WASHINGTON (PRWEB)
November 11, 2019

The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) today announced that Robert Trowbridge, MD will serve as President-Elect of the organization, becoming president when Dr. David-Newman Toker’s term ends in November 2020. In addition, SIDM announced that Ronald Wyatt, MD, MHA has joined the board of directors.

According to the 2015 NAM report, Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, missed, wrong, or delayed diagnoses are the most common, most catastrophic, and most costly of serious medical errors and affect more than 12 million Americans each year. Conservative estimates find 40,000-80,000 people die each year from diagnostic failures in U.S. hospitals alone, and that such errors affect 1 in 20 outpatient adults annually. Research released this year by SIDM found that one third (34%) of malpractice cases that result in death or permanent disability stem from an inaccurate or delayed diagnosis.

Dr. Trowbridge is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Director of Undergraduate Medical Curriculum at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. He is a clinician-educator with expertise in teaching clinical reasoning and avoidance of diagnostic error. He has won over 20 clinical teaching awards and remains clinically active as a hospitalist. His research has centered on ways of helping to identify diagnostic errors and provide feedback to clinicians in a manner that improves diagnostic reliability with over 30 peer-reviewed publications and 20 book chapters.

“The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine continues to make major strides towards improving diagnostic quality and safety in our healthcare system. I am very proud of all we have accomplished over the last year,” said David Newman-Toker, MD, PhD, President of SIDM and Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he serves as Director of the Armstrong Institute Center for Diagnostic Excellence. “But there is a great deal more work that needs to be done to reduce the harm caused by diagnostic errors. Our mission is to catalyze and lead change to improve diagnosis and eliminate harm from diagnostic error, in partnership with patients, their families, the healthcare community and every interested stakeholder. Bob lives this mission every day in his clinical practice and his work teaching the next generation of clinicians. He is an ideal choice to serve as SIDM’s next President. SIDM will benefit greatly from having someone with his knowledge, skills, and capabilities at the helm in coming years, and I look forward to working side-by-side with him to achieve the mission.”

In addition to Trowbridge’s new role as President-Elect, the SIDM Board announced its newest member, Dr. Ronald Wyatt.

Dr. Wyatt is Chief Quality Officer at Cook County Health, one of the largest public health systems in the United States. He was previously Chief Quality Officer at the Hamad Medical Corporation, as well as Medical Director of the Hamad Health Quality Institute, reporting to the Minister of Health for Qatar. He was the executive sponsor of the IHI/Qatar national patient safety collaborative that established the Qatar national patient safety Initiative. In 2010, Ron served as Director of the Patient Safety Analysis Center in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), now the Defense Health Agency (DHA), where he was responsible for establishing and maintaining patient safety registries that include clinical, root cause analyses and failure mode and effects analyses data on adverse events at over 60 military health facilities, both in the U.S. and abroad. While at the Department of Defense, he co-directed the Partnership for Patients initiative and served as Chair of the Readmissions Workgroup and led the development of the Sentinel Event Watch and the Data Pulse publications.

In 2016, Dr. Wyatt was appointed as the first Patient Safety Officer for the Joint Commission, where he directed the Office of Quality and Patient Safety, established a patient safety fellowship and was a contributor to the Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alerts and the National Patient Safety Goals. While at The Joint Commission, Dr. Wyatt co-chaired the first health equity leadership forum and he has contributed to multiple publications on Health Equity, work place violence prevention, racial bias and implicit bias as patient safety issues.

“Dr. Wyatt’s experience as part of a large health systems both in the U.S. and abroad will help the SIDM Board immensely, particularly as we develop targeted approaches to reducing diagnostic errors in hospitals and health systems,” added Newman-Toker. “Reaching C-Suite leadership, such as that of Dr. Wyatt, is fundamental to any success we could have in improving diagnostic quality and safety for our patients.”

