Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Clare Mock presents: “From Just Culture to the Criminalization of Human Error: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the current state of Patient Safety in the US”

Clare Mock, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at UNC. Her primary academic interests are in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement, with an emphasis on responding to and learning from medical errors. Her other interests are professionalism in medicine and working to create more efficient and effective processes and workflows. Dr Mock holds a BA from Miami University (Ohio) and an MD from Ohio State College of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore in 2011. She has undergone training in Lean and Six Sigma improvement methodologies, TeamSTEPPS master training, and Human Factors Engineering and has served as an external medical expert witness. Prior to her role as Director for Safety for the Department of Medicine, she served as Medical Director for the UNC Hillsborough Campus and served as the Medical Director for the Medical Center’s Mortality Reduction Program. She has three children – 9, 7 & 2 – and her husband is also faculty at UNC with dual Pulmonary/CC and Microbiology appointments.