Advisory Committee
William G. Anlyan, M.D. is Chancellor Emeritus of
M. Roy Schwarz, M.D. received his Bachelor of Science degree of
His administrative posts have included Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Founding Director of the WAMI (Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho) Program at the University of Washington, Director, Experimental Satellite Communications Program of the University of Washington, Dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and Senior Vice President of Medical Education and Science of the American Medical Association.
He is the immediate past President of the China Medical Board of New York, Inc., a private foundation established in 1914 to promote high quality, western medicine in
The author of over 150 articles, books and abstracts, Dr. Schwarz is Chairman of the Board of the
Richard Y. Wang, Ph.D. is Director, MIT Information Quality Program. He has served as a professor at MIT, the
Associates
Brenda Marion Nevidjon, RN, MSN, FAAN is a Clinical Professor and Specialty Director - Nursing and Healthcare Leadership, Duke University School of Nursing. Ms. Nevidjon has had an extraordinary nursing career of leadership in service and education. It is distinguished by her being the first nurse and first woman to be chief operating officer of Duke University Hospital and being in the inaugural class of the Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Executive Program. Through diverse clinical and administrative experiences in Canada, Switzerland and the United States, she has devoted her energy to bridging practice settings and academic environments to advance patient care, creating innovative work environments, promoting scholarship in practitioners, and developing leaders. She also has helped develop professional nursing organizations at the local, national, and international levels and has made lasting contributions to the Oncology Nursing Society. She not only has contributed extensively to the nursing literature, but is regarded as a mentor for nurses to develop their power and voice through publication. Her diverse contributions include two volumes of oncology nurses’ narratives, Building a Legacy – Voices of Oncology Nurses, and Continuing the Legacy – More Voices of Oncology Nurses, as well as books, articles and chapters on oncology topics. She also has published articles and book chapters on administrative topics, such as the role of advanced practice nurses and the nursing shortage. Through the latter, she has captured the interest of students considering a nursing career. She has been elected as president elect of the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS). This is the largest professional oncology organization in the world with more than 34,000 registered nurses and other healthcare providers dedicated to excellence in patient care, education, research, and administration in oncology nursing. Ms. Nevidjon assumed the role of president in 2008 and will continue to serve in that capacity through 2010.
Stan Davis is a Board Certified OB-GYN with 24 years of experience in delivering babies. He is a graduate of St. Olaf College, the University of Minnesota Medical School, and finished his residency in Reproductive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. Upon completion, he spent one year as a Post-Doctoral Scholar in Fetal and Placental Pathology under the direction of Dr. Kurt Benirschke at UCSD. His medical career has been given to reducing fetal and neonatal harm. Stan has spent the last 4 years as a Medical Quality Consultant with Fairview Health Services in Minneapolis. He has worked on an AHRQ grant studying the impact of teamwork in obstetrics, and has served as faculty for the Premier Perinatal Patient Safety Project, currently involving 18 hospitals working to achieve “Zero Birth Injuries”. He is also faculty for TEAMSTEPPS training of Quality Improvement Organizations across the country. He has written and lectured nationally and internationally on teamwork, communication, and simulation in obstetrics including the IHI National Forum, ICSI, Premier National “Breakthroughs”, and the Quality Colloquium on the campus of Harvard University. He has been a leader in the development of in situ simulation, a dynamic in-house form of simulation that employs experiential learning around teamwork and communication and serves as a powerful tool for understanding latent process failures in hospital units.
Peter Anlyan built teams during 20 years of corporate life. Having been an organizational development catalyst for clients in health care, higher education, state and county government, and the corporate sector, his work in Top Ten Hospitals includes a broad range of programs, from aligning leadership teams to training staff in enhanced communications skills to coaching physicians to be more effective team members. His focus is enhancing the effectiveness of Quality and Patient Safety teams. He authored the Fulcrum Leaders and Team programs for organizations that want to more effectively connect managers and teams to the organization's mission, strategies and outcomes. He is certified in the American Hospital Association & Center for Healthcare Governance Quality Curriculum for Trustees. He also has certifications in MBTI, Crucial Conversations, and Coaching and Organizational Learning, Tilt360, The Tipping Point Simulation, and is a trainer of The Leadership Challenge program. Peter has chaired, co-chaired or served on over a dozen organizational boards and is currently a director of the RTP Chapter of the Association of Psychological Type and Triangle Organizational Development Network. He was a founding leadership coach with Leadership Triangle. Peter is Co-chair of the MIT Information Quality Industry Symposium which entered its first year of collaboration with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in 2009.
