James P. Bagian - Post-NASA

Post-NASA

Bagian left NASA in 1995. He was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine. Bagian was the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Chief Patient Safety Officer, and Director of the VA National Center for Patient Safety.

Bagian is currently the Director of the Center for Health Engineering in the Department of Anesthesia at the University of Michigan.

Bagian is also a member of the Detroit Science Center's Board of Trustees. Jim Bagian is a physician currently on faculty at the University of Michigan with a joint appointment in the Dept of Anesthesia and the school of engineering. He is married to Tandy Bagian (engineering degree from University of Washington, Seattle) whom he met at NASA where she worked in human factors, working directly with astronauts. She currently works for the EPA in Ann Arbor Michigan. They have 4 children.