FARLEY HEALTH POLICY CENTER - Key Persons
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- Co - Director, Office of Professionalism
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- Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Dr. Hendrickse has a long history of interest and work enhancing the field of anesthesiology and global health. Originally from England, and an officer in the British Royal Army, Dr. Hendrickse saw first hand the great need for improvements in anesthesia delivery in the developing world. Since joining the Faculty at the University of Colorado, Dr. Hendrickse has played an active role in developing curriculums to improve resident education in the areas of Regional and Transplant Anesthesia. He is an active member of the Society for Education in Anesthesia- Health Volunteers Overseas (SEA-HVO) program and is founding member of the Board of Directors for CU Global Anesthesia.
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- Business Intelligence Developer
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- Education Program Manager
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- Program Coordinator
- Lead AA Program Coordinator
- Lead Program Coordinator
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Curriculum Manager for Education, Clerkship Curriculum
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- Program Director
- CAA, Program Director
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- Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs
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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- 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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- Liver Transplant Fellowship Program Director
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- Administrative Assistant for Graduate Medical Education
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Residency Program Director
- CRASH Co - Director
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- Human Resources Technician
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- Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education
- CRASH Conference Director
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- Human Resources Professional
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- Information Technology Manager
- Manager / Information Services
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- Senior Associate Dean for Administration and Finance / Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer
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- Web Application Developer
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- Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education
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- Global Health Track Coordinator
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- Communication Associate Director
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- Director for Faculty Affairs
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- CRASH Course Coordinator
- Education Administration
- Lead Event Coordinator
- Lead Events & Communications Coordinator
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- Associate Dean, Clinical Affairs
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- Specialist for Division and Inclusion and BA / BS - MD Program
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- Neuroanesthesia Fellowship Associate Program Director / Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
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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- Obstetric Fellowship Program Director
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- Director of Research Information Services
- IT Research Director / Research and System Administration
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- System Administrator / Research and System Administration
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- Associate Chief Medical Officer at Children 's Hospital Colorado
- MSCS
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.
David's expertise lies in the intersection of social innovation, public policy, communications and IT, finance, and related fields on U.S. and global health. He is especially expert in the understanding and designing of the new complex coalitions and systems required for innovation and systemic transformation. As faculty member in the CU Department of Family Medicine, he is focused on the design of systems to help challenged communities thrive. He assists with new initiatives to address gross health disparities to transform the wellbeing of targeted communities in the Denver metropolitan region on behalf of the university and its partners. He has extensive experience with business and non-profit start-ups. As chief counsel and staff director, he led the staff of the U.S. House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee during the advent of competition in telecommunications, the break-up of AT&T, the emergency of the cable television industry, and the introduction of electronic and competitive securities trading. He has managed and was a founding owner of radio and satellite companies, and represented a wide-range of information, communications, health, finance and other clients and causes. David has a BA in government from Dartmouth College and a JD with high honors from George Washington University Law School where he was a member of the law review.
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- Team Lead / Information Services
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- Pediatric Fellowship Program Director
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- Business Services Professional and Assistant to the Senior Associate Dean for Education and Associate Dean for Integrated Curriculum
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- Assistant Dean for Student Affairs
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- Assistant Dean, Essentials Core Curriculum
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- Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
As a permanent member of the oversight committee, and residency Program Director, Dr. Oliva will be participating in resident selection and financial oversight. He will likewise assist in resident education and post-travel implementation of presentations.
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- Associate Dean of Student Life
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- Assistant Dean for Education, Alpine
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- Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Dr. Simmons developed his passion for Global Health during a service trip to Mexico as an undergraduate student. During medical school Dr. Simmons was able to continue developing his interest by working with Cuban refugees that were relocated in Kansas City, Missouri and volunteering at local free health clinics. As well, he took part in multiple health care service trips to Honduras and Peru. During residency training he continued his service and was recognized by the ASA as the 2016 recipient of the ASA Resident Humanitarian Service Award. As well, he was awarded a scholarship by the ASA Global Humanitarian Outreach Committee to spend one month at CURE Children's Hospital Uganda. Dr. Simmons will serve as Director of the CU Global Anesthesia Program and oversee all day-to-day operations and research interests devoted to the program. Please feel comfortable contacting Dr. Simmons by email if you have any questions regarding this new and exciting program and opportunity.
