JOHNSON DEPRESSION CENTER - Key Persons
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- Member of the Board Affairs Committee
- Steele Street College Consulting / Co - Founder / Independent Education Consultant
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- Co - Director, Office of Professionalism
Aimee Sullivan, PhD is a Senior Instructor and Licensed Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Sullivan earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology with Dr. David J. Miklowitz at the University of Colorado Boulder, and completed her predoctoral clinical internship at UCLA. She specializes in the treatment of bipolar disorder in children, adolescents, and adults, with a particular emphasis on the use of Dr. Miklowitz's Family-Focused Treatment (FFT) for adolescents and adults with bipolar disorder, as well as youth at high risk for bipolar disorder. Dr. Sullivan has provided psycho-educational and clinical trainings regarding the treatment of bipolar disorder to national and international audiences. She has previously received funding through the Caring for Colorado Foundation to support a two-year project aimed at increasing provider access FFT across the state, and has served as lead psychologist in randomized controlled trials investigating the use of FFT in multiple patient populations.
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- Psychiatric Outcomes Following Ketamine Administration for Orthopedic Surgical Anesthesia
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- Business Intelligence Developer
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Director of Education & Community Programs
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- Development of a Novel Curriculum in Motivational Interviewing for Medical Students in an Elective and Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship ( LIC )
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- Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Professionals
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- Development of Evaluation Plan of the Patient Experience of in - Person and Virtual Integrated Behavioral Health Care in Family Medicine
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- Associate Dean, Office of Diversity & Inclusion
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- Admissions Advisor
- Academic Services Senior Professional
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Business Services Professional, Faculty Affairs
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Community Leader
- Member of the Board Affairs Committee
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- Curriculum Manager for Education, Clerkship Curriculum
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- Member of the Board Affairs Committee
- Executive, Raise the Future
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- Clerkship Curriculum Manager, Plains
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- Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Chief Medical Officer, CU Medicine
As the IHQSE Program Manager, Anne directs the Institute's day-to-day operations, oversees its portfolio of programs, and leads impact-reporting efforts. Anne earned her bachelor's degree in Russian Literature from Duke University and a master's in Slavic Languages & Literature from the University of Kansas. She also holds an MBA in Health Administration from the University of Colorado Denver. Prior to joining the IHQSE, Anne oversaw financial operations and the research program at the Ludeman Family Center for Women's Health Research on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Adult Division Administrator
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- Associate Professor and Hospitalist
Anunta Virapongse, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor and hospitalist for the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado Hospital. She completed her medical school training at the University of South Florida College of Medicine, Internal Medicine Residency at Baystate Medical Center in 2006 and earned her Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2007. She has completed extensive coursework in the areas of quality improvement and medical leadership, including a nonclinical fellowship at the Medical Innovation and Leadership Division at Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program at the Greater New York Hospital Association and United Hospital Fund and the MiniATP course at Intermountain Health. Her areas of interest include clinical pathway development and outcomes driven improvement strategies. Dr. Virapongse is the Director of Quality and Patient Safety for the Division of Hospital Medicine, the Associate Vice Chair for Quality for the Department of Medicine, the Chair of the DOM Quality Council, the Director of the IHQSE Clinical Effectiveness and Patient Safety Grant Program for UCH and newly elected At Large Member of the UCH Medical Board.
