Chris LeMaster

I’ve been a practicing emergency physician for Kaiser Permanente for the last 11 years, where I am currently the Northern California TPMG Physician Patient Safety Lead. I trained at the Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program, then did a patient safety research fellowship and obtained an MPH in epidemiology at UCLA. I am boarded in clinical informatics and emergency medicine.

I created and lead the Easy Bay (Oakland and Richmond) Emergency Department Patient Safety Committee and I am the Patient Safety Lead for our medical center. This work has given me a deep look into systems design and how events harm providers and patients and their families. My work has also included:

• research on central-line associated bloodstream infections, diagnostic error, embedding clinical decision-support into our electronic healthcare record
  
• Health IT, UX/usability, and human-centered design
  
• Participation in the international Restorative Practice in Healthcare group
  
• The use of systems approaches to safety including system safety engineering (STPA, CAST), human-factors engineering (SEIPS)
  
• The creation of the Patient Safety Community, an informal monthly gathering of an international group of patient safety experts and advocates that include Martie Hatlie, Karen Feinstein, Nancy Leveson, David Woods, and many others.
  
• Embedding restorative practices into risk/safety work
  
• Embedding equity work into the patient safety space
  
• Safety Education: including podcasts, lectures on patient safety at MIT and UC Berkeley, work with Kaiser’s Patient Safety Fellowship, and a semester-long clerkship with UC Berkeley Public Health Students focused on safety