Dev Raheja MS,CSP, author of Safer Hospital Care: Strategies for Continuous Innovation, is an international risk management, patient safety and quality assurance consultant for Healthcare, medical device, and aerospace industry for over 25 years. He applies evidence base safety techniques from a variety of industries to healthcare. He has served as Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland for five years for its PhD program in Reliability Engineering. Currently he is an Adjunct Professor at the Florida Tech University for its Business Administration degree in Healthcare Management. He is a Certified Safety Professional through the Board of Certified Safety Professionals, took training in “Perfecting Patient Care” through the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, an organization supported by 40 hospitals, and is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives. He is a former National Baldrige Award examiner among the first batch of examiners. He is the author of the forthcoming book “Preventing Medical Device Recalls (Taylor & Francis)