health care quality & safety faculty

Name

Position

Primary Appointments

Relevant Interests/Roles

Elmer Abbo MD, JD

Instructor

Medicine (GIM)

Improving the delivery of palliative care with an emphasis on reducing disparities in palliative care.  Medical legal issues of the interaction between patient safety and risk management

Vineet Arora MD, MS

Instructor

Medicine (GIM)

The effects of medical education interventions on quality of care in the hospital setting, with a particular interest in the areas of medical professionalism.  Measuring the quality of care for hospitalized vulnerable elders.

Kim Carli

Manager of Patient and Family Satisfaction

University of Chicago Hospitals (UCH)

Assessing quality through patient and family satisfaction reports.

Marshall Chin MD, MPH

Associate Professor

Medicine (GIM)

Factors that affect quality of care in chronic medical illnesses with a particular emphasis on congestive heart failure and diabetes.

Christopher Clardy, MD

Associate Professor

Pediatrics

Physician Director of UCH Center for Quality.

Richard Cook, MD

Associate Professor

Anesthesia and Critical Care

Study of human error and the role of technology in human expert performance and patient safety.  Member, Board of National Patient Safety Foundation.

Krista Currell, RN, JD

Director, Patient Safety, UCH

University of Chicago Hospitals (UCH)

Director, Patient Safety

Andy Davis, MD, MPH

Assistant professor

Medicine (GIM)

Assessing and improving the quality of care in chronic diseases, particularly diabetes.

Nicole DeHoratius

Assistant Professor

Operations Management, Graduate School of Business

Empirical research on issues relevant to the effective management of supply chains, particularly drug dispensing supply chains and the role of dispensing as a contributor to poor process quality.

Daniel S. Gaylin, MPA

Director, NORC Health Survey, Program and Policy Research

NORC

Co-Director of National HITRC, he previously served as senior advisor for research & planning, Office of Health Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning & Evaluation, U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services.

Harvey Golomb, MD

Chairman of Medicine

Medicine (Hem/Onc)

Chairman of Medicine

June Gradman, RN

General Medicine Nursing Director

University of Chicago Hospitals (UCH)

Nursing director for general medicine care center.

Elbert Huang MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Medicine (GIM)

Improving the care of primary care practice with a particular emphasis on improving quality decision-making and patient provider communication.

Ken Kates

Chief operating officer, UCH

University of Chicago Hospitals (UCH)

Responsible for clinical and systems operations within UCH

Debra Krause

Director, Center for Quality

University of Chicago Hospitals (UCH)

Director, Center for Quality

David Lovinger, MD

Instructor

Medicine (GIM)

Using medical informatics tools to affect health care quality and provider to provider communication

Willard Manning PhD

Professor

Health Studies, Public Policy

Measurement of health care costs; effects of heath insurance and utilization review on costs and process quality of care.  A member of the IOM.

Jeanelle Mansur, PhD

Director of Pharmacy, Electronic Medical Record Project

University of Chicago Hospitals (UCH)

Responsible for pharmacy related efforts in EMR replacement.  Key role in embedded clinical decision support for pharmacy related issues.

David Meltzer MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Medicine, Economics, Public Policy

Effect of physician specialization, particularly hospitalists, on the quality of care in the inpatient setting.  Measuring and affecting the quality of vulnerable elders in the inpatient setting.

Julie Mohr, PhD

Assistant professor

Medicine (GIM)

The evaluation of microsystems in affecting health care quality and patient safety. 

Jamie O’Malley, RN

Vice-President of Nursing

University of Chicago Hospitals (UCH)

Oversees all nursing based quality and safety improvement projects.

Mike Riordan, MA

President & CEO

 University Hospitals and Health System          

University of Chicago Hospitals (UCH)

Previously the COO of  Emory and Crawford Long Hospitals, comes from a systems improvement and operations background

Greg Sachs, MD

Professor

Chief, Section of Geriatrics

Clinical interests include primary care geriatrics while research focuses on ethical issues in dementia, research ethics, and end-of-life care

Judy Schuler

Director, UCH Academy

University of Chicago Hospitals (UCH)

A specialist in delivering educational content throughout the institution, as well as to external sites. The learning opportunities offered by the UCH Academy are directly aligned with the business needs of the organization.

Jonathan Silverstein, MD, MS, FACS

Assistant Professor

Surgery

Director of Center for Clinical Information.  Oversees interaction of clinical and technical side of EMR replacement.  Key decision maker in process of clinical decision support implementation.

Stephen  Small, MD

Assistant Professor

Anesthesia and Critical Care

Patient safety research with an emphasis on reducing errors through simulation.

Michael S. Tilkin

Chief Information Officer, NORC

NORC

Co-Director of National HITRC, he served as a national practice director for e-business intelligence at FutureNext and previously completed all course work for a PhD in economics at the Univ of Wisc.

Chad Whelan MD

Assistant Professor

Medicine (GIM)

Using medical informatics, particularly embedded clinical knowledge tools, to improve decision-making.  Measuring and affecting quality of inpatient care, with an emphasis on inpatient prevention and pain management.

Eric Yablonka

Chief Information Officer, UCH

University of Chicago Hospitals (UCH)

Directly responsible for implementation of new EMR in which patient safety is one of key measures of success.