SQUIRE People

Frank Davidoff, MD

Frank Davidoff received his MD degree from Columbia University in 1959, and his residency training in internal medicine and endocrinology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He served on the faculty at Harvard and University of Connecticut Medical Schools prior to becoming Senior Vice President for Education at the American College of Physicians, then Editor of Annals of Internal Medicine, on March 1, 1995. He retired as Annals Editor on July 1, 2001, and is now Executive Editor for the Boston-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Dr. Davidoff has been the principal investigator of research grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Fund for Medical Education, the Commonwealth Fund, the Pew Charitable Trust, and the American College of Physicians-American Society for Internal Medicine Foundation.

He has served on the Non-Prescription Drug Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration, is Vice-President of the board of Physicians for Human Rights, and is a member of the editorial boards of Quality and Safety in Healthcare and the Journal of General Internal Medicine. His publications include more than 130 original papers and book chapters on lipid metabolism, diabetes, and molecular pharmacology, as well as medical education, medical decision-making, publication, research ethics, and quality improvement; he has also written numerous editorials and commentary on clinical medicine, medical editing, and the environment of medical practice. He is the author of a book of essays, "Who Has Seen a Blood Sugar? Reflections on Medical Education."

Paul Batalden, MD

Paul B. Batalden, M.D. leads the creation and delivery of educational opportunities for physicians, nurses, healthcare workers, healthcare administrators and their teachers about the improvement of the quality, value and safety of health care.  Dr. Batalden also serves as the Senior Vice-President for Health Professional Development of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a position he took after serving as the founding chairman of the IHI Board. He is the Chair of the IHI Health Professions Education Collaborative whose aim is to prepare health professionals to lead the continual improvement of the quality, safety and value of health care.

Dr. Batalden is the Project Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Publication Guidelines Grant (SQUIRE).

David Stevens, MD

David P. Stevens is a board-certified internist and gastroenterologist.
He is Editor-in-Chief of Quality and Safety in Health Care, the BMJ journal dedicated to global healthcare improvement and safety, and Adjunct Professor in the Center for Leadership and Improvement of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
During Academic Year 2003-2004, he was the George W. Merck Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston.
Previously, he was Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and the Scott R. Inkley Professor of General Internal Medicine at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio.
From 1995 until 2007, Dr. Stevens served in various roles in Washington, DC, including: Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow at the Institute of Medicine, and health policy advisor to the Chair of the Senate Labor Committee, Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum; Chief of Academic Affiliations at the Department of Veterans Affairs Headquarters, working with Undersecretary Kenneth Kizer; and finally, Vice President for Healthcare Improvement and founding Director of the Institute for Improving Clinical Care of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
He serves in numerous national and international advisory roles, including the Advisory Board of BMJ.

Greg Ogrinc, MD, MS

Greg Ogrinc is a general internist working at the White River Junction VA Hospital in White River Junction, VT. He is currently the Director of the Office of Research and Innovation in Medical Education and an Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine and of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. Dr. Ogrinc graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1997 and completed his residency in internal medicine at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland in 2000. In June 2002, he completed a two-year fellowship in the VA National Quality Scholars Program at the White River Junction Veterans Hospital. In addition to his clinical duties, he serves as the Associate Director of the Quality Literature Program at The Dartmouth Institute (TDI) for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and as a co-instructor for the Statistics of Quality Improvement course at TDI. He was the lead author of the SQUIRE Explanation and Elaboration (E&E) manuscript.

Leslie Walker

Leslie Walker joined Dartmouth College in 2007. She is the Program Administrator for the VA National Quality Scholars Program. She has played a pivotal role in developing and maintaining the SQUIRE website as the Managing Editor.