Noted Patient Advocate Joins National Patient Safety Foundation Think Tank

The National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute welcomed Sue Sheridan, MBA, MIM, DHL, as a member at the beginning of September.

 

Ms. Sheridan, director of patient engagement for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), is widely known in the patient safety field as an advocate and leading voice for patient engagement in health care. In her current role, she is involved in the development and implementation of tools, programs, and processes to encourage meaningful engagement of patients and other stakeholders in all of PCORI’s activities including the research that it funds.

 

Ms. Sheridan has contributed to raising awareness of medical errors and patient safety at the national and international level. She cofounded and is past president of Parents of Infants and Children with Kernicterus, a condition in which jaundice leads to brain damage. She is also a co-founder of Consumers Advancing Patient Safety, a nonprofit organization focused on enhancing partnerships between consumers, health professionals, and the broader health care system, and she has worked with the World Health Organization.

 

“I am honored to join the NPSF Lucian Leape Institute,” said Ms. Sheridan. “The inclusion of the patient perspective in the LLI demonstrates their commitment to the value of partnerships with patients and the patient community to help create a safer, more compassionate, and just health care system.”

 

The NPSF Lucian Leape Institute functions as a think tank to provide vision and context for health care safety efforts. Its work focuses on identifying and framing vital transforming concepts that require system-level attention and action. Ms. Sheridan’s experience as a patient and family advocate adds an important perspective to a group with broad expertise in the patient safety field.

 

“Sue Sheridan has made incredible contributions to the patient safety field,” said Tejal K. Gandhi, MD, MPH, CPPS, president and chief executive officer, NPSF, and president of the NPSF Lucian Leape Institute. “I know I speak for all of the Institute members in saying how pleased we are to have her join us and share her experience and insight.”

 

 

More information about the NPSF Lucian Leape Institute is available here.