David W. Bates, MD, MSc, an internationally renowned safety expert, is receiving the Michael R. Cohen Lifetime Achievement Award for his groundbreaking research evaluating the incidence and preventability of adverse drug events and harm from medications. He has demonstrated that information technology such as computerized medication orders and clinical decision support can help decrease the risk of serious errors. Dr. Bates is among the 400 most cited biomedical researchers and his work has been referred to in Health Care Financing Administration regulations, the Medicare Patient Advisory Commission’s 1999 Report to Congress, and the Institute of Medicine’s report To Err is Human. He is the Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis at Mass General Brigham and a Senior Physician and Director of the Center for Patient Safety Research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

David W. Bates, MD, MSc

Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis, Mass General Brigham
Senior Physician and Director, Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health