EAR, NOSE, THROAT, AUDIOLOGY, ALLERGY - Key Persons
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- Director, Division of Adult Critical Care Medicine
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- Director, Spine Rehabilitation / Director, Interventional Spine and Musculoskeletal Fellowship / Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Botulinum Toxin Injections, Intrathecal Baclofen Therapy, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spasticity Management, Spinal Cord Injury
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- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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- Medical Director, Multiple Sclerosis Rehabilitation Program
Expertise: Cerebral Palsy, Movement Disorders, Multiple Sclerosis Rehabilitation, Neurologic Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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- Clinical Support Staff Member
- Medicial Office Coordinator
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- Clinical Support Staff Member
- Metabolic Bone Center Coordinator
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- Therapy Manager, Columbia and Odenton Clinics
Expertise: breast cancer, lymphedema, oncology deconditioning, orthopedics
Expertise: Adrenal Diseases, Adrenal Insufficiency, Adrenal Tumors, Adrenocortical Carcinoma (ACC), Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
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- Professor of Neuroscience / Professor of Neurology / Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Research Interests: Childhood motor development, Damage to the central nervous system, Motor learning defects, Cerebellar motor disorders, Stroke
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- Assistant Director of Patient Safety for the Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Assistant Director of Patient Safety, Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
Plotts serves as the Assistant Director of Patient Safety for The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. Her clinical experience led her to the field of patient safety and served as the patient safety officer and worked on various projects for AI, including CUSP for VAP and the national CLABSI initiative. She was a past patient safety fellow with the AIPSQLA academy (formerly AI Patient Safety Fellowship). Plotts was a member of one of the first Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) teams at Johns Hopkins Hospital and provides leadership, mentorship and coaching to CUSP teams across Johns Hopkins Medicine and to hospitals nationally and internationally. She is most interested in Just Culture implementation, safety culture measurement and assessment and multidisciplinary collaboration as a tool to improve patient outcomes.
She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from Towson University and a Master's degree in Nursing Leadership and Health Systems Management. She came to Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2000 as a critical care nurse in the Weinberg Adult Surgical ICU. In addition to clinical nursing experience, she also served as the Transfusion Safety Officer in the JHH Department of Pathology and a Patient Safety Coordinator for Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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- Member of the Clinician & Research Staff
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- Expertise: Diabetes, Endocrine Diseases, Endocrinology
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- Clinical Support Staff Member
- Medicial Office Coordinator
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- Senior Research Specialist
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- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Hip Dislocations, Knee Dislocations, Lateral Collateral Ligament Tears (LCL) Injury, Medial Collateral Ligament Tears (MCL) Injury, Medial Patellar Femoral Ligament (MPFL) Injury
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- Acting Patient Care Manager, Inpatient Rehabilitation, Burton 1, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
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- Therapy Manager, the Johns Hopkins Hospital
Cagla Oruc is a Research Assistant on the Human Factors team at the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. She is an Industrial Engineer with experience in fields of supply chain, process improvement and project management. Her research interests include human factors engineering applications in areas of patient safety and global health.
Education
B.S., Industrial Engineering, Bilkent University, 2016
M.S., Health Care Management, Johns Hopkins University, Carey Business School, 2017
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- Assistant Patient Care Manager
Expertise: Achilles Tendon Injuries, Ankle Injuries, Anterior Shoulder Instability, Arthritis of the Foot and Ankle, Arthritis of the Hand
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- Senior Director of Development
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- Patient Safety Specialist for the Johns Hopkins Hospital
Cheryl Connors is a patient safety specialist for the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. She is responsible for planning, implementing and evaluating safety programs throughout the hospital. Her primary responsibility is to serve as the director for the RISE (Resiliency In Stressful Events) team which she co-led the development and implementation of. The RISE team currently provides trained peer support for Johns Hopkins Hospital employees who encounter stressful, patient related events.
Connors works with the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) teams to promote a culture of sharing and learning from defects, and to work toward meeting safety goals. She also has responsibility for the debriefing of the Safety Culture Assessment Survey house-wide and is faculty for the TeamSTEPPS training program at AI.
