Don’t miss the patient safety conference of the year, the Hospital Quality Institute (HQI) Inaugural Annual Conference Nov. 6-7 in Huntington Beach: Accelerate Excellence 2014. The HASC Patient Safety Colloquium was not held earlier this year, so that our quality professionals, nurse leaders, physician champions and executive directors might take advantage of this broader statewide opportunity.

Learn more about this event. Join us and learn from world-class speakers about how we can move the whole state of California from vision to action, evidence to practice, outcome to income, and patient to partner.

Presenters and topics include:

• Barbara M. Balik, EdD, MS, RN: Principal, Common Fire Healthcare Consulting, Senior Faculty at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and member of the National Patient Safety Foundation Board of Governors
• Warren Browner, MD, MPH: CEO of California Pacific Medical Center, Senior Scientist in the CPMC Research Institute and Professor (adjunct) of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at UCSF
• Jeffrey B. Cooper, PhD: Director, Center for Medical Simulation; Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School
• Clifford Y. Ko, MD, MS, MSHS, FACS: Director of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, and Division of Research and Optimal Patient Care American College of Surgeons
• Ian Morrison, PhD: Futurist, author, and President Emeritus, Institute for the Future
• David Perrott, MD, DDS: Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of California Hospital Association
• James L. Reinertsen, MD: Head of The Reinersten Group, winner of the 2011 John L. Eisenberg Individual Achievement Award
• Ronan Tynan, MD: Irish tenor, recording artist, physician, and champion disabled athlete
• Paul Uhlig, MD, MPA, FACS: Cardiothoracic surgeon internationally recognized for practice and study of high reliability health care teamwork and patient/family centered care

Contact: Julia Slininger

(213) 538-0766, jslininger@hasc.org