Achieving health equity: A patient safety imperative

Author's Biography

Ronald Wyatt , MD MHA, Founder and CEO of Achieving Health Equity, LLC., and a Senior Fellow IHI. He is an internationally known equity, safety and quality expert. Dr Wyatt was the first co-chair of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Equity Advisory Group and is faculty for the IHI Pursuing Equity Initiative. After serving as the Medical Director for the US Defense Health Agency/Military Health System Patient Safety Analysis Center, he became the first medical director of The Joint Commission (TJC) Office of Quality and Patient Safety and the first patient safety officer for The Joint Commission. While at TJC, Dr Wyatt led the team that wrote the Patient Safety Systems Chapter, contributed to sentinel event alerts and created the Quick Safety publication. He served as technical adviser on the RCA2 document that has been widely adopted as a guide to completing a root cause analysis. Currently, Dr Wyatt is faculty/ adviser/coach on multiple health equity collaboratives.