Mark L. Graber
Senior Fellow, Health Care Quality and Outcomes
Mark Graber, MD, is a senior scientist at RTI and professor emeritus of medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Graber has an extensive background in biomedical and health services research, with more than 70 peer-reviewed publications. He is a national leader in the field of patient safety and originated Patient Safety Awareness Week in 2003, an event now recognized internationally. Dr. Graber has also been a pioneer in efforts to address diagnostic errors in medicine, and his research in this area has been supported by the National Patient Safety Foundation and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In 2008, he founded and chaired the Diagnostic Error in Medicine conference series, and in 2011 the new Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM).
Education
MD, Stanford University School of Medicine; BS (cum laude), Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University.
Publications
Amin, M.M., Graber, M., Ahmad, K., Manta, D., Hossain, S., Belisova, Z., et al. (Oct 2012)
Graber, M.L., Wachter, R.M., & Cassel, C.K. (Sep 2012)
Graber, M.L., Kissam, S., Payne, V.L., Meyer, A.N.D., Sorensen, A., Lenfestey, N., Tant, E., Henriksen, K., LaBresh, K., et al. (Jul 2012)
McKean, S.C., Ross, J.J., Dressler, D.D., Brotman, D.J. & Ginsberg, J.S. (Eds.) (Mar 2012)
Bond, W.F., Schwartz, L.M., Weaver, K.R., Levick, D., Giuliano, M., & Graber, M.L. (Feb 2012)
Expertise
- Internal Medicine and Nephrology
- Patient Safety
- Clinical Decision Support
- Diagnostic Errors in Medicine