Connors received her Doctorate in Nursing Practice degree from the University of Alabama in 2019. She has a clinical background in pediatrics, where she developed a passion to improve patient safety. Connors led the Josie King Safety team for several years at Johns Hopkins before advancing her career in nursing leadership. Connors officially became a patient safety specialist in 2012.
Connors has presented on safety topics both nationally and internationally (Qatar, Okinawa, and Saudi Arabia) and has facilitated the education of staff and the establishment of safety teams in the Military Health System. She collaborates with Johns Hopkins' schools of nursing, public health and medicine on teamwork and communication and patient safety programs.
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- Member of the Clinician & Research Staff
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- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Neuromyelitis Optica, Pediatric Spinal Cord Injury, Spinal Cord Dysfunction, Spinal Cord Injury, Spinal Cord Trauma
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- Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Diabetes Mellitus, Endocrinology, Obesity
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- Medical Director, Critical Care Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Program Director, Outcomes After Critical Illness and Surgery ( OACIS ) Group / Professor of Medicine
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- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Botox Spasticity Treatment, Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Neurologic Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Stroke Rehabilitation
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- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Arthritis, Back Pain, Bursitis, Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Expertise: Diagnostic Radiology, Hyperthyroidism, Thyroid and Parathyroid, Thyroid Cancer, Thyroid Diseases
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- Clinical Support Staff Member
- Medicial Office Coordinator
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- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Back Pain, Cancer Rehabilitation, Joint Pain, Musculoskeletal Injuries, Myofascial Pain
Expertise: Diagnostic Radiology, Endocrine Oncology, Thyroid Cancer, Thyroid Diseases, Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL)
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- Administrative Specialist
Doyle, Peter A., Gurses, Ayse P. Pronovost, Peter J. Mastering Medical Devices for Safe Use: Policy, Purchasing, and Training. American Journal of Medical Quality, I-3, 2016.
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- Professor Emeritus of the Johns Hopkins Department of Physical Medicine
Dr. Jeffrey Palmer is a professor emeritus of the Johns Hopkins Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. A member of the faculty since 1983, Dr. Palmer reached the rank of professor in 2002. From 2004 to 2014, he served as the Lawrence Cardinal Shehan Chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the physiatrist-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr. Palmer has retired from medical practice. He remains active in research and teaching.
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- M.H.S. Sr. Project Administrator
Kasda's primary responsibilities involve management of the Johns Hopkins Health System's event reporting initiatives. She has presented both nationally and internationally on how event reporting data can be used to improve culture and to design safer care delivery systems, and sharing opportunities for advancements in event reporting analytics. Kasda also helps lead the health system's Patient Safety Organization efforts to ensure appropriate data protections and maximize patient safety learning.
Within The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Kasda manages the functions of the hospital's Patient Safety Committee. She leads various event review meetings and process improvement projects, helping teams to identify opportunities to prevent or mitigate harm and improve care. She also participates in root cause analyses as needed. Kasda is most active in the Hopkins Event Action Team, which meets weekly to triage important patient safety events, as well as groups focused on patient identification, pain management, continuity of care and health IT safety.
Kasda participated in a patient safety research grant using malpractice claims to develop care transition planning tools. She is also helping to lead the organization's efforts to integrate concepts of mindful organizing and principles of high reliability into operations.
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- Director of Nursing, Inpatient Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
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- Clinical Dietitian Specialist
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- Graduate Researcher of the Year, 2017
Ephrem is a postdoctoral research fellow - working under the supervision of Dr. Ayse Gurses - at the Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. He is a pharmacist-health services researcher whose research interests mainly lie in understanding and mitigating hazards to safe medication use and delivery systems across the health care continuum including, in the inpatient, ambulatory, and community care settings. More broadly, Ephrem's scholarly interests also focus on large-scale organizational changes targeted at improving safety and quality of patient care across healthcare institutions.
Education
Ph.D., Pharmacy-Heath Services Research), University of Wisconsin-Madison 2016
M.S., Pharmacy-Heath Services Research), University of Wisconsin-Madison 2014
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- Nurse Manager, Inpatient Rehabilitation, Meyer 7, the Johns Hopkins Hospital
Erica Reinhardt began working in hospitals as a registered dietitian in 2006, transitioning into a food service director role, where she gained health care operations experience. During this time, Erica earned her Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and led and participated in several Lean Sigma projects.
