Archived Events

What Works: Reducing Diagnostic Error

CRICO/RMF Strategies Symposium
Boston Marriott Cambridge
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Monday, June 4, 2007     7:30 am – 4:00 pm
Tuesday, June 5, 2007    8:30 am – 12:00 noon

Facilitator and Speakers

Facilitator
Saul N. Weingart, MD, PHD
Vice President for Patient Safety, Director of the Center for Patient Safety, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston.

How Doctors Think
Jerome Groopman, MD
Chief of Experimental Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Author, and staff writer in medicine and biology to The New Yorker.
Dr. Jerome Groopman, was featured on NPR's "Fresh Air" program with Terry Gross on 3.14.2007. Click here for story.

Diagnosis Error: Epidemiology, Concepts, and Taxonomy
Gordon Schiff, MD

Director of Clinical Quality Research and Improvement, Department of Medicine,
Cook County Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Rush.

What Malpractice Data Tell Us about Diagnostic Errors
Tejal K. Gandhi, MD, MPH
Director of Patient Safety at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston.