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.