Air Safety Analyst John Nance will Deliver Keynote Address for HSS Leadership in Denver

PRLog (Press Release) - Dec 09, 2009 -
John Nance will delivery the keynote speech at the HSS Leadership Conference on Wednesday, December 9th, at the Radisson Hotel in Denver, Colorado.

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. Nance was chosen for the HSS keynote as a pioneering and well-known 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. In addition to his aviation background, Nance is also a founding board member and is on the executive committee of the National Patient Safety Foundation.

A native Texan who grew up in Dallas, holds a Bachelor's Degree from SMU and a JD from SMU School of Law, John Nance is also 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, and one of the civilian pioneers of Crew Resource Management (CRM).

Nance 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. He flies his own 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.

He is also the nationally-known author of 19 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 13 fiction bestsellers. He is also the author of a major new book for American Healthcare entitled WHY HOSPITALS SHOULD FLY (SecondRiver Healthcare Press, 2009). The book, which is in a fictional format but highly accurate, has won the prestigious “Book of the Year” award for 2009 by the American College of Healthcare Executives.

For more information on the HSS conference or keynote speaker John Nance, contact Sandy Shaw at Convention Connection Speakers Bureau at 800.443.9979, or visit our website at http://www.conventionconnection.net.