Chairman
Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths

Betsy McCaughey PhD is a patient advocate, health policy expert, and former Lt. Governor of New York State. In 2005, she launched the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (also known as RID), a nationwide educational campaign to stop hospital-acquired infections. RID has made hospital infections a major issue in the United States. Before RID, not one state out of fifty required hospitals to disclose infection rates. Now 37 states do. RID has become synonymous with patient safety and clean care. RID has only one goal, to save lives. Dr. McCaughey’s research is regularly featured on American television. She is the author of more than one hundred articles on health policy, infection, and Medicare that have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and other major publications. Dr. McCaughey earned her PhD at Columbia University, where she also taught. She is a weekly syndicated columnist for the New York Post. Dr. McCaughey serves on the Mount Sinai Lung Cancer Advisory Board and the board of Synexis, a biodefense company.