Lucian L. Leape, MD
Chair

Diane C. Pinakiewicz, MBA
President

MEMBERS

Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Carolyn M. Clancy, MD
Director, Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality

James B. Conway, MAM, CHE
Senior Vice President,
Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Paul A. Gluck, MD
Ex-officio
Chair, Board of Directors
National Patient Safety Foundation

David Lawrence, MD
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (retired),
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

Julianne M. Morath, RN, MS
Chief Operating Officer, Children’s
Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota

Dennis S. O’Leary, MD
President, The Joint Commission

LUCIAN LEAPE INSTITUTE
at the National Patient Safety Foundation
132 MASS MoCA Way
North Adams, MA 01247
413.663.2020
LLI@npsf.org www.npsf.org

NPSF Announces the Creation of the

LUCIAN LEAPE INSTITUTE
at the National Patient Safety Foundation

The creation of the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation was announced in May 2007 at NPSF’s Annual Patient Safety Congress in Washington, DC.

The Institute functions as a think tank focusing on defining strategic paths and calls to action for the field of patient safety, with the goal of providing vision and context for the many efforts already underway within the healthcare field. The Institute convenes two Roundtables annually and produces reports and recommendations that will provide guidance for the work of the field and challenge the system to address those issues critical to making the system safer.

The Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation has its administrative offices in North Adams, Massachusetts, at the headquarters of the National Patient Safety Foundation®. NPSF is an independent not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that has been pursuing one mission – improving the safety of patients – since its founding in 1997.

Join us in Nashville for the 2008
NPSF Annual Patient Safety Congress

Members of the Institute will be featured in a Congress plenary where they will present their report on Transformational Concepts for Patient Safety, incorporating the input from the gala’s Open Discussions. This will be followed the next morning by breakfast roundtables led by the Institute Members and following the same format used for the Open Discussions. The report will provide the focus for the work of the Institute as it moves toward topic-specific Roundtables and the issuance of associated proceedings and calls to action.

Check back for more information regarding the Fall 2008
Roundtable on Health Professions Education and the
2009 Lucian Leape Institute Gala.