Seth A. Krevat, M.D., FACP

Seth A. Krevat, M.D., FACP, is Senior Medical Director and Assistant Vice President at the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, and practices palliative care at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. He is an assistant professor of Clinical Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and is board certified in internal medicine and in hospice and palliative medicine.

For approximately seven years he served as Assistant Vice President for Safety at MedStar Health, a ten-hospital system, where he led the development and implementation of the system's patient safety program. In that role every reported adverse event in the system came through him and his team — missed diagnoses, wrong-site and wrong-procedure events, falls with injury, medication errors reaching the ICU — and he was responsible for assessing them, ensuring they were understood correctly, and identifying corrective action. His team worked alongside MedStar's risk management department, and he sat on the monthly claims review committee where serious claims were evaluated.

Dr. Krevat is named on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's acknowledgments for the CANDOR toolkit as a member of the Expert Faculty that led the design and teaching of the CANDOR curriculum, alongside Thomas Gallagher, Richard Boothman, Timothy McDonald, and Rollin “Terry” Fairbanks. MedStar Health piloted the CANDOR toolkit for AHRQ, and Dr. Krevat led its implementation across the system; MedStar reported that its rate of serious safety events was cut in half after adopting CANDOR principles.

His research is published in JAMA Network Open, JAMA Health Forum, the Journal of Patient Safety, the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Applied Ergonomics, and npj Digital Medicine. He is first author of a study analyzing closed malpractice claims to identify how the electronic health record contributes to diagnostic error in ambulatory care.

Before joining MedStar he was a hospitalist and physician advisor at Virginia Mason Medical Center, where he was trained in Lean and Toyota Production System methods. He received his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine and holds a B.A. in Economics and English, cum laude, from Tufts University.