Deming Lecture
Donald M. Berwick,
Berwick has received numerous awards
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
and honors for his work, including the 1999
Ernest A. Codman Award, and, in 2001, the
“Inference and Improvement in
first Alfred I. DuPont Award for excellence in
Health Care”
children’s health care. In 2002, he was given
Tuesday, August 5, 4:00 p.m. the “award of honor” from the American
Hospital Association for outstanding leader-
ship in improving health care quality, and,
in 2004, he was inducted as a fellow of the
Improvement in Health Care. He is a past
Royal College of Physicians in London. In
president of the International Society for
2005, in recognition of his exemplary work
Berwick Medical Decision-Making and an elected
for the National Health Service in the United
member of the Institute of Medicine of the
Kingdom, he was appointed honorary Knight
D
onald M. Berwick is president and
National Academy of Sciences, serving on
Commander of the Most Excellent Order of
CEO of the Institute for Healthcare
the governing council from 2002–2007 and
the British Empire—the highest award given
Improvement. He is also a clinical
as a member of the Global Health Board
to non-British citizens. In 2006, he received
professor of pediatrics and health care policy
since 2005.
from the National Quality Forum and Joint
in the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard
Berwick was appointed by President Bill
Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare
Medical School and professor of health pol-
Clinton to serve on the Advisory Commission
Organizations the John M. Eisenberg Patient
icy and management in the Harvard School
on Consumer Protection and Quality in
Safety and Quality Award for Individual
of Public Health. He is a pediatrician,
the Healthcare Industry in 1997 and 1998.
Achievement for making significant and last-
adjunct staff in the Department of Medicine
Cochaired by the secretaries of Health and
ing contributions to improving patient safety
at Boston’s Children’s Hospital, and a con-
Human Services and Labor, the commis-
and health care quality.
sultant in pediatrics at Massachusetts
sion was charged with developing a broader
A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard
General Hospital.
understanding of the issues facing rapidly
College, Berwick holds a master’s degree in
Berwick has published more than 130
evolving health care delivery systems and to
public policy from the John F. Kennedy
scientific articles on subjects relating to
help build consensus on ways to ensure and
School of Government and an MD cum
health care policy, decision analysis, tech-
improve the quality of health care.
laude from the Harvard Medical School.
nology assessment, and health care qual-
ity management in journals such as The
Journal of the American Medical Association,
ASA Presidential Address
The New England Journal of Medicine, and
The British Medical Journal. Books he has
Peter A. Lachenbruch,
coauthored include Curing Health Care:
Oregon State University
New Strategies for Quality Improvement; New
“Communicating Statistics and
Rules: Regulation, Markets, and the Quality
of American Health Care; and Escape Fire:
Developing Professionals”
Designs for the Future of Health Care.
Tuesday, August 5, 8:00 p.m.
Berwick was chair of the Health
Services Research Review Study Section
of the Agency for Health Care Policy and
Research from 1995–1999 and chair of the
Lachenbruch’s statistical interests are
National Advisory Council of the Agency
in discriminant analysis, two-part models,
for Healthcare Research and Quality from
model-independent inference, statistical
1999–2001. He was vice chair of the U.S.
Lachenbruch
computing, and data analysis; his appli-
Preventive Services Task Force from 1990–
cation interests are in rheumatology, psy-
1996 and the first “independent member”
of the Board of Trustees of the American
P
eter Lachenbruch is professor of public
health at Oregon State University. He
chiatry, pediatrics, gerontology, and acci-
has held positions on the faculties of
dent epidemiology. Lachenbruch has more
Hospital Association from 1996–1999. He
The University of North Carolina (1965–
than 180 publications in these fields and
also served from 1989–1991 as a member
1976), the University of Iowa (1976–1985),
serves on the editorial boards of Statistics
of the panel of judges for the Malcolm
and UCLA (1985–1994). He also was
in Medicine, Methods of Information in
Baldrige National Quality Award pro-
employed by the FDA/CBER from 1994–
Medicine, Journal of Biopharmaceutical
gram. He is a member of several edito-
2005, before retiring as the director of the
Statistics, and Statistical Methods in Medical
rial boards, including that of the Journal Division of Biostatistics. Lachenbruch is
Research. He has served on advisory pan-
of the American Medical Association. From a Fellow of the American Statistical
els to the George Mason University
1987–1991, Berwick was cofounder and Association and was recently elected president
Department of Statistics, The Ohio State
coprincipal investigator for the National for 2008. He earned his PhD from UCLA
University Department of Statistics,
Demonstration Project on Quality in biostatistics.
Statistical Solutions, and Cytel.
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