Trey Coffey
Trey Coffey is a practicing hospitalist and quality and safety leader based at SickKids in Toronto. After training at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and Seattle Children’s Hospital, Trey joined the SickKids Division of Paediatric Medicine in 2005. She has led and contributed to research in the epidemiology of hospital adverse events, disclosure, handoff, high reliability, and health equity. A graduate of the inaugural class of the University of Toronto Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQUIPS) in 2009, Trey served as Associate Director of CQUIPS from 2012-2017. From 2012-2022 Trey served as Medical Safety Officer at SickKids where she initiated the implementation of the transformational Caring Safely program. From 2017-2022, Trey was the Associate Clinical Director of Children’s Hospitals Solutions for Patient Safety, serving as one of a four-member executive team leading a network of 140 children’s hospitals across the US and Canada collaborating to eliminate preventable patient and employee harm. Trey’s leadership in quality and safety have garnered several individual and group awards. In 2023 Trey assumed the role of Associate Chief Medical Officer for Medical Affairs and Quality at SickKids.