Peter Lachman

Peter Lachman was Chief Executive Officer of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) from 1st May 2016 to 30th April 2021.
He has great experience as a clinician and leader in quality improvement and patient safety. Dr Lachman was a Health Foundation Quality Improvement Fellow at IHI in 2005-2006 and developed the quality improvement programme at Great Ormond Street Hospital where he was the Deputy Medical Director with the lead for Patient Safety. He was also a Consultant Paediatrician at the Royal Free Hospital in London specialising in the challenge of long term conditions for children.

Currently he is Lead Faculty Quality Improvement at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) in Dublin, where he directs the Leadership and Quality programme to develop clinical leaders in quality improvement.
He works with the Irish Health Executive Global Health Programme in Mozambique and Ethiopia on QI and Patient Safety projects. He is the editor of the OUP Handbook of Patient Safety (2022) and the OUP Handbook on Medical Management and Leadership and the OUP Handbook of Quality Improvement, both to be published in 2023