Lunch and Learn: The Moore Foundation’s Diagnostic Excellence Initiative – Past, Present, and Future

Daniel Yang, MD is a program director of Patient Care at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation where he established the Diagnostic Excellence Initiative. The initiative aims to reduce harm from erroneous or delayed diagnoses, reduce costs and redundancy in the diagnostic process and improve patients outcomes through timely, accurate, efficient, equitable and patient-centered diagnoses. Daniel is also a practicing hospitalist and a board-certified internal medicine physician. He completed his residency training at the University of California, San Francisco. He subsequently completed a fellowship in health care systems design at Stanford University's Clinical Excellence Research Center. He received his bachelors and medical degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Karen Cosby, MD, FACEP, CPPS is an academic emergency medicine physician who has practiced and taught emergency medicine for 30 years. As Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Rush University and senior emergency physician at Cook County Hospital she led departmental and hospital wide Quality and Oversight divisions and focused her academic work on better understanding medical error and finding system solutions to improve patient safety. As a Program Director of the Diagnostic Excellence Initiative at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, she manages a portfolio of grants designed to improve measurement of diagnostic quality. She is one of the founding members of SIDM and helped originate and lead the SIDM Fellowship in Diagnosis, and since joining the Foundation has helped establish similar opportunities for fellows and scholars with the National Academy of Medicine and the Society of Bedside Medicine. She has edited two books: Diagnosis Interpreting the Shadows and Patient Safety in Emergency Medicine.

Helen Burstin, MD, MPH is the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS). CMSS and its 43-member societies represent almost 800,000 U.S. physician members. CMSS member societies collaborate to enhance the quality of care delivered in the U.S. healthcare system and to improve the health of the public. Dr. Burstin formerly served as Chief Scientific Officer of The National Quality Forum. Prior to joining NQF, Dr. Burstin was the Director of the Center for Primary Care, Prevention, and Clinical Partnerships at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Prior to joining AHRQ, Dr. Burstin was Director of Quality Measurement at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. She was selected as a Baldrige Executive Fellow in 2016. Dr. Burstin is the author of more than 90 articles and book chapters on quality, safety and disparities.