Carol R. Haraden PhD

Carol Haraden, PhD, Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), is a member of the IHI team responsible for developing innovative designs in patient care. She currently leads the Safer Patients Initiative, a four-year project to improve patient safety in the UK, and the IHI work with Quality Improvement Scotland, the Scottish Patient Safety Alliance, aimed at transforming the safety of every Scottish hospital over five years.
She is the executive lead for the IHI Patient Safety Officer Executive Development Program. Dr. Haraden has been a dean in higher education, a clinician, consultant, and researcher. She served on the Institute of Medicine Committee on Engineering Approaches to Improve Health Care, is a judge for several national quality awards, and is an associate editor for the journal Quality and Safety in Health Care.