Laura Pozzobon (she/her) is a Registered Nurse, Certified Health Executive, and PhD student in Health Quality at Queen's University. Her career has been defined by a commitment to advancing safe, equitable, and patient-partnered care. She is the Director of Quality, Safety & Patient Experience at Women's College Hospital (WCH), where she leads system-level initiatives that improve care delivery, reduce avoidable harm, and strengthen patient and family engagement. Her research focuses on patient engagement in patient safety and leadership in patient safety and quality improvement, with her PhD work examining patient involvement in measuring medication safety at local, national, and global levels.
Academic & professional appointments:
- OPDES Health Sciences Resident, Queen’s University
- Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University
- Research Consultant, ISMP Canada
- Course Co-Director, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
- Adjunct Lecturer, University of Toronto Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
- Co-chair, Improving Patient Safety Workstream, TAHSN & CQuIPS
Recent Publications available on ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1321-8872