Carole Hemmelgarn, MS, MS
Senior Director, Executive master’s program for Clinical Quality, Safety & Leadership
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Biomedical Graduate Education
Georgetown University
Carole Hemmelgarn, MS, MS, is the Director for the Executive Master’s program in
Clinical Quality, Safety & Leadership at Georgetown University, and the Senior
Director of Education at the MedStar Institute for Quality & Safety. Carole received
a master’s degree in Patient Safety Leadership from the University of Illinois at
Chicago, and a second master’s degree in Health Care Ethics from Creighton
University. She sits on the Leapfrog Patient & Family Caregiver Expert Panel, Board
of Quality, Safety and Experience at Children’s Hospital Colorado, Clinical
Excellence Council for Colorado Hospital Association, ABIM Foundation, Patient
Advisory Committee and the Board of Directors for the Collaborative for
Accountability and Improvement, and the Coordinating Committee for National Quality
Forum. She is also a founding member of Patients for Patient Safety US.
