Gerard M. Castro MPH, PhD

Gerard M. Castro, PhD, MPH is the Project Director for Patient Safety Initiatives in the Office of Patient Safety at The Joint Commission. In this role, he has primary responsibility for the Joint Commission sentinel event database, and manages the coordination, reporting and tracking of sentinel events, complaints, and other patient-safety initiatives in the Division of Healthcare Improvement. Dr. Castro was the Principal Investigator for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT project “Investigations of Health IT-related Deaths, Serious Injuries or Unsafe Conditions.” He administers the Patient Safety Advisory Group (PSAG) which advises The Joint Commission on high priority and emerging patient safety issues. He is also a member of the NQF Common Formats and HIT Patient Safety and Expert Panels as well as the HTSI Coalition of Organizations for Reporting Adverse Events (CORE) Committee.