Masimo Founder and CEO Joe Kiani, who founded the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) in 2012, has been honored with a 2023 Robert L. Wears Patient Safety Leadership Award, in the individual category.
Since 2018, the award has been presented in honor of the late Robert L. Wears, MD, MS, PhD, an emergency medicine physician who transformed the way in which investigators approach patient safety research. A pioneer in the field and active researcher, Dr. Wears provided mentorship and guidance to an array of healthcare providers pursuing careers in safety science, while serving as a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine–Jacksonville for more than 20 years.
Mr. Kiani was recognized for his work towards eliminating preventable medical harm and creating a safer healthcare system around the world. For more than a decade, the PSMF has inspired thousands of clinicians around the world to make a public commitment to ZERO harm.
