Our Movement

In January, Dr. Michael Ramsay succeeds Dr. David Mayer as the organization’s Chief Executive Officer. In April, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation holds their first virtual annual summit. In June, Dr. Sanaz Massoumi becomes the new Chief Operating Officer to lead the operation of the foundation.

Key global healthcare leaders, including Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO, join us for our Unite for Safe Care virtual event to celebrate WHO Global Patient Safety Day and to help address patient safety across the globe. Over a dozen patient safety advocates representing the Patient Safety Movement Foundation gather at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, to march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol building to bring awareness to patient safety.

The Patient Safety Movement Foundation launches the #uniteforsafecare campaign in June, honoring the millions of lives lost every year due to preventable medical errors. Over 50 speakers share their heart-wrenching stories of survival and loss via a virtual event on World Patient Safety Day in September. The new initiative encourages our committed hospitals to further integrate Actionable Evidence-Based Practices to create safe and reliable healthcare systems with ZERO preventable harm by 2030.

In January, the annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit is held in Southern California, featuring distinguished keynote speakers that include President Bill Clinton, Dr. Peter Pronovost, Dr. Steven Scheinman, and Dr. Daniel Cole.

The 6th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology’s Summit is held in London at the invitation of UK’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Rt. Hon. Jeremy Hunt, bringing together stakeholders from 25 countries.

President Bill Clinton is appointed Global Chair at the 5th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. Featured speakers include Dr. Richard Carmona, Dr. Thomas Zeltner, Rt. Hon. Jeremy Hunt, Dr. Didier Pittet, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, and Senator Robert Casey Jr.

The annual Summit is renamed the World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. Medtronic signs the Open Data Pledge and becomes a benefactor, granting the Patient Safety Movement Foundation $1 million a year through 2020.

Then Vice President Joe Biden provides the keynote presentation at the 3rd Annual Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. President Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn Carter become Patient Safety Movement Foundation supporters by offering a special prize to organizations that save many lives.

Hospitals in Canada and Lithuania become the first international organizations to make commitments. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation becomes a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

The Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s goal of ZERO preventable patient deaths is announced at the Clinton Global Initiative by Founder and Chairman Joe Kiani. Intermountain Healthcare becomes the first hospital to make a commitment to ZERO at the evening break. The inaugural Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit sells out, drawing over 300 attendees.

Joe Kiani, Founder and CEO of Masimo, announces the creation of a Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit to unify the healthcare ecosystem and develop an action and commitment-oriented approach to eliminating preventable patient death. In June, he travels to Africa with President Bill Clinton, who commits to supporting the mission to achieve ZERO preventable deaths. The Masimo Foundation for Ethics, Innovation, and Competition in Healthcare becomes the founding sponsor of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. The foundation brings together renowned patient safety experts to create Actionable Evidence-Based Practices.