Dennis Tsilimingras is a Tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences and Department of Emergency Medicine at WSU School of Medicine. He is a physician health services researcher with expertise in patient safety and quality of care. As Principal Investigator he recently completed an R01 patient safety grant that he received funding from the National Institutes of Health to study post-discharge adverse events and their risk factors among NICU neonates. He has also completed as Principal Investigator an R01 patient safety grant that he received federal funding to study the incidence and risk factors of post-discharge adverse events in urban and rural patients of an urban community hospital.