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- Director of Medical Scientist Training Program
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- Director of Finance and Administration
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- Program Manager for Continuing Medical Education Program
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- Business Operations Team Lead
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- Administrative Assistant for Graduate Medical Education
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- Director of Admissions and Business Operations
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- Data on POCUS to Guide Physician
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- Interim Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education
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- Human Resources Principal Professional
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- Associate Director, Financial & Business Operations
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- Senior Associate Dean for Administration and Finance / Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer
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- Application Developer
- Web Application Developer
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- External Relations Program Manager
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- Member of the OFFICERS Team
- Education Events Committee Chair / Community Leader
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- Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education
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- Assistant Professor Associate Director of Clinical Education - Residential Pathway
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- Director of Communications
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- IT Professional / Compliance Specialist / Compliance and Security
- Team Member
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- Congestive Heart Failure Patient Education
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- Director for Faculty Affairs
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- Administrator for Medical Scientist Training Program
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- Medical Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Psychiatrist
- Adult Division Director for the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Christopher Schneck, MD is a Professor of Psychiatry and the Adult Division Director for the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. In addition, he is the Medical Director of the Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center, the Medical Director of the Bipolar Clinic, and holds the Marsico Endowed Chair for Excellence. Dr. Schneck's primary area of clinical interest is in the treatment of complex mood disorders, both in specialty clinics and integrated care settings. His research for the past 25 years has focused on several aspects of bipolar disorder, including rapid cycling bipolar disorder in adults as well as assessment and management of adolescents with bipolar disorder. Working with Dr. David J. Miklowitz, his most recent research has investigated Family Focused Therapy (FFT) as an early intervention for adolescents at high risk for bipolar disorder. Dr. Schneck spends considerable time teaching residents and has won many awards for his teaching and his clinical care of patients.
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- IT Professional / Information Services
Clint Carlson, MS is Director of Education Technology Innovations in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Clint focuses on creative capacity building found where education, technology, and public health intersect to build the latest tools and workflows around Augmented Reality, Patient Simulation, and digital learning platforms.
If Patrick had a mantra, he might steal the words of artist Clyfford Still: "It's intolerable to be stopped by the frame's edge." He revels in challenging long-held assumptions to facilitate the human(e) potential of individuals and teams. His work cultivating thriving healthcare environments is anchored in a simple, if not easy, principle: start with human relationships. Dr. Kneeland is VP of Medical Affairs at DispatchHealth where he leads AdvancedCare and Extended Care - service lines dedicated to bringing hospital and SNF-level care to patients' homes.
Previously, Patrick served as the Executive Medical Director for Patient and Provider Experience at UCHealth, where he led the development of a system-level interdisciplinary patient and provider experience team and strategic blueprint. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado and a founding faculty member of the University of Colorado's Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Efficiency (IHQSE) where he has been instrumental in the creation of a groundbreaking healthcare leadership development program. After completing training in internal medicine at the University of California-San Francisco, Patrick completed a fellowship in Academic Hospital Medicine where he focused on the transformation of clinical delivery systems and the role of culture in improving patient safety. He is a certified Patient Safety Officer and has advanced training in user-centered design from Stanford's d.school.
In addition to being a practicing hospital medicine physician, he is an experienced leadership coach, speaker, facilitator, system-designer and a zealous destroyer of all of those silos everyone always talks about. He serves on the faculty of several groundbreaking national healthcare leadership movements including the Institute for Healthcare Excellence, the Care Collaboratory, the National Taskforce for Humanity in Healthcare, and the Tulane-Ochsner Leadership Program.
Patrick lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife and two kids where they engage the city, the mountains, and their incredible friends and family with curiosity and wonder.
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- Business Intelligence Reporting Analyst
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- Research Lab and Facilities Liaison - Research Affairs
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- Community Leader
- Member of the Board Affairs Committee
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- Member of the OFFICERS Team
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- Research Director
- IT Research Director / Research and System Administration
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- Web Developer and Content Editor
- Web Developer and Content Manager
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- Associate Professor Section Director of Student Affairs Faculty Residency Director
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Associate Clinic Director, Psychologist
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- Program Manager, System Administration
- System Admin Manager / Research and System Administration
Dr. Tad-y is the Associate Chief Medical Officer of Patient Flow at the University of Colorado Hospital. In this role, she oversees efforts to optimize operational efficiency and ensure patients receive the right care, at the right time, in the right setting. In addition, she is Medical Director for Capacity at UCHealth, guiding the strategy for optimal placement of patients within the system. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (CU) where she is an academic hospitalist. She teaches for the Quality and Safety Educators Academy, authored and co-directs the quality improvement curriculum and annual QI pre-course for the American College of Physicians and is an Assistant Editor for the Joint Commission Journal of Quality and Patient Safety. She serves on the Board for the Society of Hospital Medicine and Prime Health.
