Chief of Obstetrics and Chief Patient Safety Officer
Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Chris Pettker is Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the Yale School of Medicine. He is the Chief Patient Safety Officer and Chief of Obstetrics at Yale-New Haven Health and Yale Medicine. A native Californian, he came east for college at Princeton University, followed by medical school and residency at Columbia University in New York. He has been at Yale since his Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellowship and has been on faculty since 2007. For over 15 years he has overseen Yale’s comprehensive obstetric patient safety and quality program, one of the first in the country to demonstrate improvements patient care by standardizing treatment methods, creating a high reliability culture, and encouraging communication and collaboration between clinicians and departments. With the role of Chief Patient Safety Officer, he helps lead a 5-hospital, 2700-bed health system in its safety and quality improvement efforts, including that of Yale New Haven Hospital, a US News and World Report “Honor Roll” hospital. He is a practicing clinician with a focus on labor and birth and high-risk pregnancies. His research interests focus on patient safety and healthcare quality and he is the principal investigator at Yale for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal Fetal Medicine Unit Network.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023
3:05 PM – 3:25 PM
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
4:05 PM – 4:15 PM