Bill Clinton, Biden to speak at Irvine conference

Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton top the list of speakers scheduled for the Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit on Friday and Saturday at Hotel Irvine.

Clinton will deliver the keynote address on Friday and Biden will do the same on Saturday.

Other featured speakers include Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa), U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.).

The third annual conference, presented by the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, will gather leaders from the “provider, patient, medical technology, employer and public policy communities to develop actionable solutions to address patient-safety challenges,” with the goal of eliminating preventable patient deaths by 2020, according to a news release.

Registration for the event is closed. For more information, visit patientsafetymovement.org.

—Rob Vardon