Presenter

Chris LeMaster, MD MPH CPPS has been a practicing emergency physician at Kaiser Permanente East Bay (Oakland and Richmond, California) for the last 13 years. He trained at the Harvard Emergency Medicine Residency Program, completed a patient safety fellowship/MPH in epidemiology at UCLA, and is board-certified clinical informaticist. He is the Patient Safety Lead for Kaiser Permanente, Northern California. He is also founder and CEO of the Patient Safety Community, a not-for-profit, ALL-stakeholder community driven to transform healthcare through design thinking and community. This group includes clinicians, human factors (and other) engineers, academics, healthcare administrators, patients, lawyers, health finance leaders, safety advocates, policy makers, etc. His work centers systems and design thinking and covers a broad range of topics including diagnostic excellence, surgical specimen safety, sterile processing, CLABSIs (central line-associated blood stream infections), clinical informatics, systems safety engineering, and human factors engineering. He lectures frequently on these topics within Kaiser Permanente (e.g., grand rounds, advanced safety training program, patient safety fellowship, and the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine) and externally, including MIT, UC Berkeley, the American Hospital Association, the PreAccident Investigation Podcast, the Up Next for Patient Safety Podcast, and you can find him on Substack.