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Marjorie Thomas, MPA, ARM, FASHRM, CPHRM, RPLU<br />

Marjorie Thomas is Senior Vice President for Risk Management and<br />

Underwriting with Administrators for the Professions, Inc. (AFP),<br />

Attorney-in-Fact for Physicians’ Reciprocal Insurers (PRI). With the<br />

organization since 1985, she has developed innovative patient<br />

safety programming that has energized the field of health care<br />

risk management, with an emphasis on ambulatory care practice.<br />

She serves as a member of the team that develops and delivers<br />

educational programs to PRI’s insured physicians. Previously, Ms.<br />

Thomas established the risk management department at New<br />

York’s Bellevue Hospital. Ms. Thomas holds a master’s degree in<br />

public administration (health care). She has also earned several<br />

risk management and insurance designations and is a fellow of the<br />

American Society for Healthcare Risk Management. Ms. Thomas<br />

is a co-author of Practicing Medicine in Difficult Times: Protecting<br />

Physicians from Malpractice Litigation, published in 2009.<br />

Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD<br />

Kevin Volpp is a staff physician at the Philadelphia VA Medical<br />

Center, Director of the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral<br />

Economics at the Leonard Davis Institute, Director of the University<br />

of Pennsylvania Health System Center for Innovations in Health Care<br />

Financing, and Professor of Medicine and Health Care Management<br />

at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School,<br />

University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Volpp’s widely published research<br />

focuses on the impact of financial and organizational incentives<br />

on health outcomes. He has served as an advisor to a number<br />

of organizations, including the Veterans Administration, the<br />

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the National<br />

Institutes of Health, CVS Caremark, Ascension Health, and McKinsey<br />

& Company, and is a member of the editorial board of the Annals of<br />

Internal Medicine.<br />

www.baxter.com<br />

2012 <strong>NPSF</strong> CONGRESS FACULTY<br />

Mary J. Voutt-Goos, MSN, RN, CCRN<br />

Mary Voutt-Goos is Director of <strong>Patient</strong> <strong>Safety</strong> Initiatives and Clinical<br />

Care Design in the Office of Clinical Quality and <strong>Safety</strong> of the Henry<br />

Ford Health System. She has 27 years of health care experience,<br />

including 21 years specializing in adult critical care as a clinician<br />

and educator. Her current responsibilities include clinical process<br />

and safety curricula design, safety culture efforts, and oversight<br />

of a <strong>Safety</strong> Champion program. She is a founding member of the<br />

Henry Ford Health System’s No Harm Steering Committee and<br />

helped establish rapid response and in-situ mock code team training<br />

programs. Ms. Voutt-Goos is certified in adult critical care and holds<br />

a master of science in nursing degree with focus on quality and<br />

outcomes performance.<br />

Deborah Wachenheim, MPP<br />

Deborah Wachenheim is the Health Quality Manager at Health Care<br />

for All (HCFA) in Boston. In this position, she is working to involve<br />

consumers in advocacy for health care quality improvement in<br />

Massachusetts. She also represents HCFA on the advisory committee<br />

to the Massachusetts Quality and Cost Council; on the Massachusetts<br />

Healthcare-Associated Infections Technical Advisory Group; and<br />

at various quality workgroups. She has presented about her work<br />

at the annual Families USA Conference and the National <strong>Patient</strong><br />

<strong>Safety</strong> Foundation’s Annual <strong>Congress</strong>. Ms. Wachenheim holds a<br />

master’s degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of<br />

Government at Harvard University.<br />

Anthony Weiss, MD, MBA<br />

Anthony Weiss is Director of Quality Management within the<br />

Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry, and the<br />

Associate Director of Health Services <strong>Research</strong> at Partners Psychiatry<br />

and Mental Health. In addition, he maintains an active psychiatric<br />

practice and serves on a number of key health care quality- and<br />

safety-related committees at the departmental, hospital, and<br />

system-wide levels<br />

Join us next year for<br />

the 15th Annual<br />

<strong>NPSF</strong> PATIENT<br />

SAFETY CONGRESS<br />

at the Hyatt Regency,<br />

New Orleans,<br />

May 8-10, 2013<br />

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<strong>NPSF</strong> Annual <strong>Patient</strong> <strong>Safety</strong> <strong>Congress</strong> 2012

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