Fellowship Faculty and Advisors
Darvin Ayre
President
Ayre & Associates
Doug Bonacum, MBA, CPHQ, CPHRM
Vice President, Safety Management
Kaiser Permanente
Kara Clark, FSA, MAAA
Executive Director, American Society for Healthcare
Risk Management
American Hospital Association
John R. Combes, MD
President & COO
Center for Healthcare Governance
American Hospital Association
James Conway, MS
Senior Fellow
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Senior Consultant
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Susan Edgman-Levitan, PA
Executive Director
John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation
Massachusetts General Hospital
Rick Foster, MA
President
Foster, Hicks & Associates
Allan Frankel, MD
Principal
Pascal Metrics, Inc.
Maulik Joshi, DrPH
President and CEO
Health Research & Educational Trust
Senior Vice President, Research
American Hospital Association
Eric Knox, MD
Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Minnesota
Michael Leonard, MD
Physician Leader for Patient Safety
Kaiser Permanente
Della Lin, MD
Executive Director of CME
The Queen’s Medical Center
Lenoard Marcus, PhD
Lecturer on Public Health Practice
Harvard School of Public Health
David Marx, JD
Principal
Outcome Engineering, LLC
Steve Mayfield, MBB, MBA, DrHA
Senior Vice President, Quality & Performance Improvement
American Hospital Association
Keith McCandless, MA
Principal
Oblique Strategy
Mary "M.T." Meadows, RN, MS, MBA
Director, Professional Practice
American Organization of Nurse Executives
Julie Morath, RN, MS
Chief Quality and Patient Safety Officer
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Diane C. Pinakiewicz, MBA
President
National Patient Safety Foundation
Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD
Medical Director
Johns Hopkins Center for
Innovation in Quality Patient Care
Michael D. Pugh, MPH
President & CEO
Verisma Systems, Inc.
Matthew Scanlon, MD
Asst. Professor, Pediatric Critical Care
Medical College of Wisconsin
Lisa Schilling, RN, MPH
Vice President, Performance Improvement
Department of Care & Service Quality
Kaiser Permanente
J. Bryan Sexton, PhD, MA
Duke University Health System
Elizabeth Summy, MSc, CAE
Vice President
Office of Personal Membership
American Hospital Association
Pamela Thompson, MSN, RN, FAAN
Chief Executive Officer
American Organization of Nurse Executives
Saul Weingart, MD, PhD
Vice President, Patient Safety
Director, Center for Patient Safety
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Mark Williams, MD, FACP
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Hospital Medicine
Past President, Society for Hospital Medicine (SHM)
Chief, Division of Hospital Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
