Fulfilling the Promise: Advancing Patient Safety and Medical Liability Reform Innovations

This post is part of our two-week series commemorating the 10-year anniversary of the seminal IOM Report "To Err Is Human." To see all posts in the series, please click here.

This Thursday, December 10, 2009 in Washington, D.C., Common Good is hosting a public forum in connection with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ $25 million initiative to test patient safety and medical liability innovations. The event will present information on promising avenues of reform, and will engage national legal, medical, and policy experts, potential applicants, and other interested parties on how to develop viable proposals for submission to the Department in January.

Fulfilling the Promise: Advancing Patient Safety and Medical Liability Reform Innovations will be held between 8:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the National Press Club at 529 14th Street, NW.

Speakers include:

• Lucian Leape, M.D., chair of the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation and an internationally recognized leader on patient safety
• Michelle Mello, J.D., Ph.D., professor of law and public health, Harvard School of Public Health
• Nancy Foster, vice president for quality and patient safety policy, American Hospital Association
• Philip K. Howard, J.D., chair, Common Good

To register for the event, please e-mail your name and contact information to RSVP@commongood.org.

A Webcast of the event will be broadcast at http://www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=64481.