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CERTIFICATIONS

Healthcare Leader Coach (HCI) Level 2 – Pyramid Resource Group, June 2024
Leader as Coach, facilitator- Pyramid Resource Group, January 2024
Lean Healthcare Certificate- Belmont University January 2018

PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapters

1. Mazur LM, Marks LB, Das S, McGurk R, Adapa K, Amos A, Gu D, Shultz B, and Chera B. Patient Safety, In Wolters Kluwer Health: 5th Edition of Khan’s Treatment Planning in Radiation Oncology. Chapter 1, pp. 1-25, 2021.

Conference Abstracts (Oral Presentations/Poster)

1. Bret Shultz, Karthik, Meagan Foster, Lukasz Mazur: Leadership walkarounds to support tiered safety huddles at a large healthcare system: Accepted for oral presentation at the Lean Healthcare Academic Conference from Stanford 2021
2. Karthik Adapa, Bret Shultz, Cristie Dangerfield, Erin Burgess, Thomas Ivester, Lukasz Mazur: The effectiveness of the system-level implementation of a tiered huddle system. Accepted as a poster at the Dissemination and Implementation Conference 2021
3. Lukasz Mazur. Bret Shultz, Cristie Dangerfield, Erin Burgess, Thomas Ivester. UNC Journey Towards High Reliability – Tiered Huddle System. IHI Patient Safety Congress, 2021.
4. Shultz, B., Mazur, L., 2023. Using ‘Gemba Walks’ to Support Implementation of Tiered Huddle System. Accepted for oral presentation at The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) annual conference 2023

Magazine Publications

1. Bret Shultz, Cristie Dangerfield, Erin Burgess, Thomas Ivester, Karthik Adapa, Lukasz Mazur. Using Gemba Walks to Support Implementation of Tiered Huddle System – University of North Carolina (UNC) Medical Center Journey Towards High Reliability ISE Magazine, accepted for publication. January 2022.
2. Lukasz Mazur, Bret Shultz, Cristie Dangerfield, Karthik Adapa, Erin Burgess, Thomas Ivester Implementing a tiered huddle system during the COVID-19 pandemic in a large academic healthcare system. ISE Magazine, xxx vol/no. 2022.
3. Foster M, MHA BS, Mazur L Impact of leadership walkarounds on operational, cultural and clinical outcomes: a systematic review BMJ Open Quality 2023;12:e002284. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2023-002284