About the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM)

The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine catalyzes and leads change to improve diagnosis and eliminate harm from diagnostic error. We work in partnership with patients, their families, the healthcare community and every interested stakeholder. SIDM is the only organization focused solely on the problem of diagnostic error and improving the accuracy and timeliness of diagnosis. In 2015, SIDM established the Coalition to Improve Diagnosis to increase awareness and actions that improve diagnosis. Members of the Coalition represent hundreds of thousands of healthcare providers and patients—and the leading health organizations and government agencies involved in patient care. Together, we work to find solutions that enhance diagnostic safety and quality, reduce harm, and ultimately, ensure better health outcomes for patients. Visit http://www.ImproveDiagnosis.org to learn more.

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AUSTIN, Texas (PRWEB)
November 09, 2019

QuickStart Learning Inc., a leader in IT skills training launched DevOpsU.org on April 1, 2019 to democratize and help organizations with the DevOps transform journey. The mission behind launching DevOpsU.org is to accelerate, standardize and transform DevOps journey through a Free DevOps Workforce Readiness Platform using AI, adaptive learning and multi-modal training delivery to personalize the learning experience.

To further its mission, DevOpsU.org has secured industry’s top 10 DevOps most influential leaders to join its advisory council

“Most organizations struggle with DevOps deployment in a multi-cloud environment, automating testing through the DevOps Cycle, standardization of DevOps practices, getting legacy and waterfall teams to transition to DevOps, and getting ROI on their DevOps investment. All these challenges are indicative of either the workforce not being ready, or not having the right skill set to meet their goals. DevOpsU.org, with the fusion of an AI based workforce readiness platform, industry’s top DevOps experts and personalize certification training, will create future DevOps leaders.”, says Ed Sattar, CEO.

The DevOps advisory council is comprised of five (5) industry leaders, with diverse backgrounds, ranging from sales, strategy development, training and technical.

We take great pride in welcoming, Jamal Mazhar, Patrick Bishop, Collin Meadows, Carmine “CJ” Napolitano, and Adrian Des Rotours as our advisory council members. They will not only provide us strategic guidance, but also make a big a big difference in the DevOps transformation journey.

DevOpsU.org Advisory Council Member Profiles:

Carmine “CJ” Napolitano has over 25 years of experience as a CFO, COO, GM and CEO of public and private companies. Most recently he served as CEO of Electric Cloud, a DevOps pioneer, which changed the industry landscape when it merged with CloudBees.

Jamal Mazhar is a veteran of the technology industry with over 25 years of industry experience. He has worked for Fortune 500 companies including GE Capital and ING U.S Financial Services. He is also a lead inventor on multiple Cloud Management patents, including a patent in China. He founded Kaavo in 2007; a pioneer in automation of cloud deployment. Jamal is currently working as the VP, Infrastructure & DevOps for Sprinklr.

Collin Meadows is someone who will always advocate, the importance of embracing a data-led approach. He has spent most of his career building software and tools and refining and automating processes. Collin is currently the VP of Engineering and Technology at Terbium Labs.

Adrian des Rotours is an experienced Project Manager and Agile & DevOps Coach. He has over 25 years of professional experience, in various industries. He is currently Global Program Manager at DXC technology and provides training on various topics, including DevOps, Project Management and leadership in business roles. Also, he is MBA professor for “Strategy Planning and Management” at the Catholic University of Cordoba (Argentina).

Patrick Bishop is a tenured leader, having invested 15+ years developing and launching start-ups. Patrick has a passion for sales, and has worked in established tech companies, like IBM, to up and coming start-ups like Memento (acquired by FIS) and Xebia Labs. Patrick is currently serving as VP of Sales and Customer Success for Backtrace I/O.

“We are on a path to be the number one DevOps certification training provider. The fusion of our DevOps workforce readiness platform with the perspectives of our advisory council will serve our customers in ways that will be congruent with the industries latest and greatest DevOps journey trends,” says Ed Sattar, CEO. He further comments how offering free DevOps certification training and DevOps workforce readiness platform will democratize this industry.

About DevOpsU.org

DevOpsU.Org mission is to help organizations with their DevOps journey and standardize the process, accelerate release time and eliminate errors. To achieve this, DevOps has created a workforce readiness platform for organizations which pulls process and tools performance data, asses teams’ competencies against business goals and then recommend a personalized learning paths using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and adaptive learning technologies.

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