Senior Nurse Scientist, Program Director for Research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Dr. Dykes’ expertise includes medical informatics, patient safety, and clinical decision support. Dykes and her team developed Fall TIPS, a decision-support and communication intervention for use by the care team, patients and family members to prevent patient falls. Over a six-month randomized-controlled trial, the use of Fall TIPS reduced in-hospital falls by 25%. In addition, she is conducting research on the bedside data needs and preferences of hospitalized patients, and evaluating the use of patient-centered technology for patient engagement in their plan of care and adverse event prevention.

David W. Bates, M.D., M.Sc. Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis, Partners HealthCare

Dr. Bates is an internationally renowned expert in patient safety, using information technology to improve care, quality-of-care, cost-effectiveness, and outcomes assessment in medical practice. He is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he co-directs the Program in Clinical Effectiveness. He directs the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He served as external program lead for research in the World Health Organization’s Global Alliance for Patient Safety and is the immediate past president of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) and the editor of the Journal of Patient Safety. He has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians and the American College of Medical Informatics, and was chairman of the Board of the American Medical Informatics Association. He has published over 700 peer-reviewed papers and has an h-index of 115, which ranks him among the 400 most cited biomedical researchers of any type.

Project Coordinator, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care

Zoe oversees the quantitative data used to analyze the public health impact of integrating the Fall TIPS program into hospitals with diverse patient populations. This includes evaluating the effectiveness of Fall TIPS in reducing inpatient falls and fall related injuries, as well as the costs, benefits, and satisfaction associated with the program. She has experience in healthcare operations, process improvement, and clinical program development/implementation. Her work has focused on quality improvement, the patient experience, and patient safety.

Nurse Scientist in the Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Carroll has maintained programs of research that focuses on fall prevention, improving cardiovascular patient-care outcomes in acute care settings, and translated knowledge into practice by creating environments were nurses can ask questions generated from the bedside and that can be answered in mentored research experiences. Dr. Carroll was a co-investigator on the randomized clinical trial of Fall TIPS. She has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 4 book chapters, and has presented her research at a number of regional, national and international research conferences. Dr. Carroll is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the European Society of Cardiology, and the American Heart Association.

Research Assistant, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care

Taylor is a Research Assistant working with Dr. Dykes on two fall prevention projects: the Patient Safety Learning Lab (PSLL) study and the STRIDE (Strategies to Reduce Injuries and Develop Confidence in Elders) Study. Her primary focus on the PSLL project is Patient Activation, and how Fall TIPS influences a patient’s knowledge, skill, and confidence in their fall prevention.
In the STRIDE Study, Taylor works as the Site Coordinator for the Partners site. This clinical trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of using evidence-based strategies to reduce serious fall-related injuries in older adults.

Research Assistant, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care

Megan is a research assistant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School with a passion for patient safety. She has worked on an AHRQ-funded Patient Safety Learning Lab study. Her primary focus is fall prevention and dissemination of the evidence-based Fall TIPS Toolkit, which is shared with outside institutions through continuing education workshops and webinars. Here responsibilities are increasingly focused on spread; she have presented the evidence nationally and shared the toolkit with more than 100 institutions that plan to pilot Fall TIPS.

Senior Nurse Scientist, Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of General and Internal Medicine

Ann C. Hurley, RN, DNSc, FAAN, FGSA conducts patient safety research as a member of Dr. Patricia Dykes’ teams to “first, ‘do no harm.

Three programs of research characterize Dr. Hurley’s career: diabetes self-care management, caring for persons with advanced dementia, and promoting patient safety. She has led and been a team member of several projects that developed valid and reliable scales needed to answer crucial questions. She has developed two and modified one scale to learn the impact of self-efficacy on self-care management of diabetes. As part of a team led by Dr. Ladislav Volicer to conduct clinical and ethical research to improve the care of persons with advanced dementia, she developed several scales that have been translated into multiple languages, of which 9 in English are reproduced in a 2015 measurement text. Working with Dr. Dykes she has continued the recovery from medical errors work, developed scales to facilitate nursing informatics research, evaluated patient/family and system impacts of bringing health care technology to the bedside of hospitalized patients, and conducted research on falls prevention.

Research Assistant, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care

Srijesa is a Research Assistant working with Dr. Dykes on the Generalizabliity and Spread of an Evidence-Based Fall Prevention Toolkit: Fall TIPS. This is a multisite project in collaboration with New York-Presbyterian and Montefiore Healthcare systems to spread the Fall TIPS program. She has worked on the qualitative aspect of developing the Fall Prevention toolkit, through interviewing patients and staff through the Partners Healthcare system. She has assisted Dr. Dykes with numerous webinars, presentations, and workshops interested in implementing Fall TIPS across the country. She is currently a medical student at the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine. Most recently, she worked on qualitative study exploring the facilitators and barriers to Fall TIPS use during the start of Covid-19 pandemic.

Clinical Nurse at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital

Virginia Ryan, MSN, RN, is a clinical nurse with 33 years’ experience at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital (BWFH) and holds a master’s degree in nursing leadership. As a leader, she actively participates in Shared Governance, Chairs the Nursing Quality Committee, and is passionate about fall prevention. Currently, she is the Fall TIPS Implementation leader at BWFH. With her guidance and enthusiasm about Fall TIPS, there has been a significant decrease in the number of inpatient falls in the first six months of execution. Virginia can be reached at vryan2@bwh.harvard.edu

Senior Vice President, Chief Nurse Executive, Montefiore | Einstein (Montefiore Health System)

Ms. Scanlan provides strategic oversight of Nursing across the Montefiore health system, one of the nation’s most comprehensive, integrated health systems providing care to residents of the Bronx, Westchester, and Rockland Counties.

