Dr. Carpenter was recently featured in the 2008 Barnes-Jewish Hospital Report to the Community

Goldfarb fellowship shows commitment to patient safety and quality

    Christopher Carpenter, MD, MSc, of the Barnes-Jewish emergency department was named the first two-year Goldfarb Patient Safety and Quality Fellow in July 2008, funded by a gift from the Alvin Goldfarb Foundation.

     Dr. Carpenter knows first-hand challenges of creating an environment that improves patient safety outcomes,  "Within the emergency department, the patient safety function is separated from education and research," he says.  As a Goldfarb Fellow, Dr. Carpenter is focused on creating an environment that improves patient safety outcomes - and in just his first six months of the fellowship, Dr. Carpenter helped change patient safety culture in both immediate and far-reaching ways.

 

"The Goldfarb Fellowship has allowed me to take my research expertise and teaching responsibilities and apply it to patient safety," he says. "It has opened up a door to a patient safety world that I didn't know or understand before."