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BIOGRAPHY:

Rosemary Gibson is Senior Advisor at the Hastings Center and Perspectives Editor for JAMA
Internal Medicine.

At the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Rosemary was chief architect of its twelve-year $250
million national strategy to establish palliative care in the nation’s hospitals. Today, more than
1800 hospitals have a palliative care program, an increase from about 10 in the 1990s. Ms.
Gibson worked with Bill Moyers on the PBS documentary, “On Our Own Terms.” She is recipient
of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative
Medicine.

While at the Foundation, Ms. Gibson led national quality improvement and patient safety
initiatives working in partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. She funded the
first rapid response systems in two hundred hospitals, among other safety innovations.
Ms. Gibson served as 2019 Co-Chair of the IHI National Patient Safety Congress and will do so
again in 2020. She is on the board of the MedStar Institute for Quality and Patient Safety and
serves as faculty for a four-day summer immersion program in patient safety for medical and
nursing students and residents, the Academy of Emerging Leaders in Patient Safety: The
Telluride Experience which has graduated more than 1300 students and residents.

Ms. Gibson is a board member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and
served for six years on the inaugural ACGME CLER Evaluation Committee to advance patient
safety in teaching hospitals and other clinical learning environments.

She has given grand rounds and patient safety presentations at hundreds of hospitals; keynoted
meetings of the National Quality Forum, The Joint Commission, AONE, National Council of State
Boards of Nursing, Federation of State Medical Boards, National Summit on Overuse held by The
Joint Commission and AMA, Society of Critical Care Medicine, the Joint Commission of
Pharmacy Practitioners, among others. She has been faculty for the Dartmouth Summer
Symposium on Quality Improvement and was its 2013 “wizard.” She received the Lewis
Blackman Patient Safety Award from the South Carolina Hospital Association. Ms. Gibson is the recipient of the highest honor from the American Medical Writers Association for her outstanding contributions to the public’s interest in reporting on critical health care issues.

Her first book, Wall of Silence, puts a human face on the Institute of Medicine report, To
Err is Human. Treatment Trap, Battle Over Health Care, and Medicare Meltdown chronicle the
behind-the-scenes forces that shape health care today.

Her most recent book, China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for
Medicine, reveals the dramatic shift in where medicines are made and growing concerns about
the quality of medicines. It highlights the centralization of the global supply of medicines in a
single country that creates vulnerabilities in the event of a global pandemic, natural disaster, or
geopolitical event.

Her books have been reviewed in Publishers Weekly, Washington Post, JAMA, Health Affairs;
referenced in proceedings of the U.S. Senate; mentioned in Congressional testimony; noted in
the WSJ, Financial Times, NYT, USA Today, Consumer Reports, and Boston Globe, O Magazine,
Reader’s Digest, US News and World Report, Medscape, Modern Healthcare, AARP Magazine
and AARP Bulletin. China Rx was one of 100 books featured at the 2018 National Press Club
Book Fair.

Ms. Gibson has appeared on Chicago Tonight, WBGH’s Greater Boston, The Doctors, Fox Nightly
News, Fox Business News, Full Measure with Sharyl Atkisson, C-Span, and hundreds of radio
programs including WGBH Innovation Hub and the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Ms. Gibson graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University and has a master’s
degree from the London School of Economics.