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Stephen D. Small, MD received his MD and internal medicine training at Baylor College of Medicine (1976-1983), where he won the MacIntosh Award for the most outstanding resident. He received his anesthesiology training at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School (1989-1991). Dr. Small was a founding member of the Boston Anesthesia Simulation Center in 1993-1994, helping to transition this first formal medical simulation center translating lessons from aviation training to health care to an interdisciplinary facility (Center for Medical Simulation) in 1996. He served as an investigator on the Harvard Adverse Drug Event Study that followed on the heels of the Harvard Medical Practice Study and provided key data and policy momentum for the Institute of Medicine report, To Err is Human , in 1999. Joining the University of Chicago in 2000, he was a member of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Director, University of Chicago Safety Group (UCSG) with the goal of creating an interdisciplinary Center for Patient Safety at the University. Dr. Small is Principal Investigator for the 2001 AHRQ award designating the UCSG as a Federal Developing Center for Research and Evaluation in Patient Safety. He has given numerous national and keynote lectures; served on Federal grant award study sections, patient safety indicator expert panels, and national peer review committees; provided patient safety testimony to the Surgeon General; and published widely in the emerging patient safety field. He is currently leading the efforts of an interdisciplinary steering group based at the Institute of Medicine of Chicago and funded by the Otho S.A. Sprague Memorial Institute to perform a feasibility study to create a regional medical simulation learning center in Chicago.