Currently, Erica leads continuous improvement efforts at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. She mentors leaders through process improvement, educates on Lean tools and concepts, supports Lean Sigma projects and Lean Daily Management work, and leads Kaizen events.
Reinhardt received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University in Nutritional Sciences. She then attended Clemson University, where she completed her dietetic internship and earned her master's degree in Food, Nutrition, and Culinary Sciences.
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- Senior Research Coordinator for the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety
Erin Kirley is a Senior Research Coordinator for the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. She currently manages two quality improvement/patient safety research projects: the AHRQ funded Quality and Safety Review System Pilot Test in Hospitals; and the PCORI funded project, A Roadmap for Establishing Peer Support Programs in Research and the Real World. Erin also coordinated the development of a curriculum for primary care teams on the collaborative project between the Armstrong Institute and the American Medical Association. The project was part of the AMA's Improving Health Outcomes initiative, and the objective was to develop a program to help clinicians identify and treat patients with undiagnosed hypertension.
Erin joined the Armstrong Institute in August 2012 as an Administrative Coordinator, providing support on multiple research projects, including a national improvement project to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive care units and the Armstrong Institute's national initiative on surgical safety. Prior to joining the Armstrong Institute, Erin was the Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Facilities for The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System.
Education
B.S. in Applied Nutrition from the University of Delaware.
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- Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Expertise: Concussion, Musculoskeletal Injuries, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Sports Injuries, Sports Medicine
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- Research Program Assistant II
Expertise: Endocrinology, Neuroendocrine Disorders, Pituitary Disorders
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- Project Manager, Education & Training
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- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Back Pain, Cancer Pain, Chronic Pain, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Comprehensive Pain Treatment
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- Clinical Support Staff Member
- Medicial Office Coordinator
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- Senior Associate Director of Stewardship
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- Clinical Support Staff Member
- Medicial Office Coordinator
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- Senior Associate Director of Alumni Relations
Expertise: Endocrinology, Thyroid, Adrenal and Pituitary Disorders in Autoimmunity and Aging
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- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation / Assistant Professor of Oncology
Expertise: Cancer Rehabilitation, Cancer-Related Fatigue, Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy, Gait Impairment, Joint Pain
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- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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- Health Care & Surgery
- Health Care Professionals
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Expertise: Adrenal Diseases, Hypoglycemia, Pituitary Disorders, Type 1 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
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- Burn Fellowship Program Director
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- Patient Care Manager for the Burn Center and Surgical Intensive Care
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- Assistant Director of Development
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- Member of the Rehabilitation Therapy Services Leadership Team
- Director of Rehabilitation Therapy Services Outreach, Physical Therapist
Expertise: orthopedics, running analysis, sports rehabilitation
Expertise: Calcium Disorders, Endocrinology, Glucocorticoid Induced Osteoporosis, Hyperparathyroidism, Male Osteoporosis
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- Vice Chair, Clinical Affairs, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation / Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Electrodiagnostic Medicine (EMG), Neurologic Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spasticity Management, Stroke Rehabilitation
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- Clinical Support Staff Member
- Medicial Office Coordinator
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- Clinical Support Staff Member
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- Member of the Clinician & Research Staff
Expertise: Diabetes, Endocrinology, Inflammation, Metabolic Syndrome, Metabolism
Laura Sigman joined the Armstrong Institute in January 2024 as the Executive Director for Strategic Solutions. In this role, she leads the educational and external partnership teams to support, integrate, and develop initiatives that drive quality, safety, and service within Johns Hopkins Medicine and through external partnerships.
Dr. Sigman is committed to driving innovation and systems improvements. She enjoys solving complex problems at the intersection of healthcare and the legal, regulatory, and financial structures governing it. Dr. Sigman has worked with health care companies to develop successful business strategies, including with an asynchronous telehealth provider that now contracts with Amazon; a health fintech company; a medical coding company held by private equity; and an AI-based pain management app. She's served in progressive leadership roles in prior healthcare institutions, including as associate director of patient safety for a large pediatric emergency department; associate medical director of a pediatric emergency group at a community hospital; and as a risk manager in a hospital legal department. She sees patients in the pediatric emergency department.
