Dr. Carol Peden
Dr. Carol Peden MB ChB, MD, FRCA, FFICM, FFMLM, MPH is Executive Director of the Center for Health System Innovation and a Professor of Anesthesiology at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. Her work at Keck Medicine of USC is to improve and innovate in healthcare across the system. Carol has extensive improvement expertise and has designed and lead quality improvement projects around the world. She is a Fellow of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and has acted as Faculty on their work internationally. Dr. Peden was named Public Health Innovator of the Year in 2016 by Harvard School of Public Health for her work in improving outcomes for high risk surgical patients. She is a Co-Chair of the University of Best Practice, Los Angeles, a public health collaborative to reduce heart attack and stroke. Her research interests include improving clinical outcomes, innovation in healthcare, perioperative medicine, patient and person-centered care and patient safety. She is dually accredited in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine. She gained her medical degree and research doctorate at the University of Edinburgh in the UK, and has an MPH from Harvard.
Tom Jackiewicz
Tom Jackiewicz serves as CEO for Keck Medicine of USC, overseeing three Los Angeles-area hospitals –Keck Hospital of USC, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and USC Verdugo Hills Hospital – and the USC Care physician practice, which includes more than 67 ambulatory clinics from Beverly Hills to Bakersfield.
Since joining USC in 2012, Jackiewicz has focused on aggressively expanding Keck Medicine’s geographic footprint, including acquiring a local community hospital and broadening the enterprise’s network of ambulatory clinics.
Jackiewicz serves as president of the Global Data@Work, which uses data, medical evidence and professional insights from the world’s best health care systems to advance health care globally. He is also a board member of the California Hospital Association (CHA) and a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Advisory Panel for Health Care.
Jackiewicz earned his master’s degree from Columbia University and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia.
