Peter J. Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D. Sr. Vice President for and Quality Director, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality Professor, Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine Phone: 410-502-6127 [email protected]

Dr. Peter Pronovost is a world renowned patient safety champion who has devoted his career to finding ways to make hospitals and health care safer for patients. His research addresses several dimensions of patient safety: translating evidence into practice, identifying and mitigating hazards, measuring and improving safety culture, and program development, measurement and evaluation.

One of Dr. Pronovost’s major accomplishments is the development of a scientifically proven method for reducing the deadly infections associated with central line catheters. His effective five-step checklist for doctors and nurses virtually eliminated these infections and has saved more than 1,500 lives and $100 million annually across the State of . Dr. Pronovost’s checklist protocol is now being implemented in hospitals across the and in several other countries across the world.

It is credited for helping reduce these infections by 60 percent. He is also applying these prevention strategies to other efforts such as surgical-site infections and pneumonias contracted through the use of ventilators.

Dr. Pronovost has chronicled his work to help improve patient safety in his 2010 book, Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor’s Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out. He has published more than 400 articles related to patient safety and the measurement and evaluation of safety efforts. Dr. Pronovost regularly addresses Congress on the importance of patient safety, which prompted a report by the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that strongly endorses his ICU infection prevention program. He is an advisor to the World Health Organizations’ World Alliance for Patient Safety and speaks internationally on the need for rigorous measurement and evaluation of patient safety efforts.

Dr. Pronovost has earned several national recognitions. In 2008, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, or “genius grant,” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, given to those who exhibit exceptional creativity and show the promise to make important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment. That same year, Dr. Pronovost was named one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” for his work in patient safety. He received the 2004 John Eisenberg Patient Safety Research Award. In 2012 Modern Healthcare named Dr. Pronovost the number five most influential executive. That year he was also named a Gilman Scholar, a prestigious designation that recognizes the very best of the best at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Pronovost received his medical degree from The , where he interned in Emergency Medicine. He completed his residency training in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at The , where he was a fellow in Critical Care Medicine. He received his degree in Clinical Investigation from The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Fairfield University. Dr. Pronovost, a practicing anesthesiologist and critical care physician, is Senior Vice President for Patient Safety and Quality and Director of Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine. He is also a professor in the departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Surgery and Health Policy and Management. Dr. Pronovost is Board Certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology and has a subspecialty certificate in Critical Care Medicine.