Dr. Tad-y's prior leadership roles included Vice President of Clinical Affairs for the Colorado Hospital Association in which she led statewide quality and safety initiatives in Colorado hospitals, oversaw workforce development including physician engagement, hospital emergency preparedness and innovation. She is a faculty member of CU's Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety and Efficiency, and previously served as a director on the Board of Colorado's state health information exchange, Contexture (parent company of CORHIO).
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- Associate Chief Medical Officer at Children 's Hospital Colorado
David Brumbaugh is the Associate Chief Medical Officer at Children's Hospital Colorado, where his primary focus in inpatient operations. He is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Section of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition in the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He was previously the Clinical Medical Director for the Digestive Health Institute at Children's Hospital Colorado. He received his MD degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and completed his pediatrics residency at Children's Hospital Colorado, where he was also Chief Resident in Pediatrics. He was a general pediatrician for three years in the Yakima Valley, WA, before returning to Children's Hospital Colorado for a fellowship in gastroenterology. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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- Community Leader
- Member of the Board Affairs Committee
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- Desktop Support Team Supervisor / Information Services
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- Associate Professor DPT - MPH Dual Degree Director Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Community Engagement Coordinator
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- Business Operations Manager
- Finance
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- Associate Director, Human Resources
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- Business Services Professional and Assistant to the Senior Associate Dean for Education
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- Director of Clinical Skills ( DOCS ) Curriculum
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- Associate Dean of Student Life
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- Assistant Dean for Education, Alpine
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- Assistant Dean for Education, Plains
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- Assistant Dean of Student Affairs
Dr. Janet Kukreja completed her residency training in urologic surgery at the University of Rochester and a urologic oncology fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center prior to being recruited to the University of Colorado. She is passionate about research to improve the quality of care provided to patients, patient decision making and bladder cancer. She has published multiple quality improvement projects and continues to work with the hospital to decrease hospital acquired catheter associated urinary tract infections.
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- Assistant Dean of Admissions & Student Affairs
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- Assistant Dean for Education, Foothills
Dr. Jenny Rodriguez has retired after 32 years of service on the CU PT faculty, including 28 years as director of clinical education, the longest tenure of any DCE in the country. Read more about her extensive career and immeasurable contributions to the program and field of physical therapy education.
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- Director of Health & Society Curriculum
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- Assistant Dean of Student Affairs
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- Assistant Dean of Student Affairs
Dr. Mike Guthrie is Executive-in-Residence at the University of Colorado- Denver campus in the School of Business, Program in Health Administration. He is also an executive coach, focused exclusively on supporting physician executive performance improvement.
He leads learning collaboratives on healthcare issues for health care executive teams, boards of trustees, and physician leader groups in organizations of various types. He is well known as a thought leader regarding physician engagement and physician relationship strategy for hospitals and health systems.
Mike has special experience in the area of physician leadership development; helping physicians, hospital and health systems work effectively together to improve quality, safety, and cost. He is also a strategic business advisor to several healthcare companies.
Mike has been a practicing physician, a medical director, a chief operating officer, a health system CEO, and a senior executive for a large national healthcare alliance.
Dr. Guthrie graduated from Amherst College and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He took his internship in medicine at Denver General Hospital and his residency in consultation psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Masters in Business Administration from the School of Business at the University of Colorado. He is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and was in private practice prior to becoming a physician executive in 1979. He is a past President of the American Academy of Medical Directors and past President of the American College of Physician Executives.
Dr. Guthrie is a frequent speaker for health systems and national organizations on topics including physician leadership, physician organizations, team management, and healthcare strategy. He works frequently with the American College of Physician Executives, the American College of Healthcare Executives, the Health Management Academy, the Society of Hospital Medicine, and Sg2, as well as selected health system clients. He has served on the editorial advisory board for several national healthcare journals and has published over 50 articles on healthcare management and physician leadership topics. He serves on the executive advisory boards for companies that service the healthcare industry sector in information technology, business services, and customer support.
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- Director of Medical Science Curriculum
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- Assistant Dean of Student Affairs
Dr. Sarah Tevis completed her general surgery training at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and a breast surgical oncology fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center prior to being recruited to the University of Colorado. She is passionate about quality improvement and patient centered care and dedicates her research to improving outcomes that are important to patients and shared-decision making as it relates to breast surgery. In her free time, she enjoys camping, hiking, and snowboarding with her family.
