Peter B. Angood, MD, FACS
Former Vice President and Chief Patient Safety Officer
Joint Commission

Dr. Peter Angood was the Chief Patient Safety Officer and a Vice President for The Joint Commission (TJC), overseeing annual development of TJC’s National Patient Safety Goals and other enterprise-wide patient safety initiatives at the time he received the Pete Conrad Global Patient Award on behalf of the Joint Commission for its role in harmonizing national safe practices with the other award winners. He received his medical degree from the University of Manitoba in Canada and completed his training in General Surgery, Trauma and Critical Care at McGill University in Montreal and the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. After initially practicing surgery with hospitals of McGill University, Angood was recruited to the University of Pennsylvania and has subsequently held surgery faculty and hospital administrative positions at Yale University and at Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently a Professor of Surgery, Anesthesia, and Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He later became the National Quality Forum’s (NQF) first Senior Advisor on Patient Safety, where he guided projects to improve patient safety and quality. Since 2012 he has been Chief Executive Officer and President of the American Association for Physician Leadership; the only professional organization solely focused on leadership education and management training for the physician workforce – an organization with membership in over 45 countries.