AAMI & Becton Dickinson's Patient Safety Award
Frank Overdyk, MSEE, MD, staff anesthesiologist for Roper St. Francis Health System in Charleston, SC

This award recognizes outstanding achievements by a healthcare professional who has made a significant advancement toward improving patient safety. AAMI & Becton Dickinson’s 2018 Patient Safety Award will be presented to Frank Overdyk, who has dedicated his career to studying opioid-induced respiratory depression (OIRD) and seeking to prevent ORID-related injuries and deaths through the use of continuous electronic monitoring. Overdyk is an internationally recognized expert—and advocate—in this field and has served as the clinical lead for the AAMI Foundation’s National Coalition to Promote the Continuous Monitoring of Patients on Opioids since 2014. Under his leadership, this coalition has brought together a multidisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, HTM professionals, risk managers, and vendor representatives to share and disseminate best practices and make the business case for the implementation of continuous monitoring technology in hospitals. Overdyk has published numerous articles related to OIRD and is the medical director of an ongoing international study designed to assess the frequency of this issue and the impact of continuous monitoring on patient safety.
AAMI’s HTM Leadership Award
Jennifer Jackson, director of connectivity at Masimo

This award, which honors individual excellence, achievement, and leadership in the HTM field, will be presented to Jennifer Jackson for her work to bring device integration to the forefront of the HTM profession. In 2015, Jackson led one of the first enterprise-wide deployments of bidirectional infusion pump integration in the country, further closing the medication administration loop. She also has worked with industry leaders to promote the adoption of flexible and open device integration platforms, which allow for more seamless and vendor agnostic connectivity, serving on the inaugural Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Patient Care Device and Medical Device Plug-and-Play committees.

Jackson has been a leader in several national organizations, serving as a past president of ACCE, chairing the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s task force for medical devices and patient safety, and serving on AAMI’s Clinical Engineering Productivity & Cost Effectiveness Committee and the BI&T Editorial Board. In addition, she is a sought-after speaker on topics such as device integration, CE-IT synergy, and women in HTM, and is the associate editor of the Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine.

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