Rollin J. “Terry” Fairbanks, MD, MS
Rollin J. “Terry” Fairbanks, MD, MS, is Senior Vice President and Chief Quality & Safety Officer at MedStar Health and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Georgetown University. He leads clinical quality, patient safety, infection prevention, and health equity across a 10-hospital academic system in the Baltimore/Washington region. An emergency physician, human factors engineer, safety scientist, and former paramedic and pilot, he founded the National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare in 2010, now the largest embedded center of its kind in the U.S. He has authored 200+ publications and a book on healthcare safety, and advised organizations in the US, UK, and Australia. Dr. Fairbanks serves on the National Academies Board on Human-Systems Integration and chairs the IHI Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) Board. He holds degrees from Potsdam College, Virginia Tech, VCU, and trained in emergency medicine at the University of Rochester.