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FINAL PROGRAM the Meeting for Leaders in Medical Quality! FINAL PROGRAM The Meeting for Leaders in Medical Quality! The Annual Meeting of the American College of Medical Quality Together, We Will ME DIC AL QUALITY MARCH 26-28 Hotel Monaco, Alexandria, VA This Live Activity has been approved for 22.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM JOINT PROVIDERSHIP OF: ACMQ.ORG ME DIC AL QUALITY Together, We Will MARCH 26-28 Dear Colleague, March 2015 Over the past 42 years, the American College of Medical Quality has hosted OFFICERS, TRUSTEES, unique and pioneering educational events designed to deliver focused content AMA LIAISONS on the implementation and innovation of quality based medicine. Access to this targeted and specialty spanning education is a key feature of membership President: for you and the entire quality team! To this end, we are excited that you have James Cross, MD, FACMQ chosen to join us this year. President-elect: Prathibha Varkey, MD, MPH, MBA Medical Quality 2015, Together, We Will, promises three exciting days of thought provoking speakers and sessions from the best and brightest in Vice President: Mark Lyles, MD, MBA, FACMQ our field. Highlights include: two pre-conference workshops, one on the fundamentals of quality improvement, and the other on advanced techniques; Secretary: an opening session on the Politics of Quality; expanded oral presentation Donald E. Casey, Jr., MD, MPH, MBA, DFACMQ sessions drawn from accepted abstracts and the Gala Dinner Friday night, Treasurer: featuring a Keynote Presentation from National Quality Forum President and John Vigorita, MD, MHA, DFACMQ CEO, Christine Cassel, MD. All proceeds from the dinner support the ACMQ Immediate Past President: Quality Scholars Program. Alan Krumholz, MD, DFACMQ Throughout the conference, our expert faculty will share their experience and Trustees: Paul K. Bronston, MD, DFACMQ insights on the latest advances in Medical Quality, allowing you to implement Chair, Ethics and Professional Policy the most current initiatives when you return home. Welcome back to the Committee Hotel Monaco. Our 2014 conference was a big success at this venue, and we look forward to a repeat in 2015. Clair Callan, MD, MBA AMA Delegate Additionally, I am pleased to announce that through our joint provider, Beverly A. Collins, MD, MBA, DFACMQ Community Health Network, you will be eligible to earn up to 22.5 AMA PRA Chair, Education Committee TM Category 1 Credit(s) . Henry Johnson, MD, MPH Chair, Scientific Program Committee Welcome! Nimisha Kalia-Satwah, MD, MPH, MBA Alternative AMA Delegate Peter C. Lee, MD, MPH Chair, Young Professional Committee Heidi Nicewarner, MD James Cross, MD, FACMQ Henry Johnson, MD, MPH Student/Resident Section Adviser President Chair, Scientific Program Committee Martin Wegman Student/Resident Section Chair 2015 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jessica White, MD, FACMQ Chair, Marketing Committee James Cross, MD, FACMQ (Meeting Chair) Cindy Lee, MD Henry Johnson, MD, MPH Claudio Loffreda-Mancinelli, MD, MMM Claudio Loffreda-Mancinelli, MD, MMM (Scientific Committee Chair) Mark Lyles, MD, MBA, FACMQ Chair, Membership Committee Paul Nagy, PhD David Nash, MD, MBA, FACMQ (Scientific Committee Co-Chair) Raj Ratwani, PhD Past President: Julia Caldwell, MD Arlene Seid, MD, MPH Donald E. Fetterolf, MD, MBA, DFACMQ Angelo Caprio, MD, PhD, MMM, FACMQ Sallie Weaver, PhD Christina Cifra, MD Dan Westphal, MD, MBA Executive Director: Umesh Dyamenahalli, MD Carol Wratten, MD Andrew Jerdonek Linda Efferen, MD Valerie Brown, CPS (CME Coordinator) Jason Hall, JD Andrew Jerdonek (Executive Director) Howard Kerpen, MD MEDICAL QUALITY 2015 2 ALEXANDRIA, VA Conference Faculty Richard Boiardo, MD David Classen, MD, MS Don Fetterolf, MD, MBA, DFACMQ Cross County Orthopaedics, Pascal Metrics, MiMedx, ME DIC AL QUALITY West Orange, NJ Washington, D.C. Pittsburgh, PA Mary Calabrese, RN, MSN Karen Clayton, MBA, CPHQ Fran Ganz-Lord, MD MedStar Health, Johns Hopkins Home Care Group, NSHS, Washington, D.C. Baltimore, MD Great Neck, NY Julia Caldwell, MD Beverly A. Collins, MD, MBA, Lisa Grabert, MPH Penn State University, DFACMQ US House of Representatives ME DIC AL QUALITY Hershey, PA WellCare Health Plans, Staff, Newark, NJ Washington, D.C. James Cross, MD, FACMQ Zach Hettinger, MD, MS Angelo Caprio, MD, PhD, Aetna, MedStar Health, MMM, FACMQ Hartford, CT Washington, D.C Carepoint, Hoboken, NJ Donald E. Casey, Jr., MD, MPH, Nancy Davis, PhD Gail Horvath, MSN, RN, CNOR, MBA, DFACMQ The University of Kansas, CRCST Alvarez & Marsal, Lawrence, KS ECRI Institute, Chicago, IL Plymouth Meeting, PA Christine Cassel, MD Dennis R. Delisle, ScD, MHSA Henry Johnson, MD, MPH National Quality Forum, Thomas Jefferson University, Henry Johnson