Business operations improvement has been Dustin's passion for over 20 years. A proven leader in process and performance improvement, Dustin has led projects and successfully built teams to drive improvement aimed at reducing expenses, increasing revenue and ultimately improving customer and patient satisfaction. Dustin's education and wide variety of business experiences have contributed to successes in healthcare, specifically at Children's Colorado Hospital, where he implemented best practices and improvement tools and methodologies in all operational areas of the hospital.
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- Clinical Science / Schoo Abstract / Schoo Poster / Zoom
Elizabeth Peros - Chairman, Chief Legal Officer
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- Chairman
- Corporate Counsel
- Member of the OFFICERS Team
Emily Gottenborg is an Associate Professor within the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado, with an interest in system redesign, patient safety, and leadership in the healthcare setting. She has received advanced training during a Chief Residency in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the University of California, San Francisco, as well as through Intermountain Healthcare's Advanced Training Program, and the Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Efficiency. Dr. Gottenborg is faculty within the Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety and Efficiency where she is the Director of the Improvement Academy and specializes in coaching frontline clinical teams in improvement work. She also has multiple educational roles within the University School of Medicine and Internal Medicine Residency Program, teaching learners of all levels and across the health professions about principles of medical leadership and quality improvement.
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- System Administrator
- System Administrator / Research and System Administration
Ethan Cumbler is an Internal Medicine and Pediatric trained Hospitalist at the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH). He is a pioneer in the study and practice of inter-professional team-based hospital quality improvement. He created the Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) Service at UCH and is the Medical Director for UCH's ACE unit. This serves as a crucible for testing QI methods for reducing iatrogenic events such as falls or hospital acquired infections using teams of professionals across disciplines. He spearheaded a series of initiatives reducing treatment time for stroke patients recognized by the American Stroke Association. His QI programs for in-hospital stroke and hospital care for the elderly service serve as national models. He heads the National Stroke Association's In-hospital Stroke QI initiative and speaks nationally on how to improve systems of hospital care for stroke patients. He also serves as faculty for the UCLA Leadership and Management in Geriatrics course and his invited lectures on improving care for the hospitalized elderly have been presented at the National American College of Physicians and Society of Hospital Medicine conferences. Within UCH, he chairs the Geriatric Hospital Leadership Committee and has served in many capacities for the Hospital Medicine Division over the years, including work on patient safety and medical error. His educational approach to teaching patient safety is published by the Association of American Medical Colleges and has been utilized by academic medical centers around the world. Ethan has been a recipient of awards at UCH for excellence in leadership, humanism, education, and quality improvement. He received the annual 2012 National Society of Hospital Medicine Award for Team-Based Quality Improvement for his work over 6 years improving response to in-hospital stroke. Ethan seeks to bring a collaborative approach to system change such that physicians are partners with other disciplines, and the hospital, to create a culture which fosters continuous quality improvement.
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- Member of the Board Affairs Committee
- Founding Chair Emeritus / President
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- System Administrator
- System Administrator / Information Services
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- Executive Assistant, Administration & Finance
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- Project Manager in the Department of Psychiatry
Holly Ables, MA is a Project Manager in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She earned her master's in Instructional Design and Adult Learning at the University of Colorado Denver and has has over 17 years of program management and accreditation compliance experience in medical education.
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- Performance of the GI PCR Assay in Hospitalized Adults
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- Academic Services Senior Professional
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- UME Business Intelligence Analyst
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- Associate Dean, Quality and Safety Education
- IHQSE Director
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- Program Manager, UME
- Team Lead
- UME Program Manager
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- UCHealth 's Metro Denver Chief Quality Officer
Jennifer Wiler is UCHealth's Metro Denver Chief Quality Officer. She is a graduate of the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. She is the former Assistant Medical Director at Hahnemann University Hospital and Assistant Clinical Service Chief and Medical Director of Observation Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. She has served in numerous state and national leadership positions and is currently an Alternate of the American Medical Association RBRVS Updates Committee (RUC), Immediate Past-Chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) EM Practice Committee, Alternate Delegate to the AMA House of Delegates for Emergency Medicine, a former Chair of the American Medical Association's Women Physicians Congress, a member of the ACEP Quality and Performance and Reimbursement Committees, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Colorado Medical Society. She has been nationally recognized for her expertise in professional reimbursement, operations, quality, patient safety and health policy and has published widely on the topics.
