Donald M. Berwick (born in 1946 in New York City, and raised in Moodus, Connecticut) is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)[1], an independent not-for-profit organization helping to lead the improvement of health care throughout the world.
Dr. Berwick is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Health Care Policy in the Department of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is currently ranked first among American research medical schools by U.S. News and World Report and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health The Harvard School of Public Health is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill, next to Harvard Medical School and Cambridge, Massachusetts, HSPH is considered one of the most prestigious schools focusing on health in the United States. It is[2]. He is also a pediatrician, Adjunct Staff in the Department of Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston Children's Hospital Boston is a children's hospital located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston, Massachusetts, and a Consultant in Pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and a biomedical research facility in Boston, Massachusetts. It is ranked as one of the top five hospitals in the USA.
Contents |
Biography
Berwick graduated with a B.A. Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both. Bachelor of Arts degree programs generally last three to four years depending upon the country, academic institution, and specific majors or minors from Harvard College Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees. Founded in 1636, it is also Harvard's oldest school. Instruction of its students is the responsibility of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and received a M.P.P. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and an M.D. It is a professional doctorate / first professional degree in some countries, including the United States and Canada, although training is entered after obtaining from 90 to 120 credit hours of university level work (see second entry degree) and in most cases after having obtained a Bachelors Degree. In other countries, such as United Kingdom and from the Harvard Medical School. He completed his medical residency in pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston Children's Hospital Boston is a children's hospital located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston, Massachusetts.
Berwick began his career as a pediatrician at Harvard Community Health Plan; in 1983 he became the plan's first Vice President of Quality-of-Care Measurement[3]. In that position, Berwick investigated quality control measures in other industries such as aeronautics and manufacturing and considered their application in health care settings. From 1987-1991, Berwick was co-founder and Co-Principal Investigator for the National Demonstration Project on Quality Improvement in Health Care, designed to explore opportunities for quality improvement in health care. Based on this work, Berwick left Harvard Community Health Plan in 1989 and co-founded the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, IHI works to accelerate improvement by building the will for change, cultivating promising concepts for improving patient care, and helping health care systems put those ideas into action. Employing a staff of approximately 100 people and maintaining partnerships with hundreds of faculty members, IHI offers comprehensive programs that aim to improve the lives of patients, the health of communities, and the joy of the health care workforce. IHI’s work is funded primarily through fee-based programs and services, and also through the generous support of a distinguished group of foundations, companies, and individuals. These sources enable IHI to provide community benefits such as program scholarships, research and development, work in professional education, and initiatives in developing countries.
Dr. Berwick has published over 130 scientific articles in numerous professional journals on subjects relating to health care policy, decision analysis, technology assessment, and health care quality management. He is the co-author of several books, notably Cholesterol, Children, and Heart Disease: an Analysis of Alternatives (1980), Curing Health Care (1990), and New Rules: Regulation, Markets and the Quality of American Health Care (1996).
Berwick's vision for health care is an adaptation from the Institute of Medicine The Institute of Medicine is a not-for-profit, non-governmental American organization founded in 1970, under the congressional charter of the United States National Academy of Sciences. The IOM is part of the United States National Academies, which also includes:'s six improvement aims for the health care system – care that is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable. IHI calls this the “No Needless List”:
- No Needless Deaths
- No Needless Pain or Suffering
- No Helplessness in Those Served or Serving
- No Unwanted Waiting
- No Waste
- No One Left Out
Awards and honors
- Ernest A. Codman Award, 1999
- Alfred I. DuPont Award for excellence in children’s healthcare, 2001
- American Hospital Association, "Award of Honor", 2002
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London, 2004
- Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions. In decreasing order of seniority, these are:, 2005
- Purpose Prize for "enlisting wide-scale cooperation and scientifically-proven protocols to help hospitals improve care and save more than 100,000 lives," 2007[4]
- The 13th Annual Heinz Award for Public Policy, 2007[5]
Quotations
- "Some is not a number. Soon is not a time."
- "When I climb Mount Rainier, I face less risk of death than I’ll face on the operating table."
- "We are guests in our patients' lives."
- "What can you do by next Tuesday?"
Selected publications
- Berwick DM, Cretin S, Keeler EB. Cholesterol, children, and heart disease: an analysis of alternatives. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. ISBN 0195026691.
- Read JL, Quinn RJ, Berwick DM, Fineberg HV, Weinstein MC. Preferences for health outcomes. Comparison of assessment methods. Med Decis Making. 1984;4(3):315-29. PMID 6335216.
- Berwick DM, Weinstein MC. What do patients value? Willingness to pay for ultrasound in normal pregnancy. Med Care. 1985 Jul;23(7):881-93. PMID 3925259.
