Speaking Engagements
September 9 -11, 2024
Robin Betts, RN, CPHQ, MBA-HA, speaks at NAHQ NEXT 2024, September 9 – 11, 2024. The National Association of Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) is hosting a virtual event centered on the theme “Leadership’s Commitment to Quality & Safety.” Robin serves as a keynote speaker alongside Carrie Owen-Plietz, EVP and CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Hospitals Northern California. Furthermore, Robin addresses the audience on the subject of “Leveraging Data and Tools to Cultivate Quality Professionals: Deploying the NAHQ Workforce Accelerator Tool.”
September 5-6, 2024
Michael A.E. Ramsay, MD, FRCA, speaks at the 10th International Think Tank: Paris NASH Meeting, Institute Pasteur, September 5-6, 2024, Paris, France. The congress is organized by Virginia Commonwealth, University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America and Hôpital Hautepierre, Hôpitaux Universitaires, Strasbourg, France.
Sanaz Massoumi, MS, PhD, speaks at the AANA 2024 Annual Congress, August 2 – 6, 2024, at the San Diego Convention Center. The featured event is hosted by the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology.
June 2 – 7, 2024
Robin Betts, RN, CPHQ, MBA-HA, speaks at the Academy of Emerging Leaders in Patient Safety, June 2 – 7, 2024, Telluride, Colorado. MedStar Health Institute of Quality and Safety, the event organizer centered the event around the topic “Impact Organizational Safety Culture Through Ethical Leadership.”
May 15 – 17, 2024
Robin Betts, RN, CPHQ, MBA-HA, speaks as a panelist at the Cotiviti Client Conference 2024 (CCC24), on the topic “Addressing Health Equity in quality and engagement programs,” May 15 – 17, 2024, Austin, Texas. Cotiviti, the event organizer, has themed the conference “Navigating New Frontiers,” aiming to spotlight leading strategies to create successful outcomes for members and address challenges in payment integrity, quality improvement, risk adjustment, and member engagement amid the shifting healthcare climate.
April 26-27, 2024
Sanaz Massoumi, MS, PhD speaks at the 7th International Conference on Patient Safety (ICPS), April 26-27, 2024, Islamabad, Pakistan. The event is organized by the Riphah Institute of Healthcare Improvement and Safety with the theme of “Diagnostic Safety.”
April 23, 2024
Vonda Vaden Bates, BA speaks at The National Action Alliance for Patient and Workforce Safety—What, Why and How? April 23, 2024. The webinar was arranged by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as part of their Progress Update webinar series to share an update on the National Action Alliance’s progress and discuss plans for how to operationalize and organize toward a 50% improvement in preventable harm to patients and the workforce.
April 17 – 21, 2024
Philip D. Lumb, MB, BS, MD, MCCM, FCCP, speaks at the Academy of Anesthesiology Annual Meeting, April 17 – 21, 2024, British Columbia, Canada. The Academy of Anesthesiology organized the event and American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) provided continuing medical education credits to attendees. Dr. Lumb serves as a keynote speaker on the topic “Patient Safety,” titled “Primum non Nocere: Safety, Surveillance, Sustainability.”
April 17-18, 2024
Mike Durkin, OBE, MBBS, FRCA, FRCP, DSc; and Joe Kiani, MS, participate at the 6th Global Ministerial Summit, April 17-18, 2024, Santiago, Chile, as representatives of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation with the aim of advancing initiatives to improve patient safety.
April 17, 2024
Najmedin Meshkati, MS, PhD, speaks at the Committee Hearing: FAA’s Independent Expert Review Panel on Boeing Safety Culture, April 17, 2024, Washington, DC.
Dr. Meshkati delivered his oral statement before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate on FAA Organization Designation Authorization (ODA) Expert Panel Report, which was tasked by Congress to examine safety at Boeing and make recommendations in the wake of a series of safety-related incidents.
Sanaz Massoumi, MS, PhD speaks at the 2024 Healthcare Road Show, April 15 – 18, 2024, Ghana, West Africa. The event is organized by the Elijeko Foundation to conduct CPR and Patient Safety training to local health workers. Dr. Massoumi presents on the topic “Cultivating the Culture of Safety.”
March 23, 2024
Sanaz Massoumi, MS, PhD speaks at the BEACH Women in Engineering Conference, March 23, 2024, Long Beach, California. The event is organized by the California State University, Long Beach, College of Engineering and 100+ Women Strong.
March 13, 2024
Sanaz Massoumi, MS, PhD speaks at the 10th Annual International Conference on Patient Safety and Quality, March 13, 2024, Santiago, Chile. The event is organized by UC CHRISTUS at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, celebrating the tenth annual Patient Safety Week: A Journey Towards Excellence in Patient Care with the theme “A strong team for our patients.”
December 05, 2023
Joe Kiani, MS, speaks as a Keynote speaker at the 2023 Leapfrog Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner, “The Next Leaps for Patient Safety,” December 05, 2023, Washington DC.
