Patient Safety and Health Services Research (PSR) Fellowship

Our Leadership

  • Jason Stuart Adelman, MD, MS

    • Program Director, Patient Safety Research Fellowship
    • Associate Professor of Medicine (in Biomedical Informatics)
    • Vice Chair for Quality & Patient Safety, Department of Medicine
    • Executive Director, Center for Patient Safety Science
    • Associate Chief Quality Officer
    Jason Adelman, MD, MS

  • R. Graham Barr, MD, DrPH

    • Co-director, Patient Safety Research Fellowship
    • Hamilton Southworth Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
    • Chief, Division of General Medicine
    R. Graham Barr, MD, DrPH

  • Benjamin L. Ranard, MD, MSHP

    • Associate Program Director, Patient Safety Research Fellowship
    • Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUIMC
    • Deputy Director, Center for Patient Safety Science
    Benjamin L. Ranard, MD, MSHP

  • Pooja Reddy Spector, MD, MS

    • Associate Program Director, Patient Safety Research Fellowship
    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in Surgery, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
    • Attending Pediatric Transplant Hepatologist, Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation

  • Anne Grauer, MD, MS

    • Associate Program Director, Patient Safety Research Fellowship
    • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of General Medicine
    • Associate Director of Quality and Patient Safety, CUIMC Department of Medicine
    • Assistant Director of Patient Safety Research, Center for Patient Safety Science
    Anne Grauer

  • I-Fong Lehman, DrPH, MS

    • Administrative Director, Patient Safety Research Fellowship
    • Director of Research Operations, Center for Patient Safety Science
    I-Fong Lehman, DrPH, MS

  • Maureen Kelly, MD

    • Clinical Director, Patient Safety Research Fellowship
    • Director, Quality and Patient Safety
    • CUIMC Department of Medicine
    Maureen Kelly, MD

  • Baruch S. Fertel, MD, MPA

    • Director of Patient Safety Immersion, Patient Safety Research Fellowship
    • Director of Patient Safety Immersion, Center for Patient Safety Science
    • Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    • Vice President, Quality & Patient Safety, NewYork-Presbyterian
    Baruch S. Fertel

  • William Turner, MD

    • Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
    • Patient Safety Research Fellowship
    • Associate Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    • Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, Vice Chief for Diversity and Inclusion

Fellowship Advisory Committee

Internal Advisors

Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE
Chief Executive Officer
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor in the Faculty of the University
Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and
Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences for Columbia University

Peter M. Fleischut, MD
Senior Vice President and Chief Information and Transformation Officer, NewYork-Presbyterian

Baruch S. Fertel, MD, MPA
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Vice President, Quality & Patient Safety, NewYork-Presbyterian

Lorraine Frazier PhD, RN
Professor of Nursing and Dean, Columbia University School of Nursing

Deepa Kumaraiah, MD, MBA
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, NewYork-Presbyterian

Rafael Lantigua, MD
Professor of Medicine
Co-Director, Community Engagement
Resource Core Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research

Muredach Reilly, MBBCh, MSCE 
Herbert and Florence Irving Professor of Medicine
Vice Dean, Clinical and Translational Research, VP&S
Director, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research

External Advisors

David Bates, MD, MSc
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine
Executive Director, Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Carolyn Clancy, MD
Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Discovery, Education and Affiliate Networks, Veterans Health Administration

Patricia Dykes PhD, RN
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Program Director, Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Helen Haskell, MA
President and Founder, Mothers Against Medical Error
President, Consumers Advancing Patient Safety

Aaron Horne Jr, MD, MBA, MHS
Attending Cardiologist, Summit Health
Co-Chair, Structural Heart Task Force
Association of Black Cardiologists

Robert Wachter, MD
Chair, Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Albert Wu, MD, MPH
Professor of Health Policy and Management
Director, Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health