PRESS RELEASE:
Sean Tunis, MD, CMS Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director of the Office of the Clinical Standards and Quality Addresses Federal Patient Safety Initiatives at Harvard Quality Colloquium


Classes Held: Annenberg Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Colloquium Hotels: The Inn at Harvard and the Harvard Square Hotel, Cambridge, MA
August 24 - 27, 2003
www.QualityColloquium.com
PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Paul Tunnecliff
800-684-4549 phone
registration@hcconferences.com

CAMBRIDGE, MA - HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE (TM) - JULY 16, 2003 : The Quality Colloquium at Harvard University, August 24 - 27, 2003, www.QualityColloquium.com, today announced a special session on Federal initiatives in patient safety and healthcare quality:

CMS CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER AND DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF CLINICAL STANDARS AND QUALITY ADDRESSES FEDERAL PATIENT SAFETY INITIATIVES:

Sean Tunis, MD, MSc, Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, has joined the faculty of the Quality Colloquium at Harvard University to offer a special session on Federal initiatives in patient safety and healthcare quality on Monday, August 25, 2003.

INN AT HARVARD SOLD OUT; SPACE AVAILABLE AT CHARLES HOTEL ON HARVARD SQUARE:

The Colloquium hotel, the Inn at Harvard, is sold out on conference nights. Space is available at the Charles Hotel on Harvard Square at the special group rate of $159 per night. To make reservations at the Charles Hotel call 617-864-1200 and reference the Quality Colloquium at Harvard University.

OTHER COLLOQUIUM FEATURED FACULTY:
  • David Bernard, MD, Chief Medical Director, Montefiore Medical Center and Professor, University of Pennsylvania, New York, NY
  • Troyen Brennan, MD, JD, MPH, Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
  • Molly Joel Coye, MD, MPH, Founder and President, Health Technology Center, Former Director, California Department of Health Services and Former New Jersey Commissioner of Health, San Francisco, CA
  • Suzanne Delbanco, Ph.D., Executive Director, The Leapfrog Group, Washington, DC
  • Douglas B. Dotan, President & COO, CRG Medical, Inc., Houston, TX
  • Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, Ph.D., President, Institute of Medicine, The National Academies and Former Provost, Harvard University, Washington DC
  • Frank Federico, RPh, Loss Prevention/Patient Safety Specialist, Risk Management Foundation and Co-Leader, Consensus Group for the Prevention of Medical Errors, Cambridge, MA
  • Allan Frankel, MD, Director of Patient Safety, Partners HealthCare System and Trustee, Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors, Boston, MA
  • Frances A. Griffin, RRT, MPA, Director of Patient Safety, QualityHealthCare.org and Co-Director of the Patient Safety Domain, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston, MA
  • George C. Halvorson, Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Co Author, Epidemic of Care: A Call for Safer, Better, and More Accountable Health Care and Former President and CEO of HealthPartners, Oakland, CA
  • Tonya Hongsermeier, MD, MBA, Corporate Manager, Knowledge Management and Clinical Decision Support, Partners Healthcare System, Wellesley, MA
  • George Isham, MD, MS, Medical Director and Chief Health Officer, HealthPartners, Co Author, Epidemic of Care: A Call for Safer, Better, and More Accountable Health Care, Minneapolis, MN
  • Kenneth W. Kizer, MD, MPH, President and CEO, National Quality Forum, Washington, DC
  • Andy Kosseff, MD, Medical Director of System Clinical Improvement, SSM Health Care, St. Louis, MO
  • Delanor Manson RN, BSN, CNA, MA, CPHQ, Senior Consultant, Accreditation and Regulatory Management, Smith Seckman Reid Inc., Nashville, TN
  • Arthur Miller, Esq., Bruce Bromley Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
  • Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH, National Healthcare Thought Leader, Mercer Human Resource Consulting and Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health, San Francisco, CA
  • Dennis S. O'Leary, MD, President; Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Oakbrook Terrace, Il
  • Eric Pan, MD, Senior Analyst, Center for Information Technology Leadership and Adjunct Faculty, Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Wellesley, MA
  • Marcia M. Piotrowski, RN, MSc, Clinical Risk Manager, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Susan Proulx, PharmD, President, Med-E.R.R.S., Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, PA
  • David Shulkin, MD, President, Patient Safety Officer Society, Chief Medical Officer, Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital, Chief Quality Officer and Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine, Drexel University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
  • Robert Stone, Executive Vice President, American Healthways, President, Disease Management Association of America, Nashville, TN
  • Sean Tunis, MD, MSc, Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD
COLLOQUIUM SPONSORS:
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians
  • American College of Medical Quality
  • American Society for Quality, Health Division
  • Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation
  • Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems
  • Australian Patient Safety Foundation
  • Bridges to Excellence
  • Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Consumers Advancing Patient Safety
  • Foundation for Accountability
  • Harvard Health Policy Review
  • Health Affairs
  • Health Technology Center
  • Institute for Safe Medication Practices
  • International Society for Quality in Health Care
  • Irish Society for Quality & Safety in Healthcare
  • Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
  • Journal for Healthcare Quality
  • Journal for Nursing Care Quality
  • Massachusetts Health Data Consortium
  • Medical Education Collaborative
  • National Association for Healthcare Quality
  • National Committee for Quality Assurance
  • National Patient Safety Agency
  • National Patient Safety Foundation
  • National Quality Forum
  • Patient Safety Institute
  • Patient Safety Officers Society
  • Partnership for Patient Safety (p4ps)
  • Safety Institute, Premier Inc.
  • The Quality Letter
  • (URAC) American Accreditation HealthCare Commission
EXHIBIT & SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION:

For sponsorship and exhibit information contact:
Joni Lipson, Exhibit Manager
Phone: 215-599-6626
Fax: 215-545-8107
E-mail: joni.lipson@rmpinc.com.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

For further registration info contact:
Registration Office
National Quality Colloquium
7790 Barberry Ave.
Yucca Valley, CA USA 92284
Phone: 800-684-4549
E-mail: registration@hcconferences.com