Susan Gullo RN, MS

Dr. Susan Gullo brings thirty-seven years of health care and improvement experience to her role as the Director of Implementation at Ariadne Labs. In this role, she leads the implementation and dissemination of Ariadne’s solutions and tools around the world in close partnership with the program teams who developed the solutions.

For the past twelve years, she has lead and directed organizations across multiple improvement workstreams, including women’s and children’s health. Working at the country level with Senior Leaders in NGO’s and Hospital Systems, Ms. Gullo has been the Sr. Director in the field to execute projects, provide translational leadership, and coach and support frontline teams and consumers of healthcare. Her quality improvement career started in 1995 as a member of the IHI Breakthrough Series on Improving Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes by Reducing Cesarean Sections, and she has led many initiatives on improving birth outcomes both nationally and internationally.

Ms. Gullo co-designed and led the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) Perinatal Community since its inception in 2004, and was the co-lead for IHI’s Maternal and Child Health priority group. She was elected to the 2014 AWHONN Board of Directors and is currently a member of multiple national Maternal-Child Health Advisory Committees. Previously, Ms. Gullo was the Director of Women’s Services at Elliot Hospital in Manchester, NH. She feels fortunate to have been at the beginning of the patient safety movement and continues this focus as a component of her work at Ariadne Labs.