Dr. Leape was a founding Director of the National Patient Safety Foundation, the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Error, and the Harvard Kennedy School Executive Session. He led the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s first Breakthrough Collaborative on Prevention of Adverse Drug Events. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine Quality of Care in America Committee, which recently released its seminal reports. "To Err is Human" (1999) and "Crossing the Quality Chasm" (2001). Recent awards include: the Distinguished Service Award of the American Pediatric Surgical Association (1997), the Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award (1998), the Donabedian Award from the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association (1999), and honorary fellowship in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (2001). Dr. Leape is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Medical School and trained in surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and at the Boston Children’s Hospital.

• Harvard School of Public Health Website
• A Conversation with Lucian Leape
• Published Articles (NLM)
• IOM: To Err is Human

From 1980-1995 Dr. Bagian served as a NASA astronaut. He took part in both the planning and provision of emergency medical and rescue support for the first six Space Shuttle flights. He also served as the Astronaut Office Coordinator for Space Shuttle payload software and crew equipment, as well as supporting the development of a variety of payloads and participating in the verification of Space Shuttle flight software. In 1986, Dr. Bagian served as an investigator for the Space Shuttle Challenger accident. He was the Astronaut On-Scene Adviser for the salvage operations of the Space Shuttle Challenger crew module and was also the individual who dove and made the positive identification of the Challenger crew module debris on the ocean floor. He has also been responsible for the development program and implementation of the pressure suit used for crew escape and various other crew survival equipment used on Shuttle missions, and was in charge of Shuttle search and rescue planning and implementation for NASA. A veteran of two space flights (STS-29 in 1989 and STS-40 in 1991), Dr. Bagian has logged over 337 hours in space.

Dr. Bagian also served with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 1995-1998 as Deputy Director, Regional and State Programs Division, Office of Mobile Sources. From 1994-1995 he worked as an occupational medicine physician with the Beaumont Hospital (Michigan) Employee Health Service.

Dr. Bagian is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences at F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine and also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch. In addition, he is a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve where he is a pararescue flight surgeon with the 920th Air Rescue Group. Dr. Bagian has been active in the mountain rescue community and has served as a member of the Denali Medical Research Project on Mt. McKinley. He is an Air Force-qualified freefall parachutist, holds a private pilot's license and has logged over 1,500 hours flying time in propeller and jet aircraft, helicopters, and gliders.

He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Doctorate in Letters from Drexel University, and a Doctorate in Medicine from Thomas Jefferson University.

Special honors for Dr. Bagian include the U.S. Army ROTC Superior Cadet Award (1970); graduated first in class from Drexel University (1973); Orthopedics Prize from Jefferson University (1977); Honor Graduate (first in class) from USAF Flight Surgeons School (1979); Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) Komarov Diploma (1989); Sikorsky Helicopter Rescue Award (1990); NASA Achievement Award for developing treatment of space motion sickness (1991); NASA Space Flight Award (1989 and 1991); NASA Exceptional Service Medal (1992); Society of NASA Flight Surgeons W. Randolf Lovelace Award for ''significant contribution to the practice and advancement of aerospace medicine'' (1992); American Astronautical Society's Melbourne W. Boynton Award for ''outstanding contributions to the biomedical aspects of space flight'' (1992); election to the National Academy of Engineering "for integration of engineering and medical knowledge in applications to aerospace systems, environmental technology, and patient safety" (2000); American Medical Association’s Dr. Nathan S. Davis Award for outstanding public service in the advancement of public health (2001); and the Association of American Medical Colleges’ first annual Innovations Award (2001).

• Veterans Health Administration’s National Center for Patient Safety (NCPS)

Dr. Delbanco was previously a senior manager at the Pacific Business Group on Health where she worked on the Quality Team. Prior to joining PBGH, Dr. Delbanco worked on reproductive health policy and the changing healthcare marketplace initiative at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. She has also consulted on healthcare insurance coverage in the temporary employment industry, the first statewide survey in California of Medi-Cal beneficiaries, and worked as a community liaison for Kaiser Permanente, during the establishment of one of California’s first County Organized Health Systems. Dr. Delbanco holds a PHD in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy and a MPH from the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.

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John J. Nance, a native of Texas who grew up in Dallas, holds a Bachelor’s Degree from SMU and a Juris Doctor from SMU School of Law, and is a licensed attorney. A decorated Air Force pilot veteran of Vietnam and Operations Desert Storm/Desert Shield, he is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the USAF Reserve, well known for his involvement in Air Force human factors flight safety education. John has piloted many jet air-craft, including Boeing 727’s, 737’s, 747’s, and Air Force C-141’s and has logged over 13,000 hours of flight time in his commercial airline and Air Force careers. John flies his own aircraft and also continues to serve as a Boeing 737 Captain for a major airline.

John J. Nance is an internationally recognized air safety analyst and advocate, best known to North American television audiences as Aviation Analyst for the ABC Television Network and as the Aviation Editor for Good Morning America. John has also had multiple appearances on Larry King Live, PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Oprah, NPR, NOVA, the Today Show, and many others. John’s editorials have been published in newspapers nationwide, including the Los Angeles Times and USA Today.  He is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who Among Emerging Leaders in America.

John is the nationally-known author of twelve major books, four non-fiction: Splash of Colors, Blind Trust, On Shaky Ground, and What Goes Up, (all published by William Morrow), and eight fiction bestsellers: Final Approach (Crown Publishing, 1990) NTSB investigator Joe Wallingford faces his own personal crises as he works through conflicts and coverups to arrive at the true cause of an airline disaster; Scorpion Strike (Crown Publishing, 1992) a military techno-thriller set after the Gulf War; Phoenix Rising (Crown Publishing, 1994) a gripping novel set against the backdrop of today’s changing airline industry; Pandora’s Clock (Doubleday, 1995; paperback, St. Martin’s Press, 1996) a New York Times Bestseller about a race against time with a doomsday virus threatening the world; Medusa’s Child (Doubleday, 1997; paperback, St. Martin’s Press, 1997) an edge-of-your-seat thriller with five people aboard a cargo jet working desperately against an exotic nuclear weapon which could destroy all the computers in North America; The Last Hostage (Doubleday, 1998) a child’s murder, a father’s rage, and a skyjacked 737 are the challenges facing rookie FBI negotiator, Kat Bronsky, who has 24 hours to bring a killer to justice and save over 130 lives — including her own!; Blackout (Putnam, 2000) FBI Special Agent Kat Bronsky is back and fighting for her life and the lives of seven survivors of a terrorist-caused accident. A sexy thriller with heart stopping action; Headwind (Putnam, 2001) The real-life Pinochet extradition case inspires this international legal thriller peppered with razor-edge escape scenarios and death-defying aviation theatrics. Pandora’s Clock and Medusa’s Child both aired as major, successful two part mini-series on television.

John J. Nance is a well-known international advocate of crew resource management and expanded human performance training and is a dynamic professional speaker/consultant, presenting pivotal programs on Teamwork, Risk Management, Motivation, Coping with Competition, and other topics. He speaks to a wide variety of audiences, including medical and pharmaceutical professionals, CEO’s of major business-oriented corporations, and environmental, aviation, and travel-oriented groups. With his entertaining, highly motivational, yet informative style, he is in demand to give keynote speeches at conventions and symposiums worldwide.

John is a board member of the National Patient Safety Foundation at the American Medical Association.  He lives in Tacoma, Washington.

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