| John Nance |
 John Nance is a well-known
international advocate of crew resource management and expanded
human performance training and a dynamic professional
speaker/consultant, presenting pivotal programs on Teamwork,
Risk Management, Motivation, Coping with Competition, and
other topics. He speaks to a wide variety of audiences,
including medical and pharmaceutical professionals, CEO’s
of major business-oriented corporations, and environmental,
aviation, and travel-oriented groups. A keynote speaker with an entertaining,
highly motivational, and informative style.
John Nance has also been a dynamic and deeply dedicated member of the medical community for nearly two decades. John Nance brings a rich diversity of professional training and background to the quest of patient safety and medical practice improvement. His new book, Why Hospitals Should Fly: The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care (Second River Healthcare Press 2008), is reinventing the cultural foundations of healthcare and bringing clarity to the decade-long patient safety and quality care debate. One of the founding members of the National Patient Safety Foundation, John was a member of the Executive Committee and served on the Foundation’s board for 9 years. More important to his leading-edge role in healthcare, John Nance was one of the pioneers of the pivotal safety revolution in professional communication, teamwork, and leadership known in aviation as CRM (crew resource management). His book about safety in human systems entitled BLIND TRUST, published internationally in 1986, is widely credited with helping to spark not only the universal acceptance of CRM principles in aviation, but the earliest infusion of culture-changing lessons derived from aviation into medical practice. BLIND TRUST was pivotal in illuminating serious public issues in aviation safety for the American public, and WHY HOSPITALS SHOULD FLY follows in that tradition as a major wakeup call. John has become a trusted and internationally recognized broadcast analyst and advocate for both medical/patient safety and aviation safety. Before joining ABC World News and Good Morning America in 1994, he had logged countless appearances on national shows such as Oprah, the PBS News Hour, Today, CNN, as well as most Canadian and English-speaking networks worldwide. In addition, his editorials have been published in newspapers nationwide, inclusive of the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. John J. Nance is also the internationally-known author of 18 major books, (five non-fiction, 13 fiction), his latest fictional thriller being Orbit (Simon and Schuster) which released to rave reviews in March of 2006 and is in development by Fox 2000 studios as a major motion picture. Two other of his books, Pandora’s Clock and Medusa’s Child, were both made into major, successful two-part mini-series for NBC and ABC respectively, and still air periodically around the world. With most of his busy schedule of consulting and speaking dedicated to the urgency of improving healthcare from patient safety to practice satisfaction, John has also emerged as one of the leading thinkers on matters of major change to America 's healthcare system. A dynamic and vocal advocate of completely removing the tort system from involvement in routine medical accidents and mistakes, he recently convened and hosted an unprecedented conference on the subject with the sponsorship of AHRQ, a conference of doctors and lawyers that spawned several very surprising and important realizations. Already one of the nation’s most dynamic and energizing professional speakers, John J. Nance’s messages to medical practitioners have reached new heights of relevance and importance as seen in his presentations to such pace-setting entities as the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and a who’s who of healthcare organizations. John’s unique ability to reach every member of the healthcare community comes from his unprecedented background mix of law, safety, aviation and even broadcasting. Physicians in particular resonate deeply with his powerful messages about leadership and the human propensity for mistakes even among the most tenured professionals, and his extensive experience working with hospitals and clinics nationwide has been documented by continuous client praise and the highest effectiveness ratings. Nance, a native Texan who grew up in Dallas, holds a Bachelor's Degree from SMU and a Juris Doctor from SMU School of Law, and is a licensed attorney. Named Distinguished Alumni of SMU for 2002, he is also a decorated Air Force pilot veteran of Vietnam and Operations Desert Storm/Desert Shield and a Lt. Colonel in the USAF Reserve, well known for his involvement in Air Force human factors flight safety education. John has piloted a wide variety of jet aircraft, including most of Boeing's line and the Air Force C-141, and has logged over 13,000 hours of flight time in his commercial airline and Air Force careers. John flies his own turbine aircraft, was a veteran Boeing 737 Captain for Alaska Airlines, and is an internationally recognized air safety analyst and advocate, best known to North American television audiences as Aviation Analyst for ABC World News and Aviation Editor for Good Morning America. John is the nationally-known author of 17 major books, five non-fiction: Splash of Colors, Blind Trust, On Shaky Ground, and What Goes Up, (all published by William Morrow), and Golden Boy (Eakin Press, 2003); plus 12 fiction bestsellers: Final Approach (Crown, 1990) NTSB investigator Joe Wallingford faces his own personal crises as he works through conflicts and cover-ups to arrive at the true cause of an airline disaster); Scorpion Strike (Crown, 1992) A military techno-thriller set after the first Gulf War); Phoenix Rising (Crown, 1994) A gripping novel of international airline finance and treachery); Pandora's Clock (Doubleday, 1995) A major New York Times Bestseller about a race against time with a doomsday virus threatening the world.; Medusa's Child (Doubleday, 1997) An edge-of-your-seat thriller about five people trapped aboard a cargo jet loaded with a ticking nuclear bomb which could destroy all the computers in North America.; The Last Hostage (Doubleday, 1998) An aggrieved father/airline captain hijacks his own airliner to force prosecution of the man he thinks killed his daughter, and rookie FBI negotiator Kat Bronsky has to try to talk him down to save over 130 lives - including her own.; Blackout (Putnam, 2000) FBI Special Agent Kat Bronsky is back and fighting for her life and the lives of seven survivors of a terrorist-caused accident; Headwind (Putnam, 2001) A real-life version of the Pinochet extradition case targeting a beloved ex-President of the U.S.; Turbulence (Putnam, 2002) Disgusted passengers of a poorly run airline stage an airborne revolt at the wrong moment); Skyhook (Putnam, 2003) A "Black" Air Force project is threatened by sabotage as an airline captain fights to regain his license and discover what knocked his private airplane out of the sky over the Gulf of Alaska.; Fire Flight (Simon & Schuster, 2003) Two national parks are burning, but the aircraft needed to douse the fires are falling apart, and veteran pilot Clark Maxwell is faced with trying to find out why, and who's cheating, before more deaths occur.; Saving Cascadia (Simon & Schuster, 2005) As the Northwest corridor implodes in the aftermath of a devastating series of earthquakes, and a tsunami of near-apocalyptic proportions approaches, so begins the quest to rescue hundreds of stranded vacationers and islanders. Pandora's Clock and Medusa's Child both aired as major, successful two-part mini-series on television. John J. Nance is one of America's most dynamic professional speakers, presenting entertaining and pivotal programs on teamwork, risk management, motivation, coping with competition, and other topics to a wide variety of audiences, including business corporations and healthcare professionals. He is a pace-setting and well-known international advocate of using the lessons from the recent revolution in aviation safety to equally revolutionize the patient safety performance of hospitals, doctors, nurses, and all of healthcare. John is a founding board member and is on the executive committee of the National Patient Safety Foundation. He lives in Tacoma, Washington.
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