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Ronald Wyatt
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has appointed Ronald Wyatt, MD, MHA, as Chief Medical Officer, a newly created leadership position. Dr. Wyatt will help shape IHI's clinical perspective and strategy, bringing scientific credibility, frontline insight and proven leadership to its global work in improving health and health care.
He was the first Patient Safety Officer at The Joint Commission, where he developed sentinel event analysis, led the team behind the widely referenced Patient Safety Systems Chapter and created the Quick Safety publication.
He has served as Chief Quality Officer at Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar and at Cook County Health in Chicago, as Medical Director of the US Defense Health Agency's Patient Safety Center, and as Chief Science and Medical Officer at the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine.
Dr. Wyatt is also an IHI Senior Fellow and a former co-chair of IHI's Health Equity Initiative.