Dr. Sigman has a track record of building collaborative, multidisciplinary partnerships of diverse stakeholders to drive operational outcomes and improve safety, efficiency, and quality for patients and providers. She has led a hospital-wide committee to improve safety event reporting; consulted on strategic and financial boards; and worked to improve revenue capture and insurance reimbursements. As a nonprofit board member, she led efforts to manage risks, set infection control policies, and guide reopenings during the pandemic.
Dr. Sigman completed law school at Harvard, medical school at the University of Chicago, and residency in Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins. Early in her career, she worked for the Department of Justice as an honors program attorney on cases involving Medicare, Medicaid, and FDA law, and at the National Research Council of the National Academies.
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- Clinical Resource Analyst, Outpatient Program Developer
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- Director Emerita, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation / Distinguished Service Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Professor
Expertise: Adrenal Disorders, Endocrinology, Male Testosterone Disorders, Metabolic Bone Disease, Osteoporosis
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- Assistant Director of Alumni Relations
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- Senior Director of Patient Safety for the Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety
- Senior Director of Patient Safety, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality and Johns Hopkins Hospital
Dr. Paine serves as the Senior Director of Patient Safety for The Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. In this role, she is responsible for the strategic and tactical oversight of the Patient Safety programs, including the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP), culture assessment, Health IT safety, Human Factors, second victim support, event reporting, just culture and workplace violence. She served on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Quality Forum's Expert Panel for Common Formats in event reporting. She has spoken to audiences and consulted with hospitals nationally and internationally on CUSP, Science of Patient Safety, event reporting, high reliability, safety culture measurement and improvement as well as patient and family involvement in safety. Of particular interest in her practice as a Patient Safety Officer is mindful organizing, risk assessment and culture.
She is an adjunct faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and associate faculty member at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from Nazareth College of Rochester, a Master's degree in Applied Behavioral Science and Change Management from the Johns Hopkins University and a Doctorate of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She came to The Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1988 as a Labor & Delivery nurse. In addition to clinical and patient care management experience, she has held positions in hospital administration, product line development, and work process redesign.
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- Executive Director of Advanced Technologies and Data Science, Johns Hopkins Health System
Luis M. Ahumada has recently assumed the role of Executive Director of Advanced Technologies and Data Science at Johns Hopkins Health System, bringing with him a wealth of expertise. In this capacity, Luis will lead the strategic planning, execution, and dissemination of state-of-the-art analytics and data science solutions within the Armstrong Institute. His primary focus will revolve around strengthening the hospital's commitment to patient care, research, education, and advocacy by establishing and enhancing a resilient data science infrastructure.
With six years of experience as Director of Health Data Science and Analytics at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, Luis has a proven track record of planning, implementing, and leading systemwide analytic solutions. Notably, he founded the Center for Pediatric Data Science and Analytic Methodology, a pioneering hub for artificial intelligence and machine learning research projects. Before his tenure at JHACH, Luis led the data science team at the esteemed Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Luis holds a master's degree in computer science from Villanova University and earned his PhD in information science and technology from Drexel University.
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- Instructor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spinal Cord Dysfunction, Spinal Cord Injury, Spinal Cord Trauma, Traumatic and Non-traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
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- Director, Johns Hopkins Burn Center
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- Expertise: Gastroenterology, Immunology, Metabolism
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- Therapy Manager, Green Spring Station Clinic
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- Director of Education and Training
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- Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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- Co - Course Director, Optimal Anesthesia Management
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- Research Program Manager at the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety
Mohammad Naqibuddin is a research program manager at the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. His current research includes the BREATHE and BREATHE2 studies, which seek to improve health-related quality of life and reduce health care costs for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Following his medical education from Dhaka University, Bangladesh, he pursued his postgraduate studies and postdoctoral research fellowship at The Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine, respectively. His current scholarly interests focus on COPD and patient-centered outcome research. Since 1999, he has been working at Johns Hopkins in different research projects that include prostate cancer, lupus, brain function, HIV, depression and diabetes.
