2022 Robert L. Wears Patient Safety Leadership Awardees are Announced.
The awardees for the 2022 Robert L. Wears Patient Safety Leadership Award have been announced. Dr. Yanling Yu and Rex Johnson, co-founders of the Washington Advocates for Patient Safety, are the recipients in the Volunteer Category. Congratulations to Yanling Yu and Rex Johnson!
The award, given annually by the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Institute Regional Center at Jacksonville University and the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville, recognizes health care professionals and teams who work to advance the field of patient safety, develop and mentor future leaders and demonstrate excellence in leading interprofessional initiatives designed to improve quality and safety education and practice.
The award is named in honor of the late Robert L. Wears, MD, MS, PhD, for his pioneering work in transforming the way investigators approach patient safety research. Wears was an active researcher and a professor of emergency medicine at the UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville, where he worked for more than 20 years.
