Barry Silbaugh
is a consultant
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with Healthcare Performance
Improvement. He is a Past President of the American College of Physician
Executives, and was Vice President of Medical Operations at Denver-based
Catholic Health Initiatives, which won the National Quality Healthcare Award
in 2001. In that role, he served as the physician leader of the national
patient safety program for the system’s seventy hospitals, and worked
on the operations team for numerous hospitals and medical staffs. Dr. Silbaugh
has also worked as Vice President of Medical Management at St. Joseph Healthcare
System in Albuquerque, and served as medical director of New Mexico Blue
Cross and Blue Shield. Passionately curious about people and their efforts
to make the world a better place, he led the first-ever delegation of physician
executives to China and Tibet in 2005 to meet with health ministry and hospital
officials. Dr. Silbaugh currently serves on the Governing Council of the
national Patient Safety Education Project on behalf of ACPE, and is a frequent
writer and lecturer on leadership, safety, and communication topics for
the healthcare industry.
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