What Alumni are saying: Testimonials
"The Fellowship provided me with resources to truly lead my organization through new and somewhat uncharted territory. Without a doubt the program has confirmed for me that I am making a difference in a very big way and that the 'journey has only just begun!'"
Janet Smith, MSN
Director, Performance Improvement
Medical Affairs & Quality
Sisters of Charity Health System
St. Mary's Regional Medical Center
"The Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship allows participants to take a giant step back and reexamine and rethink their fundamental assumptions and approaches to the field of patient safety. Rather than ask Fellows to 'think outside the box,' the program offers an invaluable opportunity to ask, 'What box?'"
Georgia Peirce
Director of Communications
Patient Care Services
Massachusetts General Hospital
"The Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship provides an opportunity to not only connect with, and learn from, the thought leaders in patient safety, but then test ideas that arise with others that are deeply engaged in the work of making care safer."
Sam R. Watson, MS
Senior Vice President Patient Safety and Quality
Michigan Health & Hospital Association
Keystone Center for Patient Safety & Quality
"Fellowship faculty are world-renowned experts in patient safety, but it was clear that their main goal was to share their knowledge and experience to enable us to make our care environments safer for our patients."
Nancy Page, MS, APRN, BC-ADM, CDE
Patient Safety Officer
University Hospital-Syracuse
"The front-line perspective of the Fellows provides 'real world' balance to the theoretical, academic lessons of the program. When in the trenches, the support and advice of my Fellowship colleagues helps me navigate in my day-to-day work."
Kathy Leonhardt, MD, MPH
Associate Medical Director, Care Management
Aurora Health Care
"The bonding that occurred in our group was one of the most important elements of the program. We came to trust and understand one another's perspectives such that we opened surprising channels of learning and developed a real 'fellowship'."
David Baron, MD
Primary Care Internist
Cambridge Health Alliance
"Looking back on our experience in the Fellowship program, we have likened it to those rare and fine journeys from which you reap the benefits and rewards long after you return home. We returned home with a new and more enlightened focus on how we can move the safe care agenda forward-not alone- but together."
John Brookey, MD
Assistant Associate Medical Director
Kaiser Permanente
Southern California
Pasadena, CA
Suzanne Graham, PhD, MA, RN
Patient Safety Practice Leader
Kaiser Permanente
Oakland, CA
Lizabeth R. Taghavi
Manager, National Environmental Health and Safety
Kaiser Permanente
Rockville, MD
