Peter Pronovost

Peter J. Pronovost (born February 22, 1965) is Chief Quality and Transformation Officer at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, the main affiliate of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

He previously served as an intensive care physician and director of the ''Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety'' at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. At Johns Hopkins University, he was Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine as well as Surgery, Professor of Healthcare Management at the Carey Business School, Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Medical Director of the Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care.

He introduced an intensive care checklist protocol that during an 18-month period saved 1500 lives and $100 million in the State of Michigan. According to surgeon Atul Gawande in ''The New Yorker'', Pronovost's "work has already saved more lives than that of any laboratory scientist in the past decade." In 2008 ''Time'' magazine named Pronovost among the 100 most influential people in the world. That same year, Pronovost was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

Pronovost's book ''Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out'' was released in February 2010. Provided by Wikipedia