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- Clerkship Curriculum Manager, Alpine - Summit
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- Assistant Director of Communications
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- Academic Affairs Coordinator
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- Assistant Professor Director of Clinical Education
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- Dean, CU School of Medicine & Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs ( Ex - Officio )
- Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs at CU Denver, and Dean for School of Medicine
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- Business Services Senior Professional
- Student Data Management, Course Set - Up and Oversight, Student Event Coordination, Non - Course Room Scheduling
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- Associate Dean for Administration and Finance
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- Associate Dean for Student Advocacy
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- Member of the Board Affairs Committee
- Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President / RK Industries
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- Director for Child Health Associate Physician Assistant Program
- Program Director / Associate Dean / Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Section Head
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Executive Director, Area Health Education Center
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- Business Services Professional
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- Senior Director, Alumni Relations
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- Assistant Vice Chancellor of Advancement ( Ex - Officio )
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- Associate Dean, Clinical Outreach
Katie Raffel, MD, is an academic hospital medicine provider at the University of Colorado with a passion for diagnostic and systems improvement. She serves as the Medical Director of Acute Care Medicine Services at UC Hospital where she works with teams in quality and safety on five medicine units. Dr. Raffel also serves as a lead of the cross-site Achieving Diagnostic Excellence through Prevention and Teamwork research/improvement collaborative and dedicates remaining time to the Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety and Efficiency, where her focus is on coaching teams through the Certificate Training Program.
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- Program Manager, Accreditation and Compliance
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- Interim Director of Quality and Safety for the Heart Institute at Children 's Hospital Colorado
Kim DiMaria is currently the Interim Director of Quality and Safety for the Heart Institute at Children's Hospital Colorado and an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She received her Nurse Practitioner degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Johns Hopkins University. Kim has been a pediatric critical care nurse and NP in both the Pediatric and Cardiac Intensive Care Units at Children's Hospital Colorado for over fifteen years. As a leader in quality improvement within the Heart Institute, she oversees and supports over a hundred multidisciplinary team members participating in QI projects designed to improve outcomes and processes.
Kim is also the co-director of the Heart Institute Resuscitation Improvement program and has published and lectured extensively on a variety of critical care topics. Her research interests include all things quality improvement, but she is most passionate about resuscitation science, neurodevelopmental outcomes, sedation optimization, reduction of preventable harm, and engaging the clinical teams in advancing outcomes for patients with congenital and acquired heart disease.
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- Academic Services Professional
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- Director Informatics
- Program Director, Informatics
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- Medical Director of Clinical Effectiveness at Children 's Hospital Colorado
Lalit Bajaj currently serves as the Medical Director of Clinical Effectiveness at Children's Hospital Colorado. In addition, he is a Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Bajaj has been an attending physician in the Children's Colorado Emergency Department for 15 years. He received his MD from the University of California, San Francisco in conjunction with a Master's in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996. He then completed a pediatric residency, chief residency, and pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at the University of Colorado/Children's Hospital Colorado. Dr. Bajaj has served as Research Director of the section of Emergency Medicine; as well as the Medical Director in the CHCO Research Institute. In addition, he has also served on many national leadership committees including the Steering Committee of PECARN (Pediatric Applied Care and Research Network), and the AAP Executive Committee of the Section of Emergency Medicine. Most recently, he has joined the Children's Hospital Association steering committee for value based care.
