User:MLGraber

Name:       Mark L Graber, MD Positions:   Professor Emeritus, Stony Brook University, NY             Founder and President Emeritus, Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM)

I am a retired Nephrologist. My medical degree was from Stanford University in 1975 and I received subspecialty fellowship training in Nephrology at Boston University (1975-81). I practiced Nephrology and Internal Medicine for 29+ years at the VA Medical Center in Northport, NY and held academic appointments at Stony Brook University.

Along the way I developed an interest in patient safety as a concern. With Ilene Corina, a patient safety advocate on Long Island, I helped found "Patient Safety Awareness Week" in 2002, an event recognized and supported by The Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Department of Veterans Affairs and now recognized at many hospitals in the US annually. I also started studying diagnostic errors and reported on 100 cases from the VA in a research paper published in 2005. My interests in patient safety and diagnostic errors have grown, and in 2008 I founded the "Diagnostic Error in Medicine" conference, now held annually and supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). In 2014 I founded the non-profit "Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine" (SIDM) and served as President through 2018. I was the 2014 recipient of the John M Eisenberg Award for Advancing Patient Safety, from The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum.

There is very little content on diagnostic error in Wikipedia at the present time, and it is my intention to help author articles on this as a patient safety problem. The articles will focus on the research that has been conducted to date, and the various reviews and white papers that have been written on this. These detail what's known about the likelihood of diagnostic errors, and why and where they happen. There is also substantial information available on diagnostic error in specific diseases that would be important to include in Wikipedia.