Spotlight on Daniel Patterson, PhD, MPH, EMT-B
Dr. Patterson is a Pennsylvania certified EMT-Basic and Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He holds a doctorate in health services policy and management from the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. From 2004-2006, Dr. Patterson was an AHRQ (T-32) post-doctorate fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Patterson has received focused education and training in patient safety. He is a graduate of the Patient Safety Leadership Program co-sponsored by the American Hospital Association and National Patient Safety Foundation.
He is also the first non-physician recipient of the Patient Safety Fellowship co-sponsored by the Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. Dr. Patterson has served on several committees addressing quality and safety. From 2008 to 2009, he served as an ad-hoc member of the National EMS Advisory Council's safety sub-committee established by the Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters in 2006. In July of 2010, Dr. Patterson was appointed by Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood to a 2-year term on the National EMS Advisory Council. Other committees include the steering committee for the EMS Workforce Data Definitions Project supported by the NHTSA Office of EMS.
Dr. Patterson's research seeks to apply techniques perfected in sociology, industrial psychology, and organizational behavior to identify and reduce threats to quality, safety, and performance in EMS.
