FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 1, 2007
Media Contact: Michael Corby 904.632.3310

Florida Community College’s Fourth Annual Patient Safety Conference June 13
Institute for Healthcare Improvement VP James Conway keynote speaker

The Florida Community College at Jacksonville Department of Nursing is hosting the Fourth Annual Excellence in Patient Safety Conference on June 13 at the Nathan H. Wilson Center, FCCJ South Campus, 11901 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville, 7:45 a.m.–4:45 p.m.

The program is approved for contact hours for nurses through the Florida Board of Nursing and through the Professional Board of Regulations for all other disciplines. Registration fee is $75 before May 10; $100 after. For details on pricing and accommodations visit http://www.fccj.edu/patientsafetyconference/, or call 904.766.6524.

Keynote Speaker is James B. Conway, MAM, CHE., senior vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He was EVP and COO of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 1995-2000. Prior to joining Dana-Farber, he had a 27-year career at Children’s Hospital, Boston. His areas of expertise and interest include executive leadership, patient safety, change management and patient/family-centered care.

Joining Conway on the speakers’ roster are a number of regionally and internationally known nursing and health care educators, including Deborah A. Bohr, M.P.H., senior director, special projects, the Health Research and Educational Trust of the American Hospital Association; Louis G. DePaola, D.D.S., M.S., University of Maryland; Monica Hardy Johnson, Ed.D., HIPAA Privacy Administrator, Shands Jacksonville; Jane Mericle, R.N., B.S.N., M.H.S., clinical operations director, Duke Children’s Hospital; Joann Serembus, Ed.D., R.N., C.C.R.N., C.N.E, director of nursing, Drexel Univ.