Senior Advisor, Safety/President, Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Patricia is President, Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety, and Senior Advisor, Safety at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement where she is senior sponsor of the IHI’s Lucian Leape Institute and co-chair of the National Steering Committee for Patient Safety. Prior to the merger with IHI, she served as Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President of Safety Programs at the National Patient Safety Foundation and in roles in clinical practice, academia, and the medical device industry. Patricia is a Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS), a graduate of the AHA-NPSF Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship Program and IHI Fellow, and serves on numerous national committees, taskforces, technical expert panels, including the AHRQ Survey of Patient Safety Culture Technical Expert Panel and the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety Editorial Advisory Board and Sentinel Event Advisory Committee. She is Commissioner, ANCC's Pathway to Excellence, and Board Member of the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors, the Foundation to Advance Nursing in Massachusetts, the I-PASS Institute, and Planetree’s Person-Centered Certification Committee. She was integral to the development of the Blueprint for Leading a Culture of Safety, created in partnership with ACHE and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement/National Patient Safety Foundation. Patricia is the recipient of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses Lifetime Member Award, the 2023 University of North Texas Health Science Center’s Mary E. Luibel Distinguished Service Award, and was named to the 2024 and 2023 Becker’s Review List of Patient Safety Experts to Know. Patricia received her BS in Nursing from Boston College and her MS in Nursing from Boston University.
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Blueprint for Leading Your Safety Renaissance: The Path to Durable Safety (53X)
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
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