Patient safety

The Priority Setting Working Group

  • David W. Bates (Chair), Chief, Division of General Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, USA
  • Benedetta Allegranzi, Scientist, WHO Patient Safety, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Peter Angood, Vice-President, Chief Patient Safety Officer, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, Chicago, USA
  • Zulfiqar Bhutta, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Karachi, Pakistan
  • Peter Davis, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Auckland, New Zealand
  • Björn Fahlgren, Technical Officer, Devices and Clinical Technology, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Jan Fordham, Technical Officer, Blood Transfusion Safety, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Daniel Grandt, Professor, Chief of Internal Medicine, Hospital of Saarbrücken, Germany
  • Maimunah Hamid, Director, Institute for Health Systems Research, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Jorge Insua, Medical Doctor, Hospital Universitario Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Ashish Jha, Assistant Professor of Health Policy, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
  • Robinah Kaitiritimba, National Coordinator, Uganda National Health Consumers Organization, Kampala, Uganda
  • Selma Khamassi, Medical Officer, Injection Safety & amp, Related Infection Control, Safety Injection Global Network (SIGN) Secretariat, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Itziar Larizgoitia, Research Lead, WHO Patient Safety, Geneva
  • Thandinkosi Madiba, Professor, Head, School of Surgical Disciplines, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
  • Mario Merialdi, Medical Officer, Improving Maternal and Perinatal Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Takeshi Morimoto, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Center for Medical Education Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
  • Douglas Noble, Technical Officer, WHO Patient Safety, London, UK
  • Peter Norton, Professor and Head Department of Family Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada
  • Tikki Elka Pang, Director Research Policy and Cooperation, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Nittita Prasopa-Plaizier, Technical Officer, WHO Patient Safety, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Ryan Sidorchuk, Patient Safety Officer, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Winnipeg, Canada
  • Anuwat Supachutikul, Chief Executive Officer, The Institute of Hospital Quality, Improvement and Accreditation, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Eric Thomas, Associate Professor of medicine, University of Texas, Houston, USA
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