Mary Dixon-woods BA, DipStat, MSc, DPhil

Professor Mary Dixon-Woods is RAND Professor of Health Services Research at the University of Cambridge and Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research. A fellow of both the Academy of Social Sciences and the Academy of Medical Sciences, she leads a programme of research focused on patient safety and healthcare improvement, healthcare ethics, and methodological innovation in studying healthcare. She is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Quality and Safety. She holds honorary positions as an adjunct professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, a visiting professor at Imperial College’s Centre for Infection Prevention and Management, and a visiting adjunct professor at Dartmouth College. She was, in 2012, one of the first recipients of a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award. She served on the National Advisory Group on the Safety of Patients in England, which produced the Berwick report in 2013. She was recently a member of the Patient Safety Forum at the World Innovation Summit for Health and served as an expert panel member the US National Patient Safety Foundation’s review of patient safety. She is currently serving on the review of information technology in the NHS led by Professor Bob Wachter.