Robert M. Wachter, MD, Editor, AHRQ WebM&M/PSNet
Dr. 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.
Dr. Wachter 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 is editor of AHRQ WebM&M, an online case-based patient safety journal, and AHRQ Patient Safety Network, the leading federal patient safety portal. Together, these Web sites receive 2 million visits each year. He has written two books on patient safety, and has discussed the topic on Good Morning America, PBS's NewsHour, CNN's American Morning, and CBS Sunday Morning. 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.
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Niraj L. Sehgal, MD, MPH, Associate Editor, AHRQ WebM&M/PSNet
Dr. Sehgal is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he spends approximately half his time as a clinical educator on the inpatient medical service and the rest as an investigator with interests in patient safety and quality measurement.
Dr. Sehgal sits on local patient safety committees and carries a strong interest in developing model units to test the most effective strategies to improve both the quality and safety of care in hospitalized patients. He co-authored a chapter on quality measurement in the leading textbook on Hospital Medicine, and he is working to improve the collaboration among physicians with nurses, pharmacists, and administrators in designing patient safety interventions.
Dr. Sehgal received his medical degree from Rush University in Chicago. He completed a residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford University Hospital and Clinics before moving on to complete a fellowship at the Stanford Prevention Research Center studying prevention outcomes. During his fellowship, he earned a master's in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. |
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Sumant Ranji, MD, Associate Editor, AHRQ PSNet
Dr. Ranji is an Associate 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 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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Kaveh G. Shojania, MD, Deputy Editor, AHRQ PSNet; Consulting Editor, AHRQ WebM&M
Dr. Shojania is an internist in the Department of Medicine at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement and is Director of the University of Toronto Centre for Patient Safety.
Dr. Shojania'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, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association, and he has twice delivered invited presentations on patient safety to the US Institute of Medicine.
Before moving back to Canada in 2004, Dr. Shojania 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, Dr. Shojania 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, Drs. Shojania and 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.
Dr. Shojania 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
Dr. 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, Dr. Cucina 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, Dr. Cucina 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.
Dr. Cucina received his medical degree from the University of California, Davis. He was resident and chief resident in Internal Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Cucina 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 |