Frank A. Federico, RPh,

Senior Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

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Frank A. Federico, RPh, Senior Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), works in the areas of patient safety, applying reliability principles in health care, preventing surgical complications, and improving perinatal care. He is faculty for the IHI Patient Safety Executive Development Program and 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 authored numerous patient safety articles, co-authored a chapter in Achieving Safe and Reliable Healthcare: Strategies and Solutions, and was an executive producer of the film First, Do No Harm, Part 2: Taking the Lead.