Advancing Outpatient Safety with Reliable and Actionable Insights - on demand

Miki Patterson is a certified orthopedic nurse practitioner with more than 25 years of clinical experience in healthcare consulting, direct advanced orthopedic patient care, university-level teaching and quantitative and qualitative National Institutes of Health (NIH) research and publishing. She has more than 30 peer-reviewed publications, delivered hundreds of presentations and review courses and previously served as president of the National Association of Orthopedic Nurses. Dr. Patterson was recently awarded The Outstanding Contribution to Orthopedic Nursing. She was part of the National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses research task force on safe patient handling and movement, working with other organizations and experts to delineate high risk for injury tasks and develop algorithms for staff and patient safety. Dr. Patterson currently serves as the product owner of the 3M™ Ambulatory Potentially Preventable Complications (AM-PPCs) grouping software for 3M Health Information Systems. She earned her bachelor of science in nursing at Fitchburg State University, master’s degree from Boston College and PhD in nursing research from University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Dr. Sandeep Wadhwa is the global chief medical officer for 3M Health Information Systems, where he oversees development of payment and quality methodologies used by multiple countries and U.S. payers and providers. He is a population health leader with a particular focus on serving underserved populations. Sandeep served as the state Medicaid director for Colorado during the Great Recession. He has had leadership positions with Solera Health, Noridian and McKesson and serves on the board of Reinvestment Fund, a $1-billion nonprofit devoted to revitalizing low-income neighborhoods, and the Population Health Alliance. Sandeep volunteers at the Seniors Clinic at the University of Colorado Hospital. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Wesleyan, MD at Cornell and MBA at Wharton, and is board certified in internal medicine and geriatrics.