Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD. Director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality.
In addition to his role at the Armstrong Institute, Dr. Pronovost is the senior vice president for patient safety and quality for Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine. As the formulator of a widely used checklist protocol that is credited with saving thousands of lives and hundreds of millions of dollars in healthcare costs, Dr. Pronovost is a leading authority patient safety worldwide. He has been named one of the world's most influential people by Time magazine, was granted a MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant" in 2008 and regularly advocates for the importance of patient safety to congress. Dr. Pronovost has written more than 400 articles and chapters on patient safety and the evaluation of efforts to improve the patient experience.