Christine Goeschel RN, MPA, MPS ScD (c)
Director of Patient Safety and Quality Initiatives, and Manager of Operations
The Johns Hopkins University Quality and Safety Research Group (QSRG)
Christine Goeschel is a clinical instructor in the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and associate faculty in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. An executive with over 20 years of acute care experience, Chris has held positions that include both pediatric and adult critical care R.N., Chief Nursing Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer. Ms. Goeschel has a long and successful record of accomplishment in strategic and program development, project management, and education/training for health system leaders’ at all structural levels.
In 2000, she created a non-profit division at the Michigan Health & Hospital Association dedicated to Quality and Patient Safety Improvement, the “MHA Keystone Center” serving as its Executive Director. A major Keystone project involved ICU’s across Michigan, conducted in collaboration with Hopkins Patient Safety Leader, Dr. Peter Pronovost and his research group. The success of that project was the subject of lead articles in The New England Journal of Medicine and fostered a number of national and international projects that are still evolving. Ms. Goeschel was a national Patient Safety Leadership Fellow in 2003-2004, and has served on a variety of state and national nursing and health care leadership boards.
She is a frequent speaker on topics of quality, safety and leading change, and currently focuses her efforts on the development and implementation of large collaborative projects nationally and, through an evolving relationship between the QSRG and the World Health Organization, internationally.
Chris is a doctoral candidate in Health Systems Management at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine where her research explores characteristics of hospital boards and their association with hospital quality and safety performance.
