Meet Our Team

Leadership

  • Jason Adelman, MD, MS

    • Associate Dean for Quality and Patient Safety
    • Director, Center for Patient Safety Science
    • Program Director, Patient Safety Research Fellowship
    • Vice Chair for Quality & Patient Safety, Department of Medicine
    • System Associate Chief Quality Officer for Patient Safety & Learning Health System Science, NewYork-Presbyterian
    • Associate Professor of Medicine (in Biomedical Informatics) at CUMC
    Jason Adelman, MD, MS
  • Benjamin L. Ranard, MD, MSHP

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

    • Director of Medication Safety, Center for Patient Safety Science
    • Associate Program Director, Patient Safety Research Fellowship
    • Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUIMC
    • Associate Director of Quality and Patient Safety, CUIMC Department of Medicine
    Anne Grauer
  • I-Fong Lehman, DrPH, MS

    • Director of Research Operations, Center for Patient Safety Science
    • Administrative Director, Patient Safety Research Fellowship

    Dr. Lehman is the Director of the Center for Patient Safety Science where she is responsible for overall operations including grant and contract activities. Previously, she was the Director of Quality and Patient Safety at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University overseeing Columbia Milstein, The Allen Hospital and Lawrence Hospital. Prior to joining NYPH, she was the Director of Clinical Communities at The Johns Hopkins’ Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. She earned her DrPH in Health Policy and Management from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and her MS in Health Policy and Administration from the Harvard School of Public Health.

    I-Fong Lehman, DrPH, MS
  • Maureen Kelly, MD

    • Director, Quality and Patient Safety, CUIMC Department of Medicine
    • Clinical Director, Patient Safety Research Fellowship
    Maureen Kelly, MD
  • Baruch S. Fertel, MD, MPA

    • Director of Patient Safety Immersion, Center for Patient Safety Science
    • Director of Patient Safety Immersion, Patient Safety Research Fellowship
    • Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at CUMC
    • Vice President, Quality & Patient Safety, NewYork-Presbyterian
    Baruch S. Fertel
  • William Turner, MD

    • Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Center for Patient Safety Science
    • Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Patient Safety Research Fellowship
    • Associate Professor of Medicine at CUMC
    • Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Donald E. Dietz, MD, MS

    • Weill Cornell Medicine Lead

Junior Faculty (ECRIP, 2022-2024)

  • Danielle Carter, MD, MS

    • Assistant Professor of Medicine
  • Jerard Z. Kneifati-Hayek, MD, MS

    • Assistant Professor of Medicine
    • Assistant Director of Quality and Patient Safety, Department of Medicine
  • Pooja Reddy, MD, MS

    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in Surgery, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
    • Attending Pediatric Transplant Hepatologist, Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation
    Pooja Reddy, MD, MS

Patient Safety Research Fellows (AHRQ T32)

  • Nicole Krenitsky, MD, MBA

    Dr. Krenitsky is a Fellow in Patient Safety Research and Clinical Fellow in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She earned her MD/MBA at Yale Schools of Medicine and Management and went on to complete her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia. Dr. Krenitsky is a current member of the Columbia Housestaff Quality Council and is interested in leveraging informatics and deep learning to improve safety and quality outcomes for obstetric patients.

Staff

  • Yelstin Fernandes, BS

    • Programmer

    Yelstin joined the original Center for Patient Safety Research in 2018 as a Programmer.  He is responsible for organizing, analyzing, and leveraging healthcare data in order to develop programmatic tools that support the team's ongoing research and operational duties.  Yelstin comes from a background in biology research holding a B.S. in Microbiology from the University of Rochester.  Additionally, he was exposed to patient care and safety as an EMT-B, and began to code as a hobby.  He is excited to now be using data analytics to reduce medical errors.  In his spare time Yelstin enjoys baseball, cooking, and travel.

    Yelstin Fernandes, BS
  • Neha Thummala, MPH

    • Program Coordinator

    Neha joined the original Center for Patient Safety Research in 2021 as a Program Coordinator. She is responsible for supporting various research-related activities, including project coordination of research studies and submissions to the IRB. Neha graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BA in Public Health Studies and received her MPH in Epidemiology from Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in 2021.

    Neha Thummala, MPH
  • Ing Haviland, BA

    • Scientific Grant & Communications Writer

    Ing recently joined the original Center for Patient Safety Research with over 20 years’ experience as a medical communications editor, writer, and information design specialist. She has helped develop numerous presentations, manuscripts, abstracts, posters, multimedia projects, and other materials on a wide range of topics for professional, institutional, patient, and donor audiences. Ing has a passion for working with teams on multi-stage iterations to elucidate complex issues, process structures, and potential advancements that engage key audiences.

    Ing Haviland, BA

Collaborators

Program Advisors

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

  • Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE
  • James M. McKiernan, MD
  • R. Graham Barr, MD, DrPH
  • Dena Goffman, MD, MS
  • George Hripcsak, MD, MS
  • Donald Landry, MD, PhD
  • Steven Shea, MD, MS
  • Melissa Stockwell, MD, MPH

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

  • Peter M. Fleischut, MD
  • Deepa Kumaraiah, MD, MBA
  • Baruch S. Fertel, MD, MPA

Weill Cornell Medicine

  • Yiye Zhang, PhD, MS

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

  • William Southern, MD, MS

Brigham and Women's Hospital

  • David W. Bates, MD, MS
  • Patricia C. Dykes, PhD, MA, RN

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  • Hojjat Salmasian, MD, PhD

Johns Hopkins University

  • Allen Chen, MD
  • Albert Wu, MD, MPH

Mothers Against Medical Error

  • Helen Haskell, MA