Stephen Lawless, MD. Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer at Nemours Children's Health System (Jacksonville, Fla.).
Dr. Lawless is a pediatric physician and a professor of pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia in addition to his role at Nemours, a system with locations in Florida, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. His quality and safety responsibilities at Nemours Children's include infection control, clinical outcomes and risk management. Dr. Lawless represents Nemours with the National Quality Forum and has presented on the subject of healthcare quality at many national forums. Dr. Lawless helped lead the first collaboration between the America Academy of Pediatrics, the Children's' Hospital Association and the American Board of Pediatrics to produce national pediatric quality and safety guidelines that were then adopted by the Joint Commission ORYX initiative.