Carol Haraden, Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
Carol Haraden, PhD, Vice President at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is a member of the team responsible for developing innovative designs in patient care. She leads the IHI portfolio of patient safety programmes in the United Kingdom and Europe. She also developed and led The Health Foundation sponsored Safer Patients Initiative One and Two and currently leads the IHI team developing The Safer Patients Network, a three-year project to improve patient safety in the UK. She also leads the IHI team in the transformation of country-wide patient safety in acute care in Scotland and Denmark and serves as the IHI advisor on safety programme development with the NHS Institute. Carol is the executive lead for the Patient Safety Officer Executive Training Program. She has been a dean in higher education, a clinician, consultant and researcher.
Dr. Haraden has published several papers on measuring patient harm, improving intensive care outcomes and innovation in heathcare design. She recently served on the Institute of Medicine Committee, Engineering Approaches to Improve Health Care. She is a judge for several national quality awards including the Quest for Quality Award sponsored by the AHA and the John Eisenberg Award for Patient Safety and Quality sponsored by the JCAHO. She has served on AHRQ study sections and is a member of the JCAHO Sentinel Event Advisory Committee. She is an associate editor for the journal, Quality and Safety in Health Care.
