Meet the people who support the Center's mission and vision.
Quality of Care, Patient Safety, Error Disclosure, Accountability, Patient-Centered Care, Ethics, Precision Medicine, Health Policy
Executive Committee
Thomas H. Gallagher, MD, MACP
Co-Director
Professor and Associate Chair for Quality, Safety, and Value; Department of Medicine
Professor, Department of Bioethics and Humanities
Professor, Department of Bioethics and Humanities
Interest Areas:
Email: thomasg@uw.edu
Cindy Sayre, PhD, RN
Co-Director
Chief Nursing Officer, Senior Associate Administrator, Patient Care Services, UWMC
Interest Areas:
Interest Areas: Fall Prevention, Resilience & Wellbeing for Healthcare Workers
Email: casayre@uw.edu
Anneliese Schleyer, MD
Co-Director
Associate Chief Medical Officer, UW Medicine
Interest Areas:
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Frontline Engagement in Quality and Safety, Venous Thromboembolism Prevention and Anticoagulation Safety, Hospital Medicine
Email: schleyer@uw.edu
Joshua M. Liao, MD, MSc
Director of Value and Systems Science
Associate Chair for Health Systems
Medical Director of Payment Strategy
Medical Director of Payment Strategy
Interest Areas:
Value-Based Care Delivery, Systems and Provider Behavior
Email: joshliao@uw.edu
Russell Migita, MD
Co-Director of Education
Professor, Pediatrics
Attending Physician, Seattle Children's Hospital Emergency Department
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
Lori E. Rutman, MD, MPH
Director of Research
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine
Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine
Interest Areas:
Quality Improvement Methodologies, Pediatric Standards of Care, SQUIRE 2.0, Sepsis Outcomes, Quality Improvement in Emergency Medicine
Andrew White, MD
Co-Director of Education
Course Director of the Certificate Program in Patient Safety and Quality
Course Director of the Certificate Program in Patient Safety and Quality
Associate Professor of Medicine
UW Medical Center Hospitalist Group Director
UW Medical Center Hospitalist Group Director
Interest Areas:
Communication After Adverse Events, Clinican Support After Adverse Events, Informatics, Error Disclosure, Team Communication, Interhospital Transfers, Inpatient Medicine, Electronic Decision Support
Email: andwhite@uw.edu
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
Email: nmeo@uw.edu
Somnath Mookherjee, MD
Faculty Development Lead
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Faculty Development Program, Division of General Internal Medicine
Director, Faculty Development Program, Division of General Internal Medicine
Interest Areas:
Faculty Development, Clinical Reasoning, Clinical Case Reporting, Physical Examination Education, Quality Improvement Education, Peer Observation and Feedback, Educational Feedback
Email: smookh@uw.edu
Rashmi Sharma, MD
Physician Scientist
Associate Professor
Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, UW Medicine Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence
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
Email: rasharma@uw.edu
Lauge Sokol-Hessner, MD
QI Mentor and Instructor
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine
Interest Areas:
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Harm Response Programs, Quality Improvement Methodology, Leadership, Education and Mentoring
Email: lauge@uw.edu