Biography:

Dev Raheja, MS, CSP, author of the books Safer Hospital Care and Design for Reliability, is international risk management, patient safety and quality assurance consultant for medical device, consumer products, healthcare and aerospace industry for over 25 years. Prior to becoming a consultant in 1982, he worked at GE Healthcare as Supervisor of Quality Assurance/Manager of Manufacturing, and at Booz-Allen & Hamilton as a Risk Management consultant for a variety of systems.

Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor at Florida Tech for its BBA degree in Healthcare Management and the online faculty at the University of Maryland where he teaches courses on Reliability and Safety. He is a Founding Fellow of American College of Healthcare Trustees and a member of American College of Healthcare Executives, He is a former National Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award Examiner in the first batch of examiners

He serves on the Patient and Families Advisory Council at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He helped them in providing 24/7 access to family members of patients and reduced the number of alarms for nurses so they recognize critical patient needs early.

He teaches an online course “Quality Improvement Methods in Healthcare” for Florida Tech University, and teaches Design for Safety for the University of Maryland. He is interested in innovative applications for high profitability.