Carole Hemmelgarn, MS, MS, is the Program Director for the Executive Master’s program in Clinical Quality, Safety & Leadership at Georgetown University, and the Senior Director of Education at the MedStar Institute for Quality & Safety.

Carole received a master’s degree in Patient Safety Leadership from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a second master’s degree in Health Care Ethics from Creighton University.

She sits on the Board of Directors for Leapfrog and the Board of Directors of Children’s Hospital Solutions for Patient Safety. She is a founding member of Patients for Patient Safety US.