
Martin Hatlie, JD
President and CEO – Project Patient Care and Co-Director at MedStar Institute for Quality and Safety
Marty Hatlie is President & CEO for Project Patient Care, a Chicago-based safety and quality improvement coalition dedicated to using the voice of the patient to improve care. He also serves as Co-Director of the MedStar Institute for Quality & Safety, which integrates open and honest communication strategies, patient and family engagement, research and high reliability organization methods into quality and safety improvement. He is passionate about advancing the roles patients and families play in improving safety in healthcare advisors and co-creators of solutions. He has been active for over 25 years in health system transformation work on projects funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality and Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, among others. Hatlie is a founding member of the World Health Organization Patients for Patient Safety network of patient safety advocates in the United States.