Dr. Lucian Leape will be writing the foreword for the children’s charity/anthology book titled ‘HIGHWAY TO HEART, HUMOR, and HONESTY IN HEALTHCARE’ and we are thrilled to have such an esteemed ‘father of patient safety’ to introduce the contents.
Lucian L. Leape, M.D., is Adjunct Professor of Health Policy, Harvard School of Public Health, and Consultant, The RAND Corporation. A pediatric surgeon by training, Dr. Leape has devoted the last 15 years to the challenge of improving patient safety in the United States health care system.
Dr. Leape has contributed a substantive body of research on medical error and has been a tireless advocate for patient safety in a variety of leadership roles—and is rightly often called “the father of patient safety.”
Dr. Leape’s publications on the epidemiology of medical error in the early-to-mid-1990s set the stage for current work in the field. His essential 1994 article, “Error in Medicine,” introduced the concept of systemsrather than individual-based failures as the cause of medical errors and explored the effects of errors on the individuals who made them.
Dr. Leape’s work has helped enormously to disseminate the concepts of human factors and systems thinking, paving the way for large-scale improvements within the health care industry.
As a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Quality of Care Committee, he contributed to the landmark reports To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, which have provided a durable framework for improvement. Dr. Leape remains a constant motivating force for the patient safety movement.
Listen to one of Dr. Leape’s conversations with Pat Rullo
Speak Up and Stay Alive Radio.