Carol R. Haraden

Vice President
Institute for Healthcare Improvement

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Carol R. Haraden, PhD, Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is a member of the IHI team responsible for developing innovative designs in patient care. She leads IHI's work with Health Improvement Scotland to transform the safety of every Scottish hospital over a five-year period. She also leads work in Denmark, the South of England, and the US to improve the safety of health care systems in these countries. Dr. Haraden is the Executive Lead for the IHI Patient Safety Executive Development Program. She has been a dean in higher education, as well as a clinician, consultant, and researcher, and she served on the Institute of Medicine Committee on Engineering Approaches to Improve Health Care. Dr. Haraden is a judge for several national quality awards and an associate editor for the journal BMJ Quality and Safety.