Karen Frush, MD. Vice President of Quality of LifePoint Health (Brentwood, Tenn.).
Dr. Frush graduated summa cum laude from University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing in 1981, and from the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C., in 1986. In 1992, Dr. Frush returned to Duke where she is currently an associate professor of pediatrics and an assistant professor in the school of nursing. Dr. Frush finished the National Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship program and was subsequently named chief patient safety officer of the Duke University Health System in November 2004. Dr. Frush was the first pediatrician to be named to the North Carolina State Emergency Medical Services advisory board. She served the board for 11 years.