Mort is senior vice president of quality and safety and chief quality officer at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She is a primary care physician with clinical interests in women's heath, prevention and chronic disease management.

Pronovost is vice president for patient safety and quality and director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.

Deyling is chief quality officer at Cleveland Clinic, chairman of Regional Operations, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Clinic Board of Governors and executive director, Cleveland Clinic Allied Health Education.

Ting is chief quality officer at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where he oversees the hospital's clinical quality and patient safety initiatives.

Sullivan is vice president of quality and patient safety at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. She is responsible for clinical effectiveness and quality improvement efforts across the health system,

Barnard is vice president of quality at Northwestern Memorial HealthCare in Chicago. She is responsible for clinical quality management/Improvement, patient safety, risk management, infection prevention, patient engagement, patient experience, regulatory and accreditation compliance and medical ethics.

Minnier is chief quality officer for University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. She coordinates the activities of more than 20 hospitals, 3,200 physicians, 2 million health plan enrollees and international hospital sites in Ireland, Italy and Singapore.

Behal joined Stanford Health-Stanford Hospital in May 2014 as chief quality officer and associate dean for quality. He comes to Stanford from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago where he was associate chief medical officer and patient safety officer.