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- Assistant Dean for Education, Plains
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 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 for Student Affairs
- Co - Director, Office of Professionalism
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- Assistant Dean of Admissions
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- Assistant Dean for Education, Foothills
- Assistant Dean, Clinical Core Curriculum
Dr. Jessica Kenny, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry within the Colorado School of Medicine and an integrated psychologist at Children's Hospital Colorado. Her area of expertise is integrated behavioral health for youth and families in primary care and other medical specialties. She is committed to increasing access to behavioral health for underserved populations, addressing health inequity, and providing trauma-informed, culturally-sensitive care. Her current research involves factors related to addressing adolescent depression and suicidality in pediatric primary care. She is also involved with training, supervision, and teaching for psychology and medical trainees, program development and outcomes evaluation, and systems-level advocacy.
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- Assistant Professor at the CU Department of Family Medicine
Dr. Kyle Leggott is assistant professor at the CU Department of Family Medicine and family physician with health politics experience whose expertise includes policy development and translation, the intersection of policy with state-based health care legislation, and innovative approaches to addressing healthcare reform. He seeks progressive and innovative approaches to address health inequities by promoting systems based and policy level interventions. Dr. Leggott is an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Colorado, where he recently finished a fellowship in health policy and politics. Dr. Leggott serves as a board member for the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians and is a physician blogger for the American Academy of Family Physician's Fresh Perspective blog. He provides both outpatient and inpatient care to patients, and, teaches family medicine residents at the University of Colorado.
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- Associate Professor
- Farley Center Staff Member
- State Policy Director
Dr. Lauren S. Hughes is an associate professor of family medicine and the State Policy Director of the Farley Health Policy Center. Her research interests include rural health, primary care and public health alignment, and graduate medical education. Dr. Hughes previously served as Deputy Secretary for Health Innovation in the Pennsylvania Department of Health, where she launched the Pennsylvania Rural Health Model, a new payment and delivery model that transitions rural hospitals to multi-payer global budgets. She serves on the American Board of Family Board of Directors. She earned her MD from the University of Iowa, her MPH in health policy from the George Washington University, and her MSc in health services research from the University of Michigan as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program. In 2018, she was named a Presidential Leadership Scholar by Presidents Clinton and Bush.
Lauren, a family physician, was both a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and Robert Graham Center Scholar. Previously she was Deputy Secretary for Health Innovation in the Pennsylvania Department of Health. In this role she designed and implemented statewide strategies to improve health and health care for all Pennsylvanians. She oversaw the launch of the Pennsylvania Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to help clinicians combat the opioid and heroin epidemic and led the department's successful bid to become fully accredited through the Public Health Accreditation Board. Along with the CMS Innovation Center, she co-developed the Pennsylvania Rural Health Model designed to move rural hospitals from fee-for-service to value-based. Lauren also led the Model's 18-month, pre-implementation phase on the state level, operationalizing the work of government officials, hospitals, payers, the hospital association, contractors, and rural health organizations through its launch. She earned her medical degree from the University of Iowa and her master in public health with a concentration in health policy from the George Washington University and in health services research from the University of Michigan as part of the Robert Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program.
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- Assistant Dean, Longitudinal Curriculum
Dr. Mike Guthrie is Executive-in-Residence at the University of Colorado- Denver campus in the School of Business, Program in Health Adm
inistration. 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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- Director of Health & Society Curriculum
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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- Administrator for Medical Scientist Training Program
Emily Gottenborg is an Assistant Professor within the Hospital Medicine Group 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 has served as the Director of the Medicine Ward Service at the University of Colorado since 2014, and has multiple educational roles within the University, teaching learners of all levels and across the health professions about principles of medical leadership, quality improvement, and patient centered care.
