Sean R Townsend, M.D.

Dr. Townsend practices intensive care medicine in CPMC’s Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care. He oversees quality and safety, accreditation, infection control, clinical documentation integrity, quality informatics, AIDS case management, and matrix oversight of risk management at CPMC. He designed and implemented a patient safety alert system to manage sentinel events; created programs to incorporate “lean” management into clinical processes; and championed efforts resulting in an 85% reduction in errors in discharge medication reconciliation at CPMC campuses. Dr. Townsend led the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s work on sepsis to improve outcomes for high-risk and critically ill patients.