Dr. Peter Pronovost Named To Time Magazine's
100 Most Influential People 2008

For his groundbreaking work in the area of patient safety, Johns Hopkins anesthesiologist Dr. Peter Pronovost has been named by the editors of Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world for 2008. Time's annual list of the world's most influential people includes categories for leaders, revolutionaries, thinkers, heroes, pioneers, artists, entertainers, builders, titans and scientists. Dr. Peter Pronovost is currently leading several large national and international safety projects. His innovative work to improve patient safety and care provided the needed momentum for the global medical community to begin to make important changes in how they approach their daily work.

Dr. Pronovost was recently profiled in The New Yorker article "The Checklist: If Something So Simple Can Transform Intensive Care, What Else Can It Do?". Peter Pronovost's checklist illustrates how the world's health care community can reduce infections in complex environments like the intensive care unit with steps as simple as a checklist.

 

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• The New Yorker: “The Checklist”
• National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered”
• "Points from Pronovost: Embracing Family in Patient Care"
• Dr. Peter Pronovost's Testimony before the Government Oversight Committee
• World Health Organization: "Peter Pronovost Recognised by Time Magazine"
• Wikipedia: Dr. Peter Pronovost
• "Treating Safety Research Like Other Clinical Studies Slows Progress"
• JHU Gazette: "Time Names Patient Safety Expert One of Most Influential"

Make A Donation

If you would like to support Dr. Pronovost's research, please Make A Donation online and designate the "Peter Pronovost Patient Safety Research Fund". You may also send your tax-deductible contributions payable to "Patient Safety Fund" to:

Patient Safety Fund
The Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine
100 North Charles Street, Suite 437
Baltimore, Maryland 21201

Learn More

• Johns Hopkins Quality and Safety Research Group Website
• Johns Hopkins Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care
• Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., Medical Director: Bio
• Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., Medical Director: Curriculum Vitae

Current Research

• Patient safety
• Quality improvement
• Evidence-based practice
• Critical care
• ICU incident reporting system
• ICU physician staffing standard
• System measures of performance

Contact Information

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine
Quality & Safety Research Group
1909 Thames Street - 2nd Floor
Baltimore, MD 21231

Phone: (443) 287-2279
Fax: (410)502-3235
Email: safetyresearch@jhmi.edu