Center Leadership
Erin Curtis
Erin Curtis, BA, MS is the Manager of Education Programs at the Center for Safety and Clinical Excellence. Erin has worked in healthcare for eleven years with eight of those years in healthcare education. In her current role, Erin helps create and develop education programs, including invited conferences, regional education symposiums and webcasts. Erin acts as the liaison between CareFusion and various healthcare industry organizations including the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the National Patient Safety Foundation. Formerly with Hemotherapies, a medical device company, she was the Director of Education and Programs managing preceptorship and clinician training programs.
Dr. Carlos Nunez
Dr. Carlos Nunez is the Chief Medical Officer for CareFusion. In this role, Carlos is responsible for establishing clinical protocols across CareFusion businesses, aligning clinical strategies with business strategies and supporting safety and quality efforts.
Most recently, he served as the chief physician executive for Picis, provding clinical direction for corporate strategy, product development and marketing, as well as sales, implementation and customer relations for global markets.
Prior to Picis, he performed clinical duties as an anesthesiologist, intensivist and hospitalist and served as teh director of Education and Research for the division of Critical Care Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center Northeast in North Carolina.
He holds a doctor of Medicine and completed postgraduate training in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine. He also serves as a diplomate on the American Board of Anesthesiology.
Tim Vanderveen
Tim Vanderveen, PharmD, MS, is Vice President of the Center for Safety and Clinical Excellence. He is responsible for ensuring our commitment to education and innovation to reduce variation in clinical practice, and to supporting hospitals' patient safety initiatives.
Prior to this position, Dr. Vanderveen was the Director of Clinical Affairs, Medication Management Systems, for ALARIS Medical Systems. He has been instrumental in the development of many of the innovations, and safety and performance enhancements in drug infusion. Dr. Vanderveen joined IMED Corporation in 1983. In 1996, IVAC Medical Systems merged with IMED Corporation to form ALARIS Medical Systems.
Dr. Vanderveen served a hospital pharmacy residency at Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo , Michigan . From 1972-1983 he was on the faculty of the College of Pharmacy at Medical University of South Carolina and was Director of the Division of Clinical Pharmacy. He also had a faculty appointment in the College of Medicine and was on staff at the Charleston VA Hospital.
Dr. Vanderveen's clinical practice was in nutritional support, and he co-founded one of the first multi-disciplinary nutrition support teams. During his academic tenure, his research, speaking and publication interests were closely tied to drug therapy in patients receiving parenteral and enteral nutrition.
Dr. Vanderveen received his BS and MS degrees from Purdue University School of Pharmacy and his PharmD degree from the Medical University of South Carolina.