AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES
Kathleen E. Walsh, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital
Kathleen E. Walsh is a general pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her research focuses on patient safety, particularly the safe care of children with chronic conditions in the outpatient and home settings. She has experience in the study of medication errors and adverse drug events among children in the hospital, emergency department, clinic, and home, and has developed health information technology interventions to support medication use. Dr. Walsh visited the homes of children with sickle cell disease, cancer, and epilepsy in single-site and multisite studies to understand barriers and facilitators of safe home medication use.
Michelle Bell, BSN, RN, Patient Safety Authority
Michelle Bell is the director of Outreach and Education with the Patient Safety Authority (PSA). Bell began working with the PSA in 2010 as a patient safety liaison for Southeast Pennsylvania. She joined the PSA after completing a yearlong fellowship with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, a world-renowned expert organization on medication safety.
Caitlyn Allen, MPH, Patient Safety Authority
Caitlyn Allen (caiallen@pa.gov) is director of External Affairs for the Patient Safety Authority and managing editor for Patient Safety, the PSA’s peer-reviewed journal. Before joining the PSA, she was the project manager for Patient Safety at Jefferson Health, where she also was the only nonphysician elected to serve on the House Staff Quality and Safety Leadership Council.
Abstract
Children are more than twice as likely as adults to experience a medication error at home. Dr. Kathleen Walsh, pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital, discusses why that is the case and tips to keep kids (and anyone) safe.
