The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center SPEAKER SERIES: "The Power of Apology" Lecture, May 18, 2005
Lucian L. Leape, MD, is an Adjunct Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard in 1988, he was Professor of Surgery and Chief of Pediatric Surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine. He has been an outspoken advocate of the non-punitive systems approach to the prevention of medical errors and the need to make patient safety a national priority. Dr. Leape was one of the founders of the National Patient Safety Foundation, the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Error, and the Harvard Kennedy School Executive Session on Medical Error. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Quality of Care in America Committee, which published “To Err is Human” in 1999 and “Crossing the Quality Chasm” in 2001. He has published over 100 papers on quality of care and patient safety. In 2004, he received the John Eisenberg Patient Safety Award from the JCAHO and National Quality Forum, and Modern Healthcare named him as one of the 100 most powerful people in health care.
Mary Dana Gershanoff is the co-chair of the Adult Patient & Family Advisory Council at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She was successfully treated there for breast cancer in 2000-2001. Mary Dana has an MBA from the University of Chicago and worked for IBM for more than 30 years.
Gary Jernegan is the co-chair of the Pediatric Patient & Family Advisory Council at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. His advocacy of better relationships and communication between patients, families and medical caregivers began when his youngest daughter was treated at DFCI / CHB from 1997-1999. Gary lives in Ipswich, MA.
Linda Kenney founded Medically Induced Trauma Support Services (MITSS) in June of 2002 after nearly losing her life as a result of a medical trauma. This experience demonstrated to her the great need for support services after an adverse medical event -- for patients and families as well as clinicians. Linda has been on the provider side of health care services, having worked in hospitals in various capacities. Linda has made it her mission to generate awareness regarding the need for support in cases of medical trauma. She has spoken regularly at numerous health care forums on the topic.
Georges Peter, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics at Brown Medical School and was the Director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Rhode Island Hospital/Hasbro Children’s Hospital from 1976 to 2004. He also was formerly Vice-Chair for Faculty Affairs in the Department of Pediatrics at Brown. He is Board-certified in pediatrics and in pediatric infectious diseases, and his major sub-specialty interest is in childhood immunizations. He has been a member of national committees of the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics, the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society, and the Department of Health and Human Services, including the National Vaccine Advisory Committee and the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. He is currently a member of a major World Health Organization committee.
Dr. Peter is a graduate of Harvard College, Dartmouth Medical School, and Harvard Medical School, and trained at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, the National Institutes of Health, and Children’s Hospital, Boston. He joined the Brown faculty in 1972.
Carolyn McClintock Peter retired in 2004, after 16 years as Director of the Winsor School, Boston. Prior to that, she was an English teacher at several independent schools, and was Department Head and Head of Upper School at Lincoln School in Providence, RI. As head of school, Carolyn led Winsor to become a more diverse and inclusive community while also advancing its academic program.
She presently serves on a number of independent school boards, including that of Beacon Academy, an innovative school for bright and motivated urban 8th graders, which will open in the Longwood Medical Area in July 2005. Carolyn is a graduate of Wellesley College and Brown University. She and her husband, Georges Peter, MD, have been married for 40 years and have two children and two grandchildren. They live in Brookline, MA.
