Lucian Leape is a physician and professor at Harvard School of Public Health, who has been active in trying to improve the medical system to reduce medical error.
[1] In 1994 he had an article, "Error in Medicine," published in JAMA, which called for the application of systems theory to prevent medical errors.
In 1997, he testified before a subcommittee of the US Senate with his recommendations for improving medical safety.
[3] He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1959 after receiving an AB from Cornell University in 1952.
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