AGENDA

SOS Rx Coalition Meeting

October 1, 2003

10 – 2 p.m. EST

AFL-CIO, George Meany Room 

815 16th Street, NW, 8th Floor 

Washington, DC

 

 

10 – 10:30                                 Opening Remarks /Welcome  - Linda Golodner, National Consumers League

                                Self- introduction of participants

New participants – brief summary of organization’s previous or current activities in patient safety 

 

10:30 – 11:00                 Tejal K.Gandhi, MD, MPH

Director of Patient Safety, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

                                Topic: Outpatient Medication Safety 

Q & A following remarks

 

11:00 – 11:15                 BREAK

 

11:15 – 11:45                Barbara A. Rudolph, PhD

Director Leaps and Measures, The Leapfrog Group

Topic:  New initiative by the Leapfrog Group in the outpatient area 

Q & A following remarks

 

11: 45 – 12:15                LUNCH

 

12:15 – 12:45                 Consensus Retreat Work Group Report

                                Group discussion of any issues raised

 

12:45– 1:15                  Education Campaign Work Group Report

                                Group discussion of any issues raised

 

1:15 – 1:45                 Next Steps/Other

                                Update on IOM report 

                                Who else needs to be at the table?

                                Becoming an official part of the SOS Rx coalition – sign-on form

Other issues
 

1:45 – 2:00           Closing Remarks