- Murphy JM, Berwick DM, Weinstein MC, Borus JF, Budman SH, Klerman GL. Performance of screening and diagnostic tests. Application of receiver operating characteristic analysis. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1987 Jun;44(6):550-5. PMID 3579501.
- Berwick DM. Continuous improvement as an ideal in health care. N Engl J Med. 1989 Jan 5;320(1):53-6. PMID 2909878.
- Perrin JM, Homer CJ, Berwick DM, Woolf AD, Freeman JL, Wennberg JE. Variations in rates of hospitalization of children in three urban communities. N Engl J Med. 1989 May 4;320(18):1183-7. PMID 2710191.
- Berwick DM, Godfrey AB, Roessner J. Curing health care: new strategies for quality improvement. A report on the National Demonstration Project on Quality Improvement in Health Care. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990. ISBN 1555422942.
- Berwick DM, Murphy JM, Goldman PA, Ware JE Jr, Barsky AJ, Weinstein MC. Performance of a five-item mental health screening test. Med Care. 1991 Feb;29(2):169-76. PMID 1881269.
- Berwick DM. A primer on leading the improvement of systems. BMJ. 1996 Mar 9;312(7031):619-22. PMID 8595340.
- Berwick DM. Quality of health care. Part 5: Payment by capitation and the quality of care. N Engl J Med. 1996 Oct 17;335(16):1227-31. PMID 8815948.
- Brennan TA, Berwick DM. New rules: regulation, markets, and the quality of American health care. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996. ISBN 0787901490.
- Berwick DM. Developing and testing changes in delivery of care. Ann Intern Med. 1998 Apr 15;128(8):651-6. PMID 9537939.
- Leape LL, Berwick DM. Safe health care: are we up to it? BMJ. 2000 Mar 18;320(7237):725-6. PMID 10720335.
- Berwick DM. A user's manual for the IOM's 'Quality Chasm' report. Health Aff (Millwood). 2002 May-Jun;21(3):80-90. PMID 12026006.
- Leape LL, Berwick DM, Bates DW. What practices will most improve safety? Evidence-based medicine meets patient safety. JAMA. 2002 Jul 24-31;288(4):501-7. PMID 12132984.
- Berwick DM. Disseminating innovations in health care. JAMA. 2003 Apr 16;289(15):1969-75. PMID 12697800.
- Berwick DM. Escape fire. Designs for the future of health care. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. ISBN 9780787972172.
- Leape LL, Berwick DM. Five years after To Err Is Human: what have we learned? JAMA. 2005 May 18;293(19):2384-90. PMID 15900009.
- Berwick DM, Calkins DR, McCannon CJ, Hackbarth AD. The 100,000 lives campaign: setting a goal and a deadline for improving health care quality. JAMA. 2006 Jan 18;295(3):324-7. PMID 16418469.
- Berwick DM. The science of improvement. JAMA. 2008 Mar 12;299(10):1182-4. PMID 18334694.
References
- ^ Galewitz P. Local hospitals and doctors join forces to improve health care, restrain costs. Kaiser Health News. 2009 Jul 22. Accessed 2009 Jul 25.
- ^ Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio. 2006 Jul 28. Accessed 2009 Jul 25.
- ^ Feder BJ. Thomas Pyle, 67, innovator in 1980s health care plans. New York Times. 2007 Jul 21. Accessed 2009 Jul 25.
- ^ Civic Ventures. Five social innovators over age 60 receive $100,000 Purpose Prize (news release). 2007 Sep 4. Accessed 2009 Jul 25.
- ^ The Heinz Awards, Donald Berwick profile
- Gawande, Atul, "Better", 2008, ISBN 0312427654
- Ayres, Ian, "Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart", 2007, ISBN 0553805401
External links
Categories: 1947 births | People in public health | Health sciences Categories: Healthcare | Health | Applied sciences | Harvard Medical School faculty | Harvard University alumni Categories: Alumni by university or college in Massachusetts | Harvard University people | Ivy League alumni | Medical informatics Categories: Medicine | Health care informatics | Medical research | Medical law | Evidence-based medicine | Healthcare quality Categories: Healthcare | Healthcare management | Quality | Quality management Categories: Anticipatory thinking | Quality | Production and manufacturing | Evaluation methods | Living people Possibly living people, disappeared people and dead people are not included here, including the recently deceased, for which see Category:2010 deaths and preceding categories listing deaths for 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, etc
Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:21:53 GMT+00:00
to run Medicare and ... New York Daily News Under the recess appointment, Berwick will avoid the Senate nomination process and he will serve until the end of the year, when the congressional term ...
