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THE ROAD TO SAFETY IS FIRST PAVED WITH EQUITY
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Dr. Ronald Wyatt joined MCIC Vermont in January 2020 as the Vice-President and Patient Safety Officer.
He was born in Selma Alabama and grew up in nearby Perry County (Heiberger) Alabama.
As a child, his family relied on public health clinics for preventive health services and when sick, they saw a general practitioner in Greensboro, Alabama whose office was segregated by race and Black people were walk-in only.
Prior to joining MCIC Vermont, Dr. Wyatt was formerly Chief Quality and Patient Safety Officer at Cook County Health, one of the largest public health systems in the United States. He also served as Chief of Patient Safety and Quality for the Hamad Medical Corporation in Doha Qatar. Dr. Wyatt was the first Patient Safety Officer at the Joint Commission and in that role contributed to National Patient Safety Goals.
Dr. Wyatt is an internationally known patient safety and health equity subject matter expert.
He Co-chairs the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Equity Advisory Group and is faculty for the IHI Pursuing Equity Initiative.
Dr. Wyatt is a member of the American College of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Clinical Learning Environment Review committee (CLER) as well as faculty on the ACGME Disparity Collaborative.
The ACGME Disparity Collaborative has been underway for two years. It includes eight academic medical training programs and the focus includes health disparity, healthcare equity, implicit bias, racism in healthcare and cultural humility.
He also serves on several boards including the IHI Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS), the Society to Prevent Diagnostic Error (SIDM) and the Consumers Advocating for Patient Safety (CAPS).
Dr. Wyatt is a credentialed course instructor in the School of Health Professions at the University of Alabama Birmingham, teaching a graduate course in health policy with a focus on health equity, patient safety, and quality.
He is the author of numerous articles, papers and blog pieces on disparity, health equity and racism in healthcare.
Dr. Wyatt is a graduate of the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Medicine, was chief resident in Internal Medicine at St. Louis University School of Medicine, where he was the first Black American Chief resident. He earned the master’s (executive program) in health administration degree from the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Health Professions. He was a 2009-2010 Merck Fellow at IHI.