​Rick Kundravi has been with the Patient Safety Authority (PSA) since 2009 as the patient safety advisor for the Northwest Region of Pennsylvania. In this role Kundravi is responsible for assisting the 68 licensed healthcare facilities in his region to reduce and eliminate medical errors. He has assisted in several projects in his current role. These projects included the Hospital Improvement and Innovation Network (HIIN) Reducing Injuries from Falls and Immobility Project; The Online Education on the Value, Importance and Obligation of Patient Safety in Pennsylvania Project; and the Patient Safety Officer's Event Reporting Toolkit Project. He also served as the facilitator and team leader of the statewide Behavioral Health Falls Prevention Workgroup, and has published two articles for the PSA’s Patient Safety Advisory; "Meeting the Challenges Associated with the Morbidly Obese Patient" and "Disclosure: Understanding the Barriers to Communicating Unanticipated Outcomes." He attained his certification as a Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) and is a certified TeamSTEPPS Master Trainer.

Prior to coming to the PSA, Kundravi served as the director of Risk Management and Patient Safety at UPMC McKeesport as well as the facility’s corporate compliance officer, privacy officer, director of Peer Review, regulatory compliance officer and patient representative. In his role as patient safety officer, Kundravi conducted educational sessions on failure mode and effects analysis, common cause analysis, root cause analysis (RCA), and Just Culture, and served as chairman of the facility’s Patient Safety and Patient Experience committees. Kundravi was also the facilitator of the Patient Safety Staff Education team that received a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.​