Course Directors
Dana Marie Grzybicki, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
grzybickidm@upmc.edu
Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD
President
Jewish Healthcare Foundation of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
feinstein@jhf.org
Faculty
John D. Banja, PhD
Associate Professor and Clinical Ethicist
Center For Ethics
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia
jbanja@emory.edu
Michael J. Becich, MD, PhD
Vice-Chairman of Pathology Informatics
Director, Center for Pathology Informatics
Director, Oncology Informatics Center
Professor of Pathology and Information Science and Telecommunications
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
becich@pitt.edu
Stacey Champagne, MA
Senior Research Associate
Center for Patient Safety Research
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
schampagne@jcaho.org
Mark Graber, MD
Chief of Medicine
Department of Veterans Hospital
Northpoint, NY
Professor and Vice Chair
Medicine
SUNY Stony Brook, NY
mark.graber@med.va.gov
David Novis, MD
Healthcare Management Consultant
Wentworth Douglass Hospital
Dover, NH
DNovis@DavidNovis.com
Tamra E. Merryman, RN, MSN, PACHE
UPMC Health System Vice President, Center for Quality Improvement and Innovation
Administration
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Shadyside
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
merrymante@upmc.edu
Stephen S. Raab, MD
Professor
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Chief and Director of Cytology
UPMC Shadyside
Director, Center for Pathology Quality and Healthcare Research
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
raabss@upmc.edu
Mark S. Roberts, MD MPP
Associate Professor of Medicine, Health Policy and Management and Industrial Engineering
Chief, Section of Decision Sciences and Clinical Systems Modeling
Department of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
200 Meyran Avenue, 2nd Floor
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
robertsm@upmc.edu
Loren H. Roth, MD, MPH
Sr. Vice President, Quality Care & Chief Medical Officer
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
rothlh@upmc.edu
David Sharbaugh, CPA
Director, Quality Improvement & Information Analysis
Administration
UPMC Shadyside
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
sharbaughdt@upmc.edu
Susan E. Sheridan, MIM, MBA
Co-founder, President
Consumers for Advancing Patient Safety(CAPS)
ssheridan@patientsafety.org
Elizabeth Wagar, MD
Professor
Department of Pathology
University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine
Los Angeles, California
EWagar@mednet.ucla.edu
Mark R. Wick, MD
Editor-in Chief
American Journal of Clinical Pathology
Professor of Pathology, Associate Director of Surgical Pathology, and Director of Pathology Residency Training
University of Virginia at Charlottesville
mrw9c@virginia.edu