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- Senior Admissions Specialist
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- Senior Instructor Recruitment and Admissions Coordinator
Laura Rosenthal is an Associate Professor and the Assistant Dean of DNP Programs at the University of Colorado, College of Nursing. She has 15-years of experience as an acute care nurse practitioner in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus. In 2011, she completed her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree; a degree created to prepare nurses for a continuously evolving healthcare landscape and to contribute interventions to improve patient safety and quality of care in populations and systems. For the past 8 years, Laura advised DNP students to complete quality improvement projects to advance delivery of care in areas including heart failure, bone marrow transplant, diabetes, osteoporosis, hypertension, and surgical site infections. Her work and the work of her students has been published and presented in the Journal of Nursing Administration, Journal of Nursing Care Quality, the Journal of Healthcare Quality, and the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplant conference. Her main interests include use of quality improvement methods to strengthen the curriculum within the Doctor of Nursing Practice program to expand the excellence and scope of the 50 DNP QI projects completed throughout the country on a yearly basis through the College of Nursing.
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- Patient Service Representative
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- Compensation Program Manager
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- Global Health Track Associate Director
Leana May, DO, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus and the CU of Public Health, as well as a Senior Investigator through the Center for Global Health. Dr. May received her medical degree from Michigan State College of Osteopathic Medicine and her Masters of Public Health from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She completed her pediatric residency at Connecticut Children's Medical Center followed by a pediatric global health service delivery fellowship in partnership with Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital and Partners in Health. Dr. May is the Associate Director of the Global Health Track at the CU School of Medicine and the co-director of the pediatric residency global health track at Children's Hospital Colorado. Dr. May has worked in 9 resource-limited nations, recently living and working half time in Rwanda. Her research has focused on the Rwandan national pediatric oncology protocols, and their delivery, as well as an ongoing low-cost non-electric neonatal biotechnology clinical trial. Dr. May's additional global health scholarly interests include building health care capacity through health system strengthening and non-communicable diseases.
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- Business Services Professional
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- Member of the Board Affairs Committee
- Partner - KPMG
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- Global Health Track Director
Dr. Abdel-Maksoud, MD, PhD, MSPH, is a physician and researcher who completed her medical degree in Egypt from Tanta University School of Medicine, and her PhD degree in Epidemiology from the University of Colorado School of Public Health. She is an Assistant Professor at the Departments of Epidemiology (CU School of Public Health) and Pediatrics (CU School of medicine). She is also the Director of the MPH concentrations in Epidemiology and in Global Health at the Colorado School of Public Health. Prior to obtaining her PhD degree in Epidemiology, Dr. Abdel-Maksoud taught, practiced medicine, and did research in Egypt. After finishing her PhD degree, Dr. Abdel-Maksoud spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow studying the racial/ethnic differences in obesity and its biomarkers. Her work in obesity earned her an award from the prestigious Obesity Society. She is a chronic disease epidemiologist, and her global health work is currently focused on child development projects in Guatemala through the Center for Global Health. She is also investigating the barriers and facilitators of cancer screening among the US Muslim community to develop culturally sensitive interventions to enhance the cancer screening practices of this population.
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- Human Resources Shared Services ( HRSS ) Manager
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- Longitudinal Risk Management for Patients With Increased Risk for Breast Cancer
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- Chief of Staff
- Director of Communications
- Associate Dean of Public Relations, Chief of Staff
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- Deputy Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
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- Desktop Support Team Supervisor / Information Services
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- Patient Access Representative
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- Academic Services Senior Professional
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- Member of the Leadership Team
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- Application Support Administrator / Information Services
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- Director
- Director, IT Shared Services
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Admissions and Finance Coordinator
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- Assistant Director
- Assistant Director, IT Shared Services
Michelle Knees, DO completed internal medicine residency training at the University of Colorado in 2021 with a focus on healthcare systems. She spent an additional year as Chief Resident of Quality and Patient Safety, where she helped lead residency and hospital-wide quality and patient safety initiatives. She now works for the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado as an academic hospitalist. She also works part-time with the IHQSE as faculty for the Improvement Academy, where she helps coach multidisciplinary quality and process improvement projects. She is ultimately working toward becoming a health services researcher with a focus on hospital medicine cognitive load and workforce best-practices.
