Executive Committee
Thomas H. Gallagher, MD, MACP
Director
Professor and Associate Chair for Quality, Safety, and Value; Department of Medicine
Professor, Department of Bioethics and Humanities
Interest Areas:
Quality of Care, Patient Safety, Error Disclosure, Accountability, Patient-Centered Care, Ethics, Precision Medicine, Health Policy
Cindy Sayre, PhD, RN
Co-Director
Chief Nursing Officer, Senior Associate Administrator, Patient Care Services, UWMC
Interest Areas:
Fall Prevention, Resilience & Wellbeing for Healthcare Workers
Anneliese Schleyer, MD, MHA
Executive Sponsor
Interim Medical Director, UW Medicine
Interest Areas:
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Frontline Engagement in Quality and Safety, Venous Thromboembolism Prevention and Anticoagulation Safety, Hospital Medicine
Joshua M. Liao, MD, MSc
Director of Value and Systems Science
Associate Chair for Health Systems
Medical Director of Payment Strategy
Interest Areas:
Value-Based Care Delivery, Systems and Provider Behavior
Lori E. Rutman, MD, MPH
Director of Scholarship
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine
Interest Areas:
Quality Improvement Methodologies, Pediatric Standards of Care, SQUIRE 2.0, Sepsis Outcomes, Quality Improvement in Emergency Medicine
Lori.Rutman@seattlechildrens.org
Andrew White, MD
Director of Education
Professor of Medicine
Attending Physician, Hospital Medicine
Assistant Chief Medical Information Officer, UW Medicine
Interest Areas:
Communication After Adverse Events, Clinician Support After Adverse Events, Informatics, Error Disclosure, Team Communication, Interhospital Transfers, Inpatient Medicine, Electronic Decision Support
Additional Leadership
Nick Meo, MD
Advisor for Quality Improvement Training
Associate Medical Director, Quality and Patient Safety, Harborview Medical Center
Interest Areas:
Quality Improvement Education and Training, Veteran Health, Patient Safety, Performance Measurement, Inpatient Flow, Hospital Medicine
Russell Migita, MD
Advisor for Quality Improvement Training
Professor, Pediatrics
Attending Physician, Seattle Children's Hospital Emergency Department
Interest Areas:
Lean Quality Improvement, Implementation Science, Clinical Standardization, Emergency Department Flow, Healthcare Facility Design, Diagnostic Error
russell.migita@seattlechildrens.org
Somnath Mookherjee, MD
Advisor for Faculty Development
Professor of Medicine
Director, University of Washington Center for Learning and Innovation in Medical Education (CLIME)
Interest Areas:
Faculty Development, Clinical Teaching Improvement, Clinical Reasoning, Clinical Case Reporting, Peer Observation and Feedback
Rashmi Sharma, MD
Physician Scientist
Associate Professor
Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, UW Medicine Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence
Interest Areas:
Patient-Physician Communication, Palliative Care, Health Equity, Decision Making
Lauge Sokol-Hessner, MD, CPPS
QI Mentor and Instructor
Associate Professor, Medicine
Associate Director, Collaborative for Accountability and Improvement
Interest Areas:
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Harm Response Programs, Quality Improvement Methodology, Leadership, Education and Mentoring
Lindee Strizich, MD, MSc, SFHM
Course Co-Director of the GME Quality and Safety Foundations Course
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine
Interest Areas: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, GME Education and Engagement in QI/PS, Sepsis QI, Perioperative QI