Meet the people who provide expert guidance and strategic planning for the Center.

Oversight Committee

Barbara Jung, MD

Chair, Center Oversight Committee
Chair, Department of Medicine
Email: vcbroudy@uw.edu

Charles E. Alpers, MD

Interim Chair, Pathology
Email: alp@uw.edu

Lisa Brandenburg

Chief Health System Officer
Email: lisab@uw.edu

Mike Crowder, MD, PhD

Chair, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Email: cmc53@uw.edu

Timothy H. Dellit, MD

Chief Medical Officer, UW Medicine
President, UW Physicians
Email: thdellit@uw.edu

Barbara Goff, MD

Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Email: bgoff@uw.edu

Richard Goss, MD, MPH

Medical Director, Harborview Medical Center
Email: rgoss@uw.edu

Marcia Rhodes

Director, Health Sciences & UW Medicine Risk Management
Manager, UW Medicine CQIP
Email: mrhodes@uw.edu

Dushyant Sahani, MD

Chair, Department of Radiology
Email: dsahani@uw.edu

Thomas O. Staiger, MD

Medical Director, UW Medical Center
Email: staiger@uw.edu

Susan A. Stern, MD

Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
Email: sstern@uw.edu

Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD

Chair, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education
Email: pth@uw.edu

Jurgen Unutzer, MD, MPH, MA

Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Email: unutzer@uw.edu

Leslie R. Walker-Harding, MD, FAAP, FSAHM

Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Email: leslie.walker-harding@seattlechildrens.org

Douglas Wood, MD

Chair, Department of Surgery
Email: dewood@uw.edu

Internal Advisory Committee

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Mika Sinanan, MD, PhD

Chair, Center Internal Advisory Committee
Special Senior Advisor
Professor, Department of Surgery
Email: mssurg@uw.edu

Lucia Austin, RN, MS, JD

Assistant Administrator, Quality Improvement
Email: luciaa3@uw.edu

Dena Brownstein, MD

Medical Director, Patient Safety, Seattle Children's Hospital
Email: dena.brownstein@seattlechildrens.org

Frederick Chen, MD, MPH

Chief of Family Medicine, Harborview Medical Center
Email: fchen@uw.edu

Julie B. Duncan

Director, Center for Clinical Excellence
Email: jbd@uw.edu

Christopher W. Head, MBA

Administrator, PI/Transformation of Care, UW Medicine
Email: headc@uw.edu

Byron Joyner, MD

Vice Dean, Graduate Medical Education
Email: byron.joyner@seattlechildrens.org

Christopher Kim, MD, MBA

Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
Associate Medical Director, Quality and Safety Medical Director, Center for Clinical Excellence
Email: seoungk@uw.edu

Trish Kritek, MD

Associate Dean for Faculty Development, School of Medicine
Email: pkritek@uw.edu

Katie Colleen A. Maletich, MBA, BSN, RN

Director, Quality and Safety, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
Email: kmaletich@seattlecca.org

Cindy Sayre, PhD, RN

Chief Nursing Officer, UW Medical Center
Email: casayre@uw.edu

Shabir Somani

Chief Pharmacy Officer, UW Medicine
Email: somani@uw.edu

Robert Sweet, MD

Executive Director of WISH
Email: rssched@uw.edu

Brenda Zierler, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Email: brendaz@uw.edu