Patricia Ann Lee Quigley

Dr. Patricia Ann Lee Quigley Ph.D., M.P.H., A.R.N.P., C.R.R.N., F.A.A.N., F.A.A.N.P., C.N.A. is a Certified Clinical Nurse and Nurse Practitioner expert witness from Tampa, FL. She is a retired Associate Director of the VISN 8 Patient Safety Research Center of Inquiry and is both a Clinical Nurse Specialist and a Nurse Practitioner in Rehabilitation. She has a medical license from the state of Florida and is a Certified Rehabilitation Registered Nurse. She completed her Undergraduate from James Madison College at Harrisonburg, VA. She also earned a bachelor’s degree, Rehab. Counseling and MS in Nursing from University of South Florida at Tampa, FL. She further pursued her PhD in Nursing from University of Florida at Gainesville, FL. She completed a MPH in Epidemiology from University of South Florida. Currently, Quigley works as a nurse practitioner at the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital, VISN 8 (Veterans Integrated Service Network 8 Patient Safety Center of Inquiry) in Tampa, Florida. Dr. Quigley is an Associate Director and Team Leader for Injurious Falls at James A. Haley VA Hospital in Tampa, Fla., where she leads interdisciplinary, prototype falls clinics and programs aimed at developing, testing and promoting interventions and tools to reduce falls and prevent falls-related injuries in vulnerable populations. She serves as patient safety expert for fall and injury reduction to the American Hospital Association, Washington State Hospital Association, Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association, and their Hospital Engagement Networks – now Hospital Improvement Innovation Networks. She also served as fall and fall injury prevention subject matter expert for the 2013 AHRQ National Falls Toolkit and the 2008 and 2013 Institute for Healthcare Improvement Reducing Serious Injurious Falls on Medical Surgical Units. Dr. Quigley serves as a committee member of the NQF Patient Safety Standing Committee and past member of the NQF Patient Safety Complications Steering Committee, nominated by ANA. In addition, Dr. Quigley was the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the USF College of Nursing at its annual Coming Home celebration in February 2013. The NPI Number for Dr. Patricia Ann Lee Quigley is 1871690925. She has numerous publications to her credit.