• Abstracts
   
• Biosketches
   
• Partners
   
• Photos
   
• Presentations
   
• Program
   
• White Paper
   
• Workgroup
  Questions
   

• Welcoming Remarks
  • D. Joe Boone, PhD
    CDC/ATSDR
     
  • Suzanne Smith, MD, MPH, MPA
    CDC/ATSDR
     
  • Robert Martin, Dr.PH, MPH
    CDC/ATSDR
     
• Keynote Address
  Lucian L. Leape, MD
  Harvard School of Public Health
   
• Introduction to Perspectives
  Lee Hilborne, MD, MPH
  UCLA Center for Patient Safety & Quality
   
• The Government's Role
  Linda McKibben, MD, MPH
  CDC/ATSDR
   
• The Patient and Family Experience
  Nancy Green, MD
  March of Dimes
   
• Units of Care Delivery: A Clinical Perspective
  Matt Weinger, MD
  University of California, San Diego
   
• Organizations That Support and House Care Delivery
  Nancy Foster
  American Hospital Association
    
• Legal Aspects
  Mark Hiepler, JD
  Hiepler and Hiepler
   
• Keynote Address
  Brent James, MD
  Intermountain Health Care, Institute of Health Care Delivery Research
   
• Introduction to Experiences with Protecting Patient Safety
  Ana Stankovic, MD, PhD
  CDC/ATSDR
   
• Laboratory Safety and Quality in Primary Care: Evidence and Evolution
  Robert L. Phillips, Jr. MD, MSPH
  American Academy of Family Physicians
   
• Six Sigma Approach to Laboratory Quality: The Quest Diagnostics Incorporated Experience
  Kenneth Freeman, MBA
  Quest Diagnostics Incorporated
   
• CAP Q-Probes and Q-Tracks: 15 years of Laboratory Indicator Development
  Richard J. Zarbo, MD, DMD
  College of American Pathologists
   
• Reducing Medical Errors by Providing Expert Advice in the Selection and Interpretation of Laboratory Tests
  Michael Laposata, MD, PhD
  Massachusetts General Hospital
   

• Workgroup Summaries
  Moderators
  Marc Silverstein, MD and Mike Noble, MD

  • National Report
  • Quality Indicators
  • Need for a Quality Institute
     
• Highlights and Next Steps
  Moderator
  Robert Martin, DrPH, MPH

Additional Materials
 (provided by members of the reactor panels):

• Peter Howanitz, MD
  SUNY, Health Science Center
   
• Mario Plebani, MD
  Servizio di Medicina di Laboratorio, Italy