Jason Boulanger
Senior Program Director for Patient Safety, Grants, and the Risk Assessment Unit
CRICO
Jason Boulanger is a Senior Program Director for Patient Safety and also serves as Director of the Grants program.
Jason is the patient safety liaison for the following organizations: Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Brigham & Women’s Faulkner Hospital, Newton Wellesley Hospital, Mount Auburn Hospital, MIT Health Services, Harvard University Health Services, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
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Case Study
A 53-year-old male died intraoperatively during an elective total knee replacement after suffering a cardio-pulmonary arrest.