David Classen

Dr. Classen is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah and a Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Epidemiology at The University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah and a Senior Advisor at Pascal Metrics, a federally certified Patient Safety Organization (PSO). He also leads the Utah Center for Health AI. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee (IOM) that developed the National Healthcare Quality Report and he was also a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Patient Safety Data Standards. He was also a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Health Information Technology and Patient Safety. He chaired the QUIC (Federal Safety Taskforce)/IHI Collaborative on Improving Safety in High Hazard Areas. Dr. Classen was Co Chair of the Institute of Healthcare Improvements Collaborative on Perioperative Safety and the Surgical Safety Collaborative at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI). He was also a faculty member of the IHI/National Health Foundation Safer Patients Initiative in the United Kingdom. In addition, Dr. Classen is one of the developers of the “Trigger Tool Methodology” at IHI, used for the improved detection of adverse events which is currently being used by more than 1000 different healthcare organizations through out the United States and Europe.