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- Clinical Services Coordinator
Moksha Patel is an Assistant Professor within the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado. He has a profound interest in systems redesign, clinical informatics, leadership and provider experience. After residency, he completed a fellowship in Quality Improvement and Health Systems Leadership. During this time, he received specialized training in clinical informatics and began his Master of Business Administration. He is currently the Lead Physician Informaticist for the Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Efficiency.
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- Interim Program Director, Student Life
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- Academic Services Professional
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- Executive Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
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- Administrative Assistant for Child Health Associate Physician Assistant Program
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- Director of Informatics and Development
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- Project Manager
- Web Designer
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- Director, Human Resources
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- Executive Assistant to VCHA and Dean Reilly
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- Senior Associate Dean for Research Affairs
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs / Medical Director, Primary Care / UCH HOPD Clinics
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- IT Clinical and Compliance Manager / Compliance and Security
- Manager, Clinical Operations & Compliance
- Team Lead
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- Desktop Support IT Manager / Information Services
- Manager, Desktop Support
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- Desktop Support Technical Lead / Information Services
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- Adult Clinical Psychologist
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- Research Prize ( for Superior Research by a Senior Medical Student )
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- ADHD Education in Medical School
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- Business Services Professional, Clinical Affairs
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Writer and Motivational Speaker
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- Does Pregnancy Lead to the Development of Anti - Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide Antibodies?
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- IT Professional / Information Services
Sandra P. Spencer, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Section of Emergency Medicine at Children's Hospital Colorado and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado. She has a passion for promoting the spread of quality improvement work by mentoring QI leaders through manuscript publication. Dr. Spencer is the Director of the IHQSE Quality Improvement Writing group. Dr. Spencer helped develop this successful publication curricula with quality leaders from Nationwide Children's Hospital, as highlighted in "Writing Group Increases Quality Improvement Writing Competency." She has also provided similar writing lectures to national groups, including the Scholars Programs for both Emergency Medicine Services For Children (EMSC) and Pediatric Pandemic Network (PPN).
Dr. Spencer's other QI interests include making change "stick" through reliability theory, emergency services process and quality improvement, and local and national guideline development. Dr. Spencer is a member of the American Academic of Pediatrics' Council on Quality Improvement and Patient Safety's Executive Committee, where she is the Chair of its Education Subcommittee and Vice Chair of the Committee on Guideline Development.
Finally, Dr. Spencer serves as the Director of Faculty Academic Development for the Children's Hospital Colorado Section of Emergency Medicine, where she specifically supports career development for physician scholars with expertise and interests outside of classic research, including quality improvement, education, and operations.
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Epidemiology, Public & Community Health
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- Nurse Practitioner in Psychiatry
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- Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs Senior Medical Director - Community Practice, CU Medicine
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- System Administrator
- System Administrator / Research and System Administration
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- Senior Associate Dean for Education, Faculty Lead LCME Accreditation
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- Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs / Medical Director - Child Health, CU Medicine
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- Program Coordinator for the IHQSE
Sloan is the Program Coordinator for the IHQSE. She earned her bachelor's degree in Public Health from Texas State University and a master's in Public Health in Health Systems, Management & Policy from the University of Colorado School of Public Health. Prior to joining the IHQSE, Sloan worked for UCHealth as a Patient Access Representative.
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- Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
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- Community Leader
- Member of the Board Affairs Committee
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- Director of Facilities & Planning
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Tyler Anstett, DO, is a hospitalist in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado. He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado where he was an inaugural member of the Hospitalist Training Program Leaders Track and went on to complete a fellowship in Hospital Medicine with a focus on Quality Improvement and Health Systems Leadership. His academic interests lie at the intersection of Quality Improvement, Leadership, and Medical Education across all levels of learners. Accordingly, his leadership roles include Director of the GME/IHQSE Quality and Safety Academy, Director of Quality and Safety Programs for GME, and he is an Associate Vice Chair for Quality for the Department of Medicine. He is an active coach for multiple projects and his own Quality Improvement work is focused on high-value care with a specific focus on simplifying processes and influencing user behavior at the point of care.
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- Director, Director, Alumni Relations & Advancement
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- Bioethics, Humanities, Arts, and Education / Bahrani Abstract / Bahrani Poster / Zoom