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Congratulations to Brittany Cureton, MPH who presented her poster “Improving Cesarean Hemorrhage Through the Use of a Protocolized Checklist; a Quality Improvement Initiative” at the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) during May 2023 in New Orleans. Brittany was a student of CLQS Cohort #7 and was mentored by...

Congratulations to Dr. Claire West, MD for presenting the poster of her IHQI Improvement Scholars project “Expanding Outpatient Access to OUD Treatment in Academic Internal Medicine: A QI Story” at the SGIM conference in Aurora, CO in May. Dr. West was a cohort 8 (2021-2022) IHQI Improvement Scholar. 

Congratulations to Monika Nanda, MBBS, MPH, Professor of Anesthesiology, who shared a QI project as a moderated presentation at the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA Pain Medicine) Annual Spring Meeting in Hollywood, Florida on Friday, April 21. Monika was an IHQI ISP Cohort 8 (2021-2022) who...

Dr. Steve Pantilat is an internationally-recognized expert in Palliative Care and Board Chair for the Palliative Care Quality Collaborative, a national organization dedicated to improving the quality of care for seriously ill people and their families. “When we or our loved ones become seriously ill, many of us don’t know...

The Clinician Leadership in Quality and Safety (CLQS) course provides an opportunity for 4th-year Medical Students and Ph.D. Nursing Students to conduct a Quality Improvement project with a clinical improvement team under the guidance of a faculty mentor. The annual CLQS Symposium will be held virtually this year on Wednesday,...

As part of Patient Safety Awareness Week March 8-14, the Performance Improvement & Patient Safety and Infection Prevention departments recognized individuals who have gone above and beyond in their patient safety efforts. Award recipients were treated to a “thank you” lunch on Tuesday, March 10, noon to 1 pm. Dr. Tom...

The Clinician Leadership in Quality and Safety Scholarly Concentration builds quality improvement and leadership skills of future clinicians. These skills are developed around the science of improving access, cost, effectiveness, equity and safety in patient care. Learning is longitudinal, mentored and experiential. By the end of this one-year program, students...

Please note that the location of our Speaker Series event with Dr. Michelle Schreiber has changed. The new location is Old Clinic Auditorium. It’s not too late to register! We hope to see you on September 11th.

One of the rewarding aspects of IHQI’s work with Improvement Scholars is the ability to keep up with the progress of their initiatives over time. On June 26, 2019, IHQI hosted 3 former Improvement Scholars at a Speaker Series event in Bondurant G-100. Each speaker shared the successes and challenges...