Robert M. Wachter, MD, Editor, AHRQ WebM&M/PSNet
Bob Wachter is Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Associate Chairman of UCSF's Department of Medicine, Chief of the Medical Service at UCSF Medical Center, and Chief of UCSF's 50-faculty Division of Hospital Medicine.
Bob is an expert in patient safety, health care quality, and the organization of hospital care; he has published over 200 articles and six books in these areas. He coined the term "hospitalist" in a 1996 New England Journal of Medicine article and is generally acknowledged as the academic leader of the field, the fastest growing specialty in modern medical history. He is a past president of the Society of Hospital Medicine.
He is also a national leader in the fields of patient safety and health care quality. He has written two books on patient safety, including the new 2nd edition of Understanding Patient Safety. He is a recipient of the John M. Eisenberg award for his work in safety, and is a frequent discussant on the topic in the media. His blog, Wachter's World (www.wachtersworld.org), is one of the nation's most popular health care blogs. Modern Physician magazine has ranked him as one of the 30 most influential physicians in the United States several times; his #10 ranking in 2010 made him the most highly ranked academic physician in the country. In 2012-13, he will serve as chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine.
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Sumant Ranji, MD, Associate Editor, AHRQ PSNet
Sumant Ranji is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Sumant has a strong interest in quality improvement research in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. He has completed systematic reviews of quality improvement strategies for diabetes care, outpatient antibiotic use, and prevention of health care–associated infections for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and is actively involved in quality improvement efforts at UCSF Medical Center. He maintains an active clinical and teaching role, including serving as the faculty advisor for the categorical Internal Medicine Residency program journal club and attending on the ward and medical consult services at Moffitt-Long Hospital and Mount Zion Hospital.
Sumant received his medical degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed his Internal Medicine residency training at the University of Chicago and subsequently served as Chief Medical Resident at Cook County Hospital. He joined the UCSF Hospitalist Group in 2004 after completing a 2-year fellowship in Hospital Medicine and Clinical Research at UCSF.
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Christopher Moriates, MD, Associate Editor, AHRQ PSNet
Christopher Moriates is a Clinical Instructor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Chris has particular interests in health care value, quality improvement, medical education, procedural training, and patient safety. During residency training he co-designed and implemented a successful cost awareness curriculum for Internal Medicine residents. He has also helped develop curricula for medical trainees pertaining to patient safety and quality improvement. Chris is currently the Co-Chair of the UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine's High-Value Care committee and a member of the UCSF Center for Healthcare Value. He is an attending physician on the teaching and non-teaching medicine services, the hospitalist procedures and quality improvement service, and the medicine consultation service.
Chris received his medical degree from the University of California, San Diego, and completed his Internal Medicine residency training at UCSF.
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Kaveh G. Shojania, MD, Deputy Editor, AHRQ PSNet; Consulting Editor, AHRQ WebM&M
Kaveh Shojania is Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Quality and Safety and Director of the Centre for Patient Safety at the University of Toronto, where he also sees patients as a hospital-based general internist. Kaveh's research focuses on identifying evidence-based patient safety interventions and effective strategies for translating evidence into practice. His work has appeared in leading journals, such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and the Annals of Internal Medicine. He has lectured widely on issues related to the scholarly advancement of patient safety and quality improvement, including twice delivering invited lectures to the US Institute of Medicine.
Before moving back to Canada in 2004, Kaveh was on the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he was one of the founding editors of AHRQ WebM&M. He was also lead editor (and authored six chapters) of Making Healthcare Safer, the evidence report produced for AHRQ following the publication of the Institute of Medicine report, To Err Is Human. While at UCSF, Kaveh co-authored a book (with Dr. Wachter) on patient safety for a general audience that received excellent reviews in the New York Times and many other media and has sold approximately 50,000 copies. In 2004, Kaveh and Bob Wachter received one of the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety Awards from the US Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the National Quality Forum for work in patient safety that has had an impact at a national level.
Kaveh received his medical degree from the University of Manitoba and completed his residency training at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. After a hospital medicine fellowship at UCSF, he joined the faculty there for several years before returning to Canada.
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Russ Cucina, MD, MS, Informatics Consultant, AHRQ PSNet
Russ Cucina is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His research is in clinical human-computer interaction science with an emphasis on human factors and patient safety, decision support systems and automated clinical inference, sociotechnical aspects of clinical information systems, information storage and retrieval methods, and knowledge representation and management.
Prior to his work with AHRQ Patient Safety Network, Russ participated in knowledge management projects with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, as well as on information storage and retrieval projects at Stanford Medical Informatics and with a number of medical publishing houses. He attends regularly on the inpatient Medicine Service, on the Medical Consultation Service, and in the Screening and Acute Care Clinic, all at UCSF Medical Center. Operationally, Russ works with UCSF Medical Center's information services department on the enterprise clinical information systems and was previously the physician lead for Stanford Hospital & Clinic's computerized provider order entry and multidisciplinary electronic documentation projects. He consults for a number of clinical software and technology vendors, community hospitals, and academic centers regionally and nationally.
Russ received his medical degree from the University of California, Davis. He was resident and chief resident in Internal Medicine at Stanford University. Russ also holds a master's degree in biomedical informatics from Stanford University.
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Tiffany Lee, Project Analyst
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Vida Lynum, Project Analyst
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Lorri Zipperer, MA, Cybrarian
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