Howard Carolan

Mr. Carolan has worked for the past 10 years in clinical innovation and patient safety at the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and at the Johns Hopkins Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care. At the Armstrong Institute he served as lead Project Manager for the development of “Emerge,” in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Emerge is a transdisciplinary patient safety program based on Systems Engineering principles that designed and developed applications with clinicians for improving critical care and patient experience in the ICU.

In his 10 years with Johns Hopkins, Mr. Carolan has been involved with a number of strategic and operational projects spanning the healthcare continuum, with a focus on patient safety, quality improvement, revenue enhancement, and information technology. Howard’s interest in these areas was forged at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he earned his MPH, received an NIH grant for Public Health Informatics training, and served as President of the Anna Baetjer Society for Public Health. Mr. Carolan also completed his MBA from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School with a focus on health care. He has co-authored publications in the areas of patient safety, systems engineering, computerized clinician decision support, pay-for-performance, and Venous Thromboembolism prevention. Mr. Carolan is a graduate of Duke University where he received his Bachelor of Science in economics.