JoAnne Scalise

Bio: JoAnne Scalise, MS-Patient Safety Leadership, RN, is personally and professionally committed to patient safety and clinical excellence. In her role as Sunquest Information System’s Manager of the Nurse Consultant team, she ensures that patient safety, nursing workflow and care excellence –as well as nurse and clinician safety – are always at the core of all Sunquest specimen and transfusion management solutions. Scalise has extensive experience in adult and neonatal critical care, patient safety, quality, and nursing leadership at the national level.
Scalise has presented nationally on patient safety, clinical adoption of Health IT, quality, leadership, program development and effective communication. She received her Masters of Science in Patient Safety Leadership from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine and her BSN and RN many years before that.