With a background in nursing informatics, she has implemented various data-driven initiatives to transform Montefiore’s patient care. Among her many accomplishments, Ms. Scanlan leads the revision of the nursing strategic plan for nursing services to implement strategies in alignment with Montefiore’s goals to support Montefiore’s patient-centered care delivery model.

Ms. Scanlan has a strong record of developing and implementing research, evidence-based practice, and reduction in adverse clinical outcomes including implementing an evidence-based fall reduction initiative, TIPS (Tailored Interventions for Patient Safety), and co-authored an article on “Pilot Testing Fall TIPS (Tailoring Interventions for Patient Safety): A Patient-Centered Fall Prevention Toolkit” that was published in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety 2017 (June 2017). She is also Montefiore’s Site Principal Investigator for two AHRQ grants “Generalizability and spread of an evidence-based fall prevention tool kit: Falls TIPS” and “Patient Safety Learning Laboratory: To engage patients, family, caregivers and providers in the design and development of a fall prevention toolkit.” This practice is now utilized in five Montefiore hospitals.

Ms. Scanlan is a transformative, collaborative leader who unites nurses, physicians, administrators, and clinicians to elevate the quality of patient care across a growing health system.

Assistant Director Nursing Quality/ Professional Practice

Lois Alfieri has been involved in multiple initiatives that optimize patient safety through collaborative practice and evidenced based research. She was integrally involved in the TIPS (Tailored Interventions for Patient Safety) rollout and continues to be a valuable resource for staff for this initiative. Currently, she is the Co-chair of the Montefiore Fall Steering Committee and is instrumental in assuring that fall prevention at Montefiore is guided by the TIPS framework.

Associate Professor in the Division of Geriatrics, Clinician Educator, and Hospitalist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center

Dr. Michael Bogaisky is an Associate Professor in the Division of Geriatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY where he is a hospitalist and clinician educator. He is a former recipient of a Geriatrics Academic Career Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration focusing on the prevention of hospital associated adverse events in hospitalized older adults. His interests are in evidence-based medicine, fall prevention and mobility promotion in hospitalized older adults.

Chief Patient Safety Officer, Associate Chief Quality Officer, and Director of Patient Safety Research at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center

Dr. Adelman is Chief Patient Safety Officer, Associate Chief Quality Officer, and Director of Patient Safety Research at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Adelman completed the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) – Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship, is faculty at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and serves on the editorial board for the Journal for Healthcare Quality. As Director of the Columbia University Medical Center Patient Safety Research Program, Dr. Adelman is funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to lead multiple research projects focused on Health IT Safety, Medication Safety, and General Patient Safety. Dr. Adelman was awarded the Institute for Safe Medication Practice (ISMP) CHEERS Award for setting a standard of excellence in the prevention of medication errors, the Lorraine Tregde Patient Safety Leadership Award for taking extraordinary and innovative steps to improve patient safety, and in 2017 was Named One of Fifty Leading National Patient Safety Experts by Becker’s Hospital Review.

Nurse Researcher at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Assistant Professor of Nursing at Columbia University Medical Center

Dr. Carter advances formal collaborations between service and academia and mentors professional nurses in activities of clinical scholarship. Dr. Carter is an emergency department nurse by background and her clinical experiences inform her research, which examines and explores the nurses’ role in optimizing patient care.

Chief Nursing Officer and Vice President of Patient Care Services at NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital

As the Chief Nursing Officer and Vice President of Patient Care Services, Ms Jackson provides strategic oversight for nursing, respiratory therapy, and case management at NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP) Hudson Valley Hospital in northern Westchester County.

With a background in operational excellence and process improvement, she coaches, empowers, and mentors staff and leadership in their implementation and evaluation of continuous process improvement. Among her many accomplishments, she was responsible for the design, implementation, and spread of the NYP Daily Management System, including visibility boards and daily tiered huddles. In addition, she played a key role in Fall TIPS implementation for all of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital campuses and regional hospital campuses.

Ms Jackson received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Business Operational Excellence and her Six Sigma Black Belt from The Ohio State University.

Director, Center for Patient Safety Research at Columbia University

Dr. Lehman is the Director of the Center for Patient Safety Research where she is responsible for overall operations including grant and contract activities. Previously, she was the Director of Quality and Patient Safety at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University overseeing Columbia Milstein, The Allen Hospital and Lawrence Hospital. Prior to joining NYPH, she was the Director of Clinical Communities at The Johns Hopkins’ Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. She earned her DrPH in Health Policy and Management from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and her MS in Health Policy and Administration from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Quality and Patient Safety Specialist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University

Shao is responsible for implementation of inpatient quality and patient safety initiatives across multiple campuses, and was the lead project manager in implementing Fall TIPS at NYPH. Prior to her joining NYPH, she was the Director of Outreach and Quality Improvement in the Diabetes Prevention and Control Program at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She earned her MPH in Sociomedical Sciences from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.