Peter is a global thought leader, informing US and global health policy. He is world-renowned as a patient safety champion, critical care physician, and a prolific researcher, publishing over 800 peer review publications. According to Atul Gawande in The New Yorker, Pronovost’s “work has already saved more lives than that of any laboratory scientist in the past decade.” In 2008 Time Magazine named Pronovost one of the 100 most influential people in the world. That same year, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.