Dr. Wachter is Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Associate Chairman of UCSF's Department of Medicine, Chief of the Medical Service at UCSF Medical Center, and Chief of UCSF's 50-faculty Division of Hospital Medicine.

Dr. Wachter is an expert in patient safety, health care quality, and the organization of hospital care; he has published over 200 articles and six books in these areas. He coined the term "hospitalist" in a 1996 New England Journal of Medicine article and is generally acknowledged as the academic leader of the field, the fastest growing specialty in modern medical history. He is a past president of the Society of Hospital Medicine.

He is also a national leader in the fields of patient safety and health care quality. He is editor of AHRQ WebM&M, an online case-based patient safety journal, and AHRQ Patient Safety Network, the leading federal patient safety portal. Together, these Web sites receive 2 million visits each year. He has written two books on patient safety, and has discussed the topic on Good Morning America, PBS's NewsHour, CNN's American Morning, and CBS Sunday Morning. His blog, Wachter's World (www.wachtersworld.org), is one of the nation's most popular health care blogs. Modern Physician magazine has ranked him as one of the 30 most influential physicians in the United States several times; his #10 ranking in 2010 made him the most highly ranked academic physician in the country.

Dr. Sehgal is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he spends approximately half his time as a clinical educator on the inpatient medical service and the rest as an investigator with interests in patient safety and quality measurement.

Dr. Sehgal sits on local patient safety committees and carries a strong interest in developing model units to test the most effective strategies to improve both the quality and safety of care in hospitalized patients. He co-authored a chapter on quality measurement in the leading textbook on Hospital Medicine, and he is working to improve the collaboration among physicians with nurses, pharmacists, and administrators in designing patient safety interventions.

Dr. Sehgal received his medical degree from Rush University in Chicago. He completed a residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford University Hospital and Clinics before moving on to complete a fellowship at the Stanford Prevention Research Center studying prevention outcomes. During his fellowship, he earned a master's in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Sharpe is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is also the Associate Division Chief in the Division of Hospital Medicine and one of the Associate Program Directors for the UCSF Internal Medicine Residency. In these positions, Dr. Sharpe is active in hospital quality improvement, including JCAHO Core Measures Performance, discharge coordination, and patient flow. He serves on the Physician Advisory Group, the primary physician group acting to implement computerized physician order entry at Moffitt-Long Hospital. In his educational roles, he oversees all inpatient rotations at UCSF and regularly lectures to housestaff and students on topics including quality improvement, community-acquired pneumonia, and discharge planning.

Dr. Sharpe graduated from Harvard Medical School and was a categorical resident and chief resident at UCSF.

Dr. Young is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco, Associate Director of Adult Psychiatry Clinic at Langley Porter, and Associate Director for the Residency Training Program in the Department of Psychiatry. He is a graduate of Harvard College, UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, UCSF School of Medicine, and UCSF Residency Program in General Psychiatry. His principal research interests are in patient safety, quality improvement, EBM and clinical decision making, and medical education.

Dr. Blegen is a Professor in the Department of Community Health Systems and Director of the Center for Patient Safety in the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. She holds a BSN from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD, and a master's in Nursing and a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Iowa.

Dr. Blegen serves as Associate Editor for Nursing Research and is a member of the Expert Panel on Quality Health Care for the American Academy of Nursing and the Governance and Advisory Council for the California Nursing Outcomes Coalition. She is Co-Principal Investigator on a project addressing patient safety in three San Francisco Bay hospitals funded by the Gordan and Betty Moore Foundation.

Dr. Blegen's currently active research activities include completion of three national studies: Nurse Staffing and the Quality of Patient Care [funded by National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)], assessment of the validity of Quality Indicators in Long Term Care [by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)], and Nurses' Workforce Conditions: Effects on Medication Safety (funded by AHRQ). She is beginning a new research project in Quality Care in Acute Inpatient Units, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Dr. Guglielmo is Professor and Chair of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco and Associate Director of Pharmaceutical Services at the UCSF Medical Center. He earned his doctorate in Pharmacy from the University of Southern California and completed a 1-year postdoctoral general practice residency at the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Guglielmo has served in a number of roles at UCSF, including as a clinical pharmacist in the intensive care unit and infectious diseases pharmacist. Dr. Guglielmo developed the UCSF Medical Center Antimicrobial Management Program in the 1980s and has mentored infectious diseases specialty residents and fellows continuously since 1986. He created the role of the HIV specialty pharmacist at the UCSF Medical Center Ambulatory Care Center. Leadership roles include Interim Director of Pharmaceutical Services, Associate Director of Inpatient Clinical Services in the Department of Pharmaceutical Services, and Vice Chair of Scholarship for the Department of Clinical Pharmacy.

His primary research interests involve the safe, effective, and appropriate use of antimicrobials, as well as the pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacokinetics of anti-infective agents. He serves as long-term editor of Applied Therapeutics: The Clinical Use of Drugs and the Handbook for Applied Therapeutics.