Paul F. Conlon, Pharm.D., J.D.
Senior Vice President, Clinical Quality and Patient Safety
Trinity Health
Novi, Michigan

As Senior Vice President for Clinical Quality and Patient Safety, Paul Conlon is committed to making sure Trinity Health exceeds quality standards and ensures patient safety throughout its U.S. affiliates.  He is responsible for overseeing clinical quality and patient safety measuring, monitoring and reporting.

Conlon brings to Trinity Health hands-on work as a clinical pharmacist in critical care and infectious disease, plus decades of academic and health care management experience.  As a faculty member of the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy, Conlon teaches clinical pharmacy and has served as a member of the clinical pharmacy renal transplant team.  He held various positions within Mercy Health Services before it merged with Holy Cross Health Care System to become Trinity Health in 2000.  He also served as a health care consultant to General Motors Corporation, led an inpatient pharmacy department, directed pharmacy operations for a large health insurance carrier and directed clinical quality support processes for a large teaching hospital.

Conlon earned a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Michigan, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Detroit and a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Northeastern University in Boston. He lends his expertise to numerous community, state and national clinical quality improvement groups, and has authored numerous articles for trade journals.

He is the Chair of the Michigan Patient Safety Organization; the Co-Chair of the National Quality Forum Medication Management Consensus Steering Committee; and has recently been appointed to the National Quality Forum Consensus Standards Approval Committee.  For his achievements, Conlon was the first recipient of the Michigan Health and Hospital Association Patient Safety and Quality Leadership Award.