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- Deputy Director
- Farley Center Staff Member
- Instructor
Ms. Gilchrist is an instructor in the CU Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. As deputy director of the Farley Health Policy Center, she oversees the planning, execution, and completion of its programs and projects. She has been a project manager and qualitative researcher for federal, state, and foundation grants and contracts; and works to improve health through policies that advance behavioral health integration, prevention and health promotion, community engagement, and workforce development. Ms. Gilchrist enjoys mentoring students and fellows. She received her Master of Public Health degree from the University of Michigan, and she previously worked at the University of Michigan Center for Managing Chronic Disease.
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- Medical Director of Simulation
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- 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.
Dr. deGruy has chaired the family medicine department since 1999, and before this he chaired the University of Alabama Department of Family Medicine. He has served as president of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association and the North American Primary Care Research Group. Dr. deGruy is a board member for the National Network of Depression Centers, the Family Physicians' Inquiries Network, and of the Colorado Institute of Family Medicine. He chairs the National Integration Academy Council, and sits on the editorial board for The Annals of Family Medicine and Families, Systems and Health. He is the created and writes Precipice: Pushing the Edge of Family Medicine, an annual publication that addresses hard problems in primary care, and he is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Ms. Conyers-Tucker is a senior at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, and is majoring in global health, policy and culture. She is especially interested in working with public health policies that focus on the most vulnerable and underserved communities, and is passionate about addressing stigmas and social determinants of health to improve overall health outcomes in communities. Her interest in rural communities stems from the fact she grew up in rural Ketchikan, Alaska. As part of the Farley Health Policy Center team, she looks forward to growing her understanding about how health policy is formed, and to working on projects that implement changes in the community. She has recently become interested in the intersection between law and health.
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- Senior Business Services Professional, Administration & Finance
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- Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Associate Director Dr. Tamm-Daniels will serve on the board and will have the following administrative duties: development of resident international curriculum, post-travel debriefs and presentation development, liaison with host country providers, and will travel to host institution at minimum 2 weeks per year.
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- Critical Care Fellowship Program Director
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- Associate Dean, Quality and Safety Education
- IHQSE Director
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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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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Communication Assistant Director
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- Associate Medical Director
- Associate Medical Director / Associate Director of Simulation
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- the Quality & Safety Program Coordinator
Joe LaFond is the Quality & Safety Program Coordinator with dual responsibilities in the IHQSE and CU Graduate Medical Education (GME) Office on the Anschutz Medical Campus. He earned his bachelor's degree in English from Colorado State University in 2013. Joe provides administrative support and manages marketing and communications campaigns for the IHQSE. Additionally, he is the coordinator for Quality & Safety programs including the GME Partnership for Quality and Safety Incentive Program and GME Quality & Safety Academy. Prior to joining the IHQSE, he was the Benefits Program Coordinator in the CU GME office.
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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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- Assistant Dean for Administration and Finance
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- Associate Dean for Student Advocacy
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- Director for Child Health Associate Physician Assistant Program
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- Executive Director, Area Health Education Center
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- Business Support Specialist for
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- Business Services Professional
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- Human Resources Specialist
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- Senior Director, Alumni Relations
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- Executive Assistant for Dr. Glasheen
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- Assistant Vice Chancellor of Advancement ( Ex - Officio )
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- Associate Dean, Clinical Outreach
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- Director, Accreditation and Compliance
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- CRASH Event Coordinator
- Events & Communications Coordinator
Katie Raffel is a hospitalist at Denver Health, an anchor institution serving Denver's most vulnerable populations, with a passion for systems improvement education and implementation as well as diagnostic safety. Prior to transitioning to Denver Health in 2020, Katie completed her residency training and QI chief year at UCSF and joined faculty as Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine. She served as the medical director of the Medicine Unit-Based Leadership team, assistant medical director of Mt. Zion clinical site, course director for MS4 and IM residency QI elective, and the Division of Hospital Medicine QI education lead. Katie was a member of the inaugural faculty in the UCSF Learning Health System cohort, an innovative program focused on developing faculty to lead transformative change in their clinical setting with faculty and trainees. She is looking forward to translating those developed skills to IHQSE leadership and programming.
