Kathleen Sutcliffe, PhD
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Business and Medicine
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
Kathleen M. Sutcliffe is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor with appointments in the Carey Business School, the School of Medicine (Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine), the School of Nursing, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality.
Her research program has been devoted to investigating how organizations and their members cope with uncertainty and how organizations can be designed to be more reliable and resilient. She has investigated organizational safety, high reliability, and resilience practices in oil and gas exploration and production, chemical processing, steel production, wildland firefighting, and in healthcare. Her research has appeared widely in management and healthcare journals, and she has co-authored seven books. She has presented her work across the world.
Dr. Sutcliffe serves on the editorial boards of several journals and is currently serving as a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine Transportation Research Board Committee on Emerging Trends in Aviation Safety. She has consulted with the leadership teams of numerous companies including Goldman Sachs, Georgia Pacific, Marathon Oil, and ThyssenKrupp.
