Kathleen M. Sutcliffe is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor with appointments in the Carey Business School, the School of Medicine (Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine), the School of Nursing, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. Her research program has been devoted to investigating how organizations and their members cope with uncertainty and how organizations can be designed to be more reliable and resilient. She has investigated organizational safety, high reliability, and resilience practices in oil and gas exploration and

Anna L. Davis is an attorney in the firm of Gordon, Wolf & Carney, CHTD and leads the firm’s Social Security disability benefits practice. She has over 30 years of experience in disability rights, public health law and family law. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Davis held a faculty appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from 2011 - 2021, where her research focused on the ways in which law and policy can reduce health disparities and improve public health outcomes. She was the co-founder of the Clinic for Public