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- Director for the Office of Diversity and Inclusion
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- Human Resources Specialist
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- Associate
- Program Director
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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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- Farley Center Staff Member
- Senior Advisor
- Distinguished Professor
- Distinguished Professor of Family Medicine
Dr. Green is Distinguished Professor of Family Medicine and the Epperson-Zorn Chair for Innovation in Family Medicine and Primary Care at the University of Colorado. He is an academic family physician who has served in various roles including medical practice in rural and urban settings, residency director, investigator, teacher, and department chair. He directed Prescription for Health, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focused on addressing unhealthy behaviors in primary care practice. He also directed Advancing Care Together and Upstream! Together funded by The Colorado Health Foundation, aiming to change a broad spectrum of practices to provide integrated care and establish a movement to prevent mental, emotional, and behavioral problems. He served as founding director of the Robert Graham Policy Center in Washington DC and is a regular member of the National Academy of Medicine. His current work emphasizes redesigning how clinical practice, health professions education, physician certification, and clinical research are done.
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- Human Resources Technician
Laura Rosenthal is an Associate Professor and the Assistant Dean of DNP Programs at the University of Colorado, College of Nursing. She also continues her 15-year practice 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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- 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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- Neuroanesthesia Fellowship Program Director
- Non - Anesthesia Learner Director at UCHealth
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- Communications Coordinator
Ms. Niebauer was among the early leaders in the development of practice-based research having laid the groundwork for the Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network, and playing a similar role for several Colorado practice-based research networks. As a communications and convening specialist, she participated in the RWJF national program office Prescription for Health, focusing on unhealthy behaviors in primary care practice. And then with the Colorado Health Foundation initiatives, Advancing Care Together and UPSTREAM Together, she worked to better integrate behavioral health and primary care and raise awareness of preventing mental, emotional and behavioral problems. Besides Farley Health Policy Center communications, Ms. Niebauer also supports communications in the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine.
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- Pediatric Fellowship Program Coordinator
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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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- Lead Human Resources Specialist
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- Associate Residency Program Director
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- Chief of Staff
- Director of Communications
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- Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Hello, my name is Martin. I am working at UC Denver in the Division of Critical Care and Neuroanesthesia since 2017. I completed both Neuro-Critical and Cardiac Critical Care fellowships at UC San Diego and Columbia University respectively. I have been joining medical missions in Mexico since 2014. Given my interest in resident education, I look forward to combine both interests and join the CU Global Anesthesia Initiative.
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- Curriculum Manager for Education, Alpine - Summit Post - Clerkship Curriculum
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- Clinical Quality Project Manager, Clinical Affairs
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- IT Professional / UME Support / Information Services
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Cardiothoracic Fellowship Program Director
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Medical Director
- Anesthesiology Assistant Program ( Master of Science / Nurse Anesthesia Clinical Program )
- Medical Director, Sedation Services / Medical Director, Master of Science in Anesthesiology Program
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- Business Services Professional
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- IT Director
- Director of Information Services
Moksha Patel is a Senior Instructor 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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- Human Resources Technician
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- Associate Pediatric Fellowship Program Director
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- Director of Medical Education and Student Affairs
Ms. Alishahi is a doctoral candidate in epidemiology at the University of Colorado Denver, Colorado School of Public Health. She received her MSc in epidemiology from the Boston University School of Public Health, and has worked in various capacities in public health research, programming, and evaluation related to substance use and behavioral health. Her research interests include addressing how policies impact social determinants of health and healthcare access of marginalized populations. She is currently working with the Farley Health Policy Center team in assessing healthcare cost and utilization of children and youth in foster care data to inform policies at the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Finance.
