Harkness Project Title: Engaging Clinicians in Health Care Reform Placement: Partners Community Health Care

Mentors: Thomas H. Lee, M.D., CEO, Partners Community Health Care
Thomas D. Sequist, M.D.. Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Biography at time of Harkness Fellowship: Jonny Taitz, M.B.Ch.B., FRACP, FCP (SA), a 2010-11 Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, is assistant director of clinical operations and staff specialist pediatrician at Sydney Children's Hospital. He is also conjoint lecturer at the University of New South Wales, and serves as NSW Clinical Lead in Incident Management on the Clinical Excellence Commission. Past positions include a secondment as medical advisor, quality and safety branch, for the NSW Department of Health, and head of pediatrics at Royal North Shore Hospital. Taitz received the Medical Media Award for outstanding community service in 2009 and was nominated for the Nelson Mandela Health and Human Rights Award in 1997 for establishing the first HIV/AIDS clinic in East London, South Africa. Taitz received his M.B.Ch.B. from the University of Cape Town, where he received the Cuthbert Chricton Prize in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Email: jtaitz@partners.org

Harkness-Related Publications

Taitz JM, Lee TH, Sequist TD. “A framework for engaging physicians in quality and safety.” BMJ Quality and Safety 2011.