Frank Federico

Vice President
Institute for Healthcare Improvement

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Frank A. Federico, RPh, Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, works in improving patient safety, applying reliability principles in health care, preventing surgical complications, and improving perinatal care. He serves as faculty for the IHI Patient Safety Executive Development Program and has co-chaired a number of Patient Safety Collaboratives. Prior to joining IHI, Mr. Federico was Program Director of the Office Practice Evaluation Program and a loss prevention and patient safety specialist at the Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard-Affiliated Institutions. He has published numerous patient safety articles and co-authored a chapter in Achieving Safe and Reliable Healthcare: Strategies and Solutions, and he was an executive producer of the film First, Do No Harm, Part 2: Taking the Lead.