NY

Bruce McPherson
President and CEO
The Alliance for Advancing Nonprofit Healthcare
Washington, DC

Pat Posa, RN, BSN, MSA
Special Projects Coordinator
St. Joseph Mercy Health System
Ann Arbor, MI

Mark E. Rupp, MD
Medical Director
Department of Healthcare Epidemiology
Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE

Vinod Sahney, PhD
Senior Fellow
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Cambridge, MA

Robert Wachter, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine
Chief of the Medical Service
Chair, Patient Safety Committee
UCSF Medical Center
San Francisco, CA

John C. Wiesendanger
Chief Executive Officer
WVMI and Quality Insights (QIO)
Charleston, WV

Charlotte Yeh, MD, FACEP
Chief Medical Officer
AARP Services, Inc.
Washington, DC