Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD

Chief Quality & Clinical Transformation Officer, University Hospitals

Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine and School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University

Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, is a world-renowned patient safety champion, innovator, critical care physician, a prolific researcher (publishing over 800 peer review publications), entrepreneur (founding a healthcare start-up that was acquired),  and a global thought leader, informing US and global health policy. His scientific work leveraging checklists to reduce catheter-related bloodstream infections has saved thousands of lives and earned him high-profile accolades, including being named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine, receiving a coveted MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” in 2008.

Dr. Pronovost currently serves as the Chief Quality & Clinical Transformation Officer for University Hospitals, a comprehensive health system with a national reputation for providing world class healthcare, research and education. Headquartered in Cleveland, University Hospitals has annual revenues of $4.4 billion, 20 hospitals, more than 50 health centers and outpatient facilities, and over 200 physician offices located throughout 16 counties.

As Chief Quality & Clinical Transformation Officer, Dr. Pronovost is charged with fostering ideation and implementation for new protocols to eliminate defects in value and thereby enhance quality of care; developing new frameworks for population health management for UH’s more than one million patients; and managing the UH Accountable Care Network – one of the nation’s largest –  comprising more than 581,000 members. In this role, Dr. Pronovost leads the system in championing a new narrative that focuses on Keeping People Healthy at Home. Utilizing his previously successful concept of checklists, Dr. Pronovost created a new list of key principles for eliminating defects in value and has incorporated the framework into an analytic platform integrating claims, electronic medical record (EMR), and scheduling data, to make defects in value visible to clinicians. In just 12 months, this work fueled a reduction in annual costs per patient in the UH ACO by 9 percent.

Dr. Pronovost also serves as a Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and School of Nursing. 

Previously, Dr. Pronovost served as the Senior Vice President for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine as well as the founder and director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. In this role, he worked to eliminate all harms in one health system following on his success in eliminating one harm in most health systems across the U.S. Dr. Pronovost also served as the Senior Vice President for Clinical Strategy and the Chief Medical officer for UnitedHealthcare. 

Dr. Pronovost was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2011, elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and has received multiple honorary degrees. Dr. Pronovost is an advisor to the World Health Organizations’ World Alliance for Patient Safety and regularly addresses the U.S. Congress on patient safety issues. In response to a White House executive order, Dr. Pronovost co-chaired the Healthcare Quality Summit to modernize the Department of Health and Human Services quality measurement system. 

Dr. Pronovost earned his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. He completed his anesthesiology and critical care medicine residency as well as a fellowship in critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He earned his PhD in Clinical Investigation from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Richard Gannotta

Chief Healthcare Administrative Advisor
Masimo

Rick Gannotta has been an industry leader in healthcare administration for more than twenty years. He’s held senior leadership roles at Duke Raleigh Hospital, NYC Health + Hospitals, and University of California, Irvine (UCI) Health before joining Masimo as Chief Healthcare Administration Advisor. Rick possesses a deep expertise in leading healthcare enterprises in highly competitive markets, as well as insight into healthcare economics strategy, market development, patient safety, innovation, and transformation. In his role at Masimo, he is charged with advancing the organization’s clinical strategy, hospital and health system partnerships, and key product initiatives.