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- Administrative Assistant for Child Health Associate Physician Assistant Program
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- Information Technology Principal Professional
- Team Lead
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- Human Resources Shared Services Manager
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- Regional Pain Fellowship Program Director
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- Administrator
- Conference Manager
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- Executive Assistant to VCHA and Dean Reilly
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- Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
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- Compliance and Security Analyst / Compliance and Security
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- Director of Operations
- Farley Center Staff Member
A Colorado native, Dr. Gritz received his PhD in economics from Stanford University. He has more than 30 years' experience in directing and managing demonstrations, evaluations, research, and technical assistance projects designed to improve economic, health and other outcomes affecting vulnerable populations. Many projects involved youth, veterans, and the elderly. D. Gritz has held several corporate management positions, directing more than 100 scientific and technical staff, managing the financial performance of international business units and intellectual property portfolios. Current work focuses on healthcare value and its association with socio-economics factors to rapidly respond to research and policy analysis needs of government agencies in Colorado.
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- Team Lead / Information Services
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- Associate Pain Medicine Fellowship Program Director
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- Residency Program Director
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- Business Services Professional, Clinical Affairs
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- IT Manager / Research and System Administration
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- IT Professional / Information Services
Dr. Hemeida is an assistant professor in the CU Department of Family Medicine and practicing family physician, caring for low-income and indigent populations at Denver Health, one of the largest safety-net hospitals systems in the country. She joined the Farley Health Policy Center as its first policy fellow in collaboration with the Robert Graham Center of Washington, DC. Dr. Hemeida completed a NRSA primary care research fellowship, and earned her MPH with a focus in health systems management and policy. Her interests lie in primary care and integrated behavioral health, workforce and education, and the social determinants of health. She is also a passionate dancer, and travels nationally to perform and instruct in various Afro-Latin dances when time permits.
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- Executive Assistant, Administration
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- System Administrator / Research and System Administration
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- Executive Director
- Farley Center Staff Member
- Pediatrician and Professor of Pediatrics and Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine
Dr. Wong is a pediatrician and professor of pediatrics and family medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, teaching child health, advocacy, policy and health care reform with focused interests in integrated care and achieving health equity. She is vice chair for policy and advocacy in the CU Department of Pediatrics. She served as health policy advisor to First Lady Michelle Obama for development and implementation of her signature child obesity initiative, Let's Move, and assisted in launching Joining Forces to improve wellness and resilience of military families. She was a senior program consultant to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. As a lifelong dancer, she is inspired to advance health through the arts.
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- Associate Dean for Office of Diversity & Inclusion
- Senior Associate Dean for Education, Faculty Lead LCME Accreditation
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- Family Physician at Denver Health
Dr. Gold is a practicing family physician at Denver Health and an assistant professor in the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine. Her policy work focuses on improving health and wellbeing for all through payment reform and system transformation, including the integration of behavioral and social health with medical care. She coordinates the Farley Health Policy Center's health policy journal club. Dr. Gold completed medical school at the University of Virginia; family medicine residency at the University of Colorado, Denver Health Track; and a health policy fellowship with the Farley Health Policy Center following residency. She serves on the board of the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians and is a member of the Colorado Primary Care Payment Reform Collaborative.
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- Community Engagement / Practice Transformation Specialist
Stephanie is the Community Engagement and Practice Transformation Specialist at the Farley Health Policy Center and an instructor in the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine. She has been working in quality improvement and practice transformation since 2006, collaborating with project partners and stakeholders in practice transformation initiatives including the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative, Advancing Care Together, EvidenceNOW, the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative and the Colorado State Innovation Model. Her work supports the development of multi-stakeholder teams in practices and communities that adopt sustainable, evidence-based, patient-centered methods to achieve improved patient and family experience, improved outcomes and decreased costs of care. She has expertise in stakeholder engagement, consensus building and behavioral health integration.
