VHA National Center for Patient Safety
NCPS Risk Officer Receives National Ethics Award
![David Sine, DrBE, M.A., CSP, ARM, CPHRM David Sine, DrBE, M.A., CSP, ARM, CPHRM](/PATIENTSAFETY/images/SineNCPS480.png)
NCPS Chief Risk Officer David Sine, DrBE, M.A., CSP, ARM, CPHRM
David Sine, DrBE, M.A., CSP, ARM, CPHRM, is the recipient of the 2017 William A. Nelson Award for Excellence in Health Care Ethics from the VA National Center for Ethics in Health Care. Since 2008, Dr. Sine has served as chief risk officer in the Office of Quality, Safety and Value at the VA National Center for Patient Safety in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is recognized nationally as a consultant, scholar and leader in patient safety and quality.
The Nelson Award honors the career-long legacy of William A. Nelson, Ph.D., former chief of the Ethics Education Service in the National Center for Ethics in Health Care, who retired after 30 years of service to VHA in November 2003.Each year, the award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated a long-term commitment to promoting ethical health care practice in VHA, through excellence, dedication and accomplishment in the field of health care ethics (including clinical, organizational and research ethics).