Marty Hatlie is a patient safety advocate with a strong interest in the roles patients and family members play as co-creators of patient safety solutions. He currently serves as Director for Policy & Advocacy for Patient for Patient Safety US (PFPS US). He also is a principal of the Healthcare Patient Partnership Institute.
In 1997 Hatlie coordinated the American Medical Association’s launch of the National Patient Safety Foundation and served as its founding Executive Director from 1997—99. He has since been active in U. S. federal health system transformation work as a consultant on multiple research and demonstration projects funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). He served on the Technical Expert Panel that produced the CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure in 2023. He was Co-PI on the AHRQ project that drafted the Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families (2018) and a consultant in the development of the AHRQ CANDOR (Communication and Optimal Resolution) Toolkit (2016). He currently is on the PFPS US leadership team developing Project PIVOT (Patients Involved in developing Outcomes Together), a PCORI funded initiative focused on prioritizing what patients want to report on experiences of patient safety events, diagnostic safety lapses, and bias.
Hatlie currently serves on the Boards of Directors for PFPS US, Certified Professional inPatient Safety, and Alliance for Integrated Medication Management. He is co-chair of the Leapfrog Group’s Patient and Family Engagement Expert Panel and also serves on advisory boards for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Georgetown University Executive Master’s Program in Clinical Quality, Safety and Leadership, among others.
Hatlie is a graduate of Carleton College and Boston College Law School. He is a member of the Massachusetts and Illinois Bar Associations.