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- Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
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- Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
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- Farley Center Staff Member
- Medicaid Policy Director
Susan has two decades of experience in health care policy and program development. Previously, she managed the program design section in the Health Programs Office at the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing where she led the development of new programs and health care reform initiatives within the Accountable Care Collaborative (ACC…Colorado's delivery system that is central to promoting coordinated care and good health outcomes while controlling health care costs). Before this she managed the ACC and designed and implemented Colorado's early expansion to open Medicaid eligibility to include adults without dependent children. She has also served as consultant to multiple states regarding re-design their Medicaid programs. When employed at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, she focused on the financing of long-term services and supports and issues related to an aging society. Susan holds a Master of Public Policy with a focus in health policy from Georgetown University, and a bachelor's degree from Middlebury College.
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- Senior Coordinator Faculty Affairs
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- Director of Facilities & Planning
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- Director, Accreditation and Compliance
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- Human Resources Specialist
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- Chief of the Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology
Tom Majcher (pronounced "Major") is currently Chief of the Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology and Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Anesthesiology at the School of Medicine. Dr. Majcher has been with Children's Colorado for almost 19 years having joined us after 13 years of practice at Riley Children's Hospital and the University of Indiana. He is a fellow in the American College of Osteopathic Anesthesiologists, recently completed his master's in health administration at the University of Southern California and was a former US Air Force Reserve Flight Surgeon.
Dr. Majcher's professional passions are pediatric anesthesia, pediatric pain management, mentorship of trainees and faculty as well as medical education. Dr. Majcher has been married for 40 years and he and his wife, Linda, are proud parents of 6 children who have blessed them with 10 grandchildren. He and Linda are now empty-nesters who enjoy spending time with family and hiking the Colorado mountains with their two dogs.
Tyler Anstett, DO, SFHM, 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 Education for the Division of Hospital Medicine, Quality Improvement Curriculum Director for the Hospitalist Training Program, Director of the GME/IHQSE Quality and Safety Academy, and he is an Associate Vice Chair for Quality for the Department of Medicine. He also sits on the national Education Committee for the Society of Hospital Medicine.
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- Associate Director, Alumni Relations & Advancement
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- Business Services Professional
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- IT Manager / Undergraduate Medical Education ( UME )
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- Chairman
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology
- FASA®
- Professor and Chair
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- Professor of Anesthesiology / Chair of Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Colorado
As a permanent member of the oversight committee, Dr. Todorovic will be requested to participate in resident selection and financial oversight. She will likewise be invited spend as much or as little time in-country as she deems appropriate.
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- Anesthesiologist
- Member of the Oversight Committee
Vesna Todorovic is the inaugural CU Medicine Endowed Chair and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University Of Colorado School Of Medicine. Dr. Todorovic received her graduate education at the University of Belgrade in Serbia (MD) and the University of Illinois, Chicago (PhD) and completed residency training in Anesthesia at the Washington University of School of Medicine in St. Louis. She earned an MBA from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA and received the Harold Carron Professor of Anesthesiology Endowment from the University of Virginia Health System during her time on the faculty there.
Dr. Todorovic is a practicing anesthesiologist and has been working simultaneously as a clinician scientist for over 25 years. Dr. Todorovic has developed three major lines of research: anesthetics as neurotoxins, the management of chronic pain and the mechanisms of anesthesia-induced developmental neurodegeneration. Dr. Todorovic's research is federally funded and has resulted in over 100 peer-reviewed publications and 11 patents. She has received numerous grants from organizations such as the National Institute of Health, March of Dimes, the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association.
Dr. Todorovic acts as Chair of the National Institute of Health's Surgery, Anesthesiology and Trauma study section. She also serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology and the Associate Editorial Board for British Journal of Anaesthesia. She also serves as an Associate Editor for BMC Anesthesiology, and Anesthesiology. Dr. Todorovic has been a member of the Board of Directors for the International Society for Anaesthetic Pharmacology since 2007 and served as the Chairman in 2015.
In her role as a PI, Dr. Todorovic has mentored and trained over 50 graduate students, medical students and post-docs. As Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, her focus extends to the mentorship and growth of junior faculty, expanding clinical programs and increasing collaboration with the School of Medicine and surrounding community.
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- Wellbeing Research Projects
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- IT Professional / Information Services