December 2-4, 2023
Sanaz Massoumi, MS, PhD, speaks at the 4 th International Saudi Patient Safety Center Conference, From Awareness to Action: Empowering Patients and Providers for Safer Care, December 2-4, 2023, at King Khalid Cultural Center – Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia.
November 6-9, 2023
Michael A.E. Ramsay, MD, FRCA, speaks at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance, Putting Patients First In Pharmacovigilance: International Perspective From Global South, November 6 – 9, 2023, at the Sanur Prime Plaza Hotel in Denpasar, Bali.
November 6-8, 2023
Joe Kiani, MS, speaks as a Keynote speaker at the Augmented Ingenuity: AI for Patient Safety Conference, November 6-8, 2023, Salt Lake City, Utah. The event is organized by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Jewish Health Care Foundation.
October 25-27, 2023
Jannicke Mellin-Olsen, MD, DPH speaks at the 8th AAU and ICSU Annual Scientific Conference, October 25-27, 2023, Mbarara, Uganda. The event is organized by the Association of Anesthesiologists of Uganda (AAU) and the Intensive Care Society of Uganda (ICSU).
The conference centers around the theme: Safety Persists: The Role of an Anesthesia Provider in Ensuring Safe Anesthesia and Critical Care Practices. With the subthemes: Safe Pediatric, Obstetric and Regional Anesthesia. Leading the conference is Dr. Mellin-Olsen as keynote speaker, Dr. Mary Juliet Nampawu as Chair, and former PSMF Fellow, Dr. Elizabeth Igaga.
September 21-22, 2023
Joe Kiani, Patient Safety Movement Foundation Founder, speaks at the BETA Annual Member Symposium, September 21-22, 2023.
September 21-23, 2023
Michael A.E. Ramsay, MD, FRCA; Mike Durkin, OBE, MBBS, FRCA, FRCP, DSc; and Joe Kiani, MS, speak at the Mexican Academy of Surgery Academic Conference, September 21-23, 2023, at the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí.
The panel “Transcongressional Course – Safety of the Surgical Patient” is moderated by Javier T. Davila, OMFS.
Dr. Guadalupe Mercedes Lucía Guerrero Avendaño also participates in the panel. Dr. Guerrero represents Hospital General de México “Dr. Eduardo Liceaga,” the Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s newest Committed Hospital.
September 18-21, 2023
Michael A.E. Ramsay, MD, FRCA, and Sanaz Massoumi, MS, PhD, speak at the 3rd International Week of Patient Safety SAFETY4M, September 18-21, 2023.
September 18-19, 2023
Joe Kiani, MS, speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative 2023 Meeting, September 18-19, 2023.
Mr. Kiani addresses opioid overdoses on a panel about health equity. This session highlights ten startups in the health equity and innovation space and includes brief pitch presentations to a panel of judges on their innovative technology and business models.
September 15-17, 2023
Joe Kiani, MS, speaks as a Keynote speaker at the World Patient Safety Day Event, September 15-17, 2023, Berlin, Germany. The event is organized by the German Coalition for Patient Safety (Aktionsbündnis Patientensicherheit, APS) and with the support of the German Federal Ministry of Health.
Mr. Kiani addresses the World Health Organization motto for World Patient Safety Day “Engaging Patients for Patient Safety and “Elevate the voice of patients!” and help reach organizational aims of safety culture in the healthcare system and strengthening health literacy.
September 14, 2023
Michael A.E. Ramsay, MD, FRCA, speaks at a seminar organized by Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Elevating Patient Voices: Celebrating World Patient Safety Day, September 14, 2023.
The virtual event is organized by the Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI) at Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT) to elevate patient and family voices for patient safety
September 12-13, 2023
Sanaz Massoumi, MS, PhD, speaks at the World Health Organization World Patient Safety Day Global Conference, September 12-13, 2023.
Dr. Massoumi’s presentation on Empowering Patient Stories for Safer Healthcare reflects the World Health Organization’s 2023 theme for World Patient Safety Day, “Engaging Patients for Patient Safety.”
August 18 – 22, 2023
Sanaz Massoumi, MS, PhD, speaks at the AANA 2023 Annual Congress, August 18 – 22, 2023, at the San Diego Convention Center. The featured event is hosted by the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology.
July 4, 2023
Michael A.E. Ramsay, MD, FRCA, and Sanaz Massoumi, MS, PhD, speak at the 2nd Conference on the Atlantic Coast of the Collaborative Latin American Forum on Health Quality and Safety, July 4, 2023.
May 3-6, 2023
Michael A.E. Ramsay, MD, FRCA, speaks at the 2023 International Congress of ILTS, ELITA and LICAGE, May 3-6, 2023, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
February 23-24, 2023
Joe Kiani, MS, Patient Safety Movement Foundation Founder, speaks at the 5th Global Ministerial Summit, February 23-24, 2023, Montreux, Switzerland.
