Martin J. Hatlie (Project Patient Care) Martin Hatlie is a lawyer, licensed in Illinois and Massachusetts. Drawing on experience as a civil rights attorney, malpractice defense litigator, lobbyist and coalition-builder, he is active in both public and organizational policy development on patient safety, litigation reform and patient safety issues.
Mr. Hatlie is President of Partnership for Patient Safety (p4ps), a patient-centered initiative dedicated to advancing the reliability of healthcare systems worldwide. Among other activities, p4ps develops case based training tools exploring systems problems that produce adverse patient events. Its interactive educational programs, the First Do No Harm® video series, developed in partnership with the Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions, are used widely throughout the world.
In 1997 Hatlie coordinated the American Medical Association’s launch of the National Patient Safety Foundation and served as its founding Executive Director. In 2003 he co-founded Consumers Advancing Patient Safety, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the role of the consumer as a proactive partner in pursing safe healthcare, where he currently serves as Program Chair and member of the board of directors. Hatlie collaborated in the development of the Patient Safety Education Project, a high impact adult learning initiative housed at Northwestern University’s Buehler Center, and has qualified as a Master Facilitator in disseminating the program. He also serves on the Leapfrog Group Board of Directors, the World Health Organization’s Patients for Patient Safety Steering Committee, the Advisory Board of Parents of Infants and Children with Kernicterus, and the Joint Commission’s Patient Safety Advisory Group.
Previously, Mr. Hatlie was a member of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Executive Session on Medical Error and served on the boards of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, the Physician Insurers Association of America and the American Tort Reform Association. Mr. Hatlie has authored numerous articles addressing patient safety and medical liability issues and is co-editor of the Patient Safety Handbook, one of the first textbooks in the field.