Healthcare Washington, D.C. Philadelphia, PA Consulting, LLC., Tuscon, AZ Christina Cifra, MD Scott Ellner, DO, MPH Katherine J. Jones, PT, PhD University of Iowa, St. Francis Hospital, University of Nebraska, Iowa City, IA Hartford, CT Omaha, NE Pamela F. Cipriano, PhD, RN, Beth Feldpush, DrPH Jennifer Kadis, MSN, RN NEA-BC, FAAN America’s Essential Hospitals, Memorial Hospital Pembroke, American Nurses Association, Washington, D.C. Pembroke Pines, FL Silver Spring, MD MEDICAL QUALITY 2015 3 ALEXANDRIA, VA Conference Faculty Nimisha Kalia, MD, MPH, MBA Paul Nagy, PhD Michael Rosen, PhD New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University, New York, NY Baltimore, MD Baltimore, MD Howard Kerpen, MD Nathan Neufeld, DO Danielle Scheurer, MD, MSCR NS-LIJ Health System, Cancer Treatment Centers Medical University of South New Hyde Park, NY of America, Carolina, Newnan, GA Charleston, SC Alan Krumholz, MD, DFACMQ Scott Oxenhandler, MD Arlene Seid, MD, MPH Hilton Head, NC Memorial Hospital Pembroke, PA Dept. of Health, Pembroke Pines, FL Harrisburg, PA Carole Lannon, MD, MPH Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD Prathibha Varkey, MD, MPH, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medicine, MHPE, MBA Cincinnati, OH Baltimore, MD Seton Healthcare Family, Austin, TX Cindy Lee, MD Raj Ratwani, PhD John Vigorita, MD, MHA, University of California, MedStar Health, DFACMQ San Francisco, CA Washington, D.C. Optimus Healthcare Partners, LLC Summit, New Jersey Peter Lee, MD, MPH Joy Rivera, PhD Sallie Weaver, PhD General Electric, Children’s Hospital of Johns Hopkins University Fairfield, CT Wisconsin, Baltimore, MD Appleton, WI Lisa Lubomski, PhD Meika Roberson, MD, MS Dan Westphal, MD, MBA Johns Hopkins University, Carepoint Hoboken University Memorial Hospital Pembroke, Baltimore, MD Medical Center, ME DIC AL QUALITY Pembroke Pines, FL Hoboken, NJ Mark Lyles, MD, MBA, FACMQ Ray Robinson, MD, MPH, MBA Elizabeth Wick, MD Medical University of South Philips Healthcare, Johns Hopkins University, Carolina, Baltimore, MD Baltimore, MD Charleston, SC MEDICAL QUALITY 2015 4 ALEXANDRIA, VA Conference Faculty Meeting Goals & Policies LEARNING OBJECTIVES: At the conclusion of this conference attendees should be able to: 1. Recognize the obstacles, expectations 8. Describe the benefits of Patient Safety 13. Identify the difficulties, and solutions, and requirements for a career path in Organizations and how Common Formats in/to maintain(ing) consistency across quality. can help to make facilities safer. multi-site collaborative safety systems. 2. Implement specific principles and skills 9. Describe that membership in one 14. Describe general human factors principles to increase effectiveness in personal or more PSOs will be a CMS/ACA and how to apply these principles to and professional development. requirement as of 2017 for hospitals healthcare safety and quality. with more than 50 beds that contract 3. Describe actions taken to create and 15. Implement human factors principals on with Qualified Health Plans under the implement a community collaboration teamwork and team processes. ACA. team. 16. Outline the challenges with health IT 10. Define and describe implementation 4. Implement tactics to enhance usability, steps for improving health science and knowledge translation, cooperation among competitive parties, IT usability, and specific high risk realizing their importance in bringing maintain high levels of involvement and components of health IT usability. evidence-based medicine into practice achieve small-group goals. for quality healthcare. 17. Describe basic adult teaching 5. Apply lessons learned from other techniques. 11. Recognize how to incorporate a countries’ P4P program to current multidisciplinary team structure in 18. Implement the principals of Just Culture quality measures. translating evidence into practice in their organization. 6. Identify what outcomes specific quality through case studies of successful team 19. Interpret the changing political, economic, measures are designed to improve. implementation projects. and regulatory healthcare environment 7. Explain key elements necessary for an 12. Identify ways to support and strengthen to continue appropriate and viable ambulatory quality program and how these multidisciplinary efforts to application of high quality medical care. that differs from inpatient programs. improve care through evidence and knowledge translation. ACCREDITATION: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) through the joint providership of Community Health Network and the American College of Medical Quality. Community Health Network is accredited by ISMA to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Community Health Network designates this live
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