Robert M. Wachter, MD, Editor, AHRQ WebM&M/PSNet
Robert M. Wachter, MD is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he directs the 60-physician Division of Hospital Medicine. Author of 250 articles and 6 books, he coined the term “hospitalist” in 1996 and is generally considered the “father” of the hospitalist field, the fastest growing specialty in the history of modern medicine. He is past president of the Society of Hospital Medicine, and is currently the chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine.
In the safety and quality arenas, he edits the US government’s two leading websites on safety (they receive about one million yearly visits) and has written two bestselling books on the subject, including Understanding Patient Safety, whose 2nd edition was published in 2012. In 2004, he received the John M. Eisenberg Award, the nation’s top honor in patient safety. For the past five years, Modern Healthcare magazine has named him one of the 50 most influential physician-executives in the U.S. (#14 in 2012). He has served on the healthcare advisory boards of several companies, including Google. His blog, www.wachtersworld.org, is one of the nation’s most popular healthcare blogs.
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Sumant Ranji, MD, Associate Editor, AHRQ PSNet
Dr. Ranji is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Ranji 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 (QI) 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.
Dr. Ranji 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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Niraj L. Sehgal, MD, MPH, Associate Editor, AHRQ WebM&M/PSNet
Niraj Sehgal is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Quality & Safety in the Department of Medicine. His work focuses on improving healthcare systems through the development of education and training programs, engagement of trainees and providers in systems innovation, and a commitment to change management strategies. He speaks locally and nationally on topics related to quality, safety, and leadership development.
At UCSF, Niraj divides his time between caring for hospitalized patients and supervising trainees, directing quality and safety programs within the Department of Medicine and UCSF Medical Center, and working at the UCSF Center for Health Professions. For the latter, he directs two physician leadership programs that train professionals to manage and lead change in their organizations and a third program that provides similar training to an interdisciplinary group of hospital-based providers. Niraj was recognized for his teaching and mentoring excellence through induction into UCSF’s Academy of Medical Educators in 2009.
Niraj is a graduate of Washington University and Rush Medical College, and earned a Master’s in Public Health from UC Berkeley. He completed a Residency and served as Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at Stanford University, and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. Niraj was also a selected fellow and graduate of the California Healthcare Foundation Leadership Program.
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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. He has published over 100 peer review articles, including in leading journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, 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. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement at the University of Toronto.
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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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