Marty Hatlie is Director for Policy and Advocacy for Patients for Patient Safety US (PFPS US), which he co-founded in 2021. He is passionate about advancing the roles patients and family caregivers play as patient safety advocates and co-creators of solutions. Hatlie has been active for over 25 years in health system transformation work on research projects and transformation campaigns funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, and Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, among others.

He served on the Technical Expert Panel that produced the CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure in 2023. He was Co-PI on the AHRQ project that drafted the Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families (2018) and a consultant in the development of the AHRQ CANDOR (Communication and Optimal Resolution) Toolkit (2016). He served as strategy lead for patient and family engagement tracks of the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign and its Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative. He is currently on the PFPS US leadership team, developing Project PIVOT (Patients Involved in developing Outcomes Together), a PCORI-funded initiative focused on prioritizing what patients want to report on experiences of patient safety events, missed or delayed diagnoses, and bias.

Hatlie serves on the governance boards of PFPS US, Project Patient Care, Certified Professional in Patient Safety, and the Alliance for Integrated Medication Management. He is co-chair of the Leapfrog Group’s Patient and Family Engagement Expert Panel, and sits on Advisory Boards with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the World Health Organization, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation Coalition for Advancing Safer Healthcare, and the European Support4Resilience research project, among others.