Lucian L. Leape MD

Lucian Leape, MD, is a former Adjunct Professor of Health Policy, Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Leape is an outspoken advocate of the non-punitive systems approach to the prevention of medical errors. He has talked and written widely about the need to make patient safety a national priority in the United States. Dr. Leape was one of the founders of the National Patient Safety Foundation, the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Error, and the Harvard Kennedy School Executive Session on Medical Error. IHI's Lucian Leape Institute is named for Dr. Leape​, who served as the founding chairman and remains an active member. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Care in America Committee that published the reports, To Err Is Human​ and Crossing the Quality Chasm.