Della M. Lin, MS, MD, FASA

Della Lin, MS, MD, FASA is an inaugural National Patient Safety Foundation/Health Forums Patient Safety Leadership Fellow (2002). She is faculty and fellow with the Institute for Health Care Improvement (IHI), is a Global Salzburg Fellow and holds an Associate Faculty appointment with Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  Lin also holds an appointment with the John A. Burns School of Medicine in Honolulu, Hawaii and has previously been Visiting Faculty with the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality and a longstanding Senior Fellow in Patient Safety Leadership with the Estes Park Institute.

Lin facilitates multi-stakeholder groups to challenge and better the status quo of patient care systems through shared goals of improving safety culture, effective leadership and building sustainable solutions from the ground level. In that work, she has been part of the  national AHRQ team implementing Improving Surgical Care and Recovery (ISCR) and leads her state’s Hawaii Safer Care collaborative. She is noted for her speaking through an engaging balance of science and storytelling.

Lin continues an active practice in anesthesiology in Hawaii, receiving her training from the University of California, San Diego.