Peter Lachman


Peter Lachman, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Irish health service


MD MPH, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Irish health service; Ireland


MD MPH develops and delivers programmes to develop clinical leaders in quality improvement at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He works with the Irish health service global program in Africa. From 2016-21he was International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua), 2005-16, Deputy Medical Director with the lead for Patient Safety at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Consultant Paediatrician at the Royal Free Hospital in London specialising in the challenge of long term conditions for children. He was a Health Foundation Quality Improvement Fellow at IHI in 2005-2006.He is the lead editor of the OUP Handbook on Patient Safety published in April 2022; Co-Editor of the OUP Handbook on Medical Leadership and Management published in December 2022; and Editor of the OUP Handbook on Quality Improvement in Healthcare published February 2024.