Dr. Donald Berwick - Lessons From Someone Who Saved 100,000 Lives

Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, is president emeritus and senior
fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and former
administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
A pediatrician by background, Dr. Berwick has served on the faculty
of the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health,
and on the staffs of Boston's Children's Hospital Medical Center,
Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Brigham and Women's
Hospital. He has also served as vice chair of the US Preventive
Services Task Force, the first "independent member" of the American
Hospital Association Board of Trustees, and chair of the National
Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
He served two terms on the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's)
Governing Council, was a member of the IOM's Global Health Board,
and served on President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer
Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry. Recognized as a
leading authority on health care quality and improvement, Dr.
Berwick has received numerous awards for his contributions. In
2005, he was appointed "Honorary Knight Commander of the British
Empire" by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his
work with the British National Health Service. Dr. Berwick is the
author or co-author of over 160 scientific articles and six books.
He currently serves as lecturer in the Department of Health Care
Policy at Harvard Medical School.