Peter Pronovost

Peter Pronovost (born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1964 or 1965) is an intensive care specialist physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Surgery and is Medical Director for the Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care. He introduced an intensive care checklist protocol that during an 18... more

Peter Pronovost (born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1964 or 1965) is an intensive care specialist physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Surgery and is Medical Director for the Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care. He introduced an intensive care checklist protocol that during an 18-month period saved 1500 lives and $100 million in the State of Michigan. According to Atul Gawande in The New Yorker, Pronovost's "work has already saved more lives than that of any laboratory scientist in the past decade." In 2008 Time named Pronovost one of the 100 most influential people in the world; that same year, Pronovost was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, otherwise known as a "genius grant." Currently, Pronovost is writing a book due to come out in February 2010. Pronovost grew up in Waterbury, Connecticut. His parents were an... less