Erick Ridout, M.D. is blessed to be the dad to two amazing kids, granddaddy to three extraordinary grandsons and two granddaughters, and currently serves the babies, their families, and the caregivers in the Newborn ICU in Southwestern Utah, Newborn ICU in Honolulu, Hawaii, and as Vermont Oxford Network Faculty. Additionally, Colonel Ridout proudly served in the United States Army for 23 years, including 11 years as the State Surgeon, Nevada Army National Guard. He was among the first Army Medical Corps Officers to become a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and has applied the learned principles in relentlessly eliminating patient, staff, and organizational harm in all of its forms. He has lectured Nationwide on Just Culture, Harm Reduction, Value Added Care, and Servant Leadership. He passionately believes all patients and care givers deserve to experience care delivery free of harm. To that end, he seeks to influence  MEDICINE to embrace the principles of servant leadership and team-based family-centered care, to send all members of the care team home each day feeling Safe, Valued and Loved  returning to the bedside fully engaged with heart and mind all the while seeking to only do for the patient and never to the patient.