Katie McKinley, MHA, is a Patient Safety and Risk Management professional with eight years of experience, currently serving as the Senior Clinical Risk Services Manager at HSC Health. She spearheaded the implementation of HSC Health's Patient Safety Evaluation System and ambulatory adverse event reporting system, Riskonnect. She works with team members to enhance patient and employee safety, and drive patient safety initiatives and process improvement projects at HSC Health that positively impact patient care and workplace culture.

Katie earned a Bachelor of Arts in Biology with minors in Chemistry and Spanish from the University of North Texas (UNT) in 2016. She then went on to complete her Master of Health Administration at the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) College of Public Health in 2019.