The Graduate Medical Education office is pleased to announce Dr. Richard Griffey as the new GME Director of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement. Beginning in July 2024, Dr. Griffey will lead the GME efforts in patient safety and quality improvement curricula and initiatives while helping to ensure the GME Consortium meets ACGME Institutional Requirements.
Dr. Richard Griffey is Professor and Vice Chair for Quality and Patient Safety in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis and a nationally recognized leader, health services researcher and educator in patient safety and quality. Dr. Griffey received undergraduate and medical degrees at Vanderbilt University and Eastern Virginia Medical School. He completed residency in the Harvard Emergency Medicine program at Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals and a MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Griffey also completed Patient Safety Fellowships with the National Patient Safety Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Dr. Griffey served on the faculty at Brigham and Women’s Hospital for six years prior to moving to Washington University in 2007 as Associate Division Chief of Emergency Medicine. He served as Coursemaster in the WashU Institute for Public Health where he developed and taught a course on Patient Safety, Quality Measurement and Quality Improvement. Dr. Griffey has held multiple leadership roles in the Quality infrastructure of the American College of Emergency Physicians where he also helped establish the federally qualified Clinical Emergency Data Registry.
Dr. Griffey is the recipient of a KM1 award in clinical effectiveness and R18 and R01 awards from AHRQ for his work developing a computerized trigger tool for adverse event detection in the emergency department. With funding from the BJH Foundation, he also developed the SQ insulin pathway for diabetic ketoacidosis at BJH (SQuID). His research interests include adverse event detection, organization of ED care, health communication, evidence-based imaging and implementation science. Dr. Griffey has authored over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts, editorials, and book chapters, serves on the editorial board of Academic Emergency Medicine, and as a grant reviewer at AHRQ and a reviewer for major journals.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Griffey to the GME team!