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- Director, Musculoskeletal Center Director, Sports Medicine Fellowship Program Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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- Clinical Support Staff Member
- Medical Office Coordinator
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- Clinical Support Staff Member
- Medical Office Coordinator
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- Clinical Support Staff Member
- Medical Office Coordinator
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- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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- Assistant Director of Communications
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- Expertise: Continuous Glucose Monitoring, Diabetes Mellitus, Diabetic Foot Ulcers, Endocrinology, Hypoglycemia
Expertise: Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Neurologic Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Stroke, Stroke Rehabilitation
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- Clinical Support Staff Member
- Medical Office Coordinator / Fellows Clinic Coordinator
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- the Quality and Innovation Project Administrator
Patience is the Quality and Innovation Project Administrator on the Human Factors team at the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. She is a Biomedical Engineer with a broad technical skill-set, research and project management experience, as well as extensive international exposure. She is passionate about patient safety, global health and the development of high-quality, low-cost medical devices and processes for different healthcare settings. Her research interests include the application of human factors engineering to infection control and prevention.
Education
B.S., Biomedical Engineering, premedicine, Bucknell University, 2014
M.S.E., Bioengineering Innovation and Design, Johns Hopkins University, 2015
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- Expertise: Endocrinology, Metabolic Disorders, Thyroid Diseases
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- Clinical Support Staff Member
- Patient Service Coordinator / Medical Assistant
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- Patient Safety Specialist for the Johns Hopkins Hospital
Paula Kent is a patient safety specialist for the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. She is responsible for planning, implementing and evaluating safety programs throughout the hospital. Her primary responsibility involves working with the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) teams to promote a culture of sharing and learning from defects, and to work toward meeting safety goals. In this capacity, she is able to observe the safety and teamwork cultures across the organization, and especially on CUSP teams. Kent works with organizational leaders to onboard them to the CUSP Executive role and partner them with new teams. She also has responsibility for the debriefing of the Safety Culture Assessment Survey house-wide annually and is responsible for oversight of the TeamSTEPPS training program at AI.
She has a Doctor of Public Health, a Master's of Nursing and an M.B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and has a certificate in Patient Safety from IHI. She has worked in Patient Safety for more than 10 years and has an interest in measurement and monitoring of the performance of health care organizations to improve the culture of safety and delivery of safe patient care.
Kent has presented on safety topics both nationally and internationally (Mexico, Great Britain, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia and Korea) and has facilitated the education of staff and the establishment of safety teams in the United Arab Emirates. She collaborates with Johns Hopkins' schools of nursing, public health and medicine, and the Armstrong Institute on teamwork and communication and patient safety programs.
Peter Doyle is a human factors engineer with 35 years of experience performing human factors analysis, design and test activities in the fields of nuclear power generation, defense contracting, simulation and training, information and communication systems, and health care and medicine. Given his interest in analysis and design he orients his efforts to applied solutions for operational challenges. Since 2007, he has worked in the Clinical Engineering Services department at The Johns Hopkins Hospital using accepted human factors methodologies and established human factors design criteria in the design and improvement of information-based, mechanical and process technologies. He addresses patient safety issues to assess and control risk associated with medical devices, work processes and information technologies.
Examples of projects include medical device evaluation and selection, design for alarm management, tubing misconnections studies, prototype development and testing of infusion pump design, simulations to assess and improve delivery of emergency services, integration of nurse call and communication systems and participation in root cause analyses of events involving patient harm. He also evaluates critical care processes via hands-on simulations and conducts usability analyses of medical devices and information technologies. Pete has worked collaboratively with the Association for Advancement of Medical Instrumentation on national level efforts to improve infusion pump design and to assist in the integration of complex medical technologies into health care settings.
Education
Ph.D., Human factors track of the applied experimental psychology program at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
M.A., Clinical Psychology, Loyola University, Baltimore, MD
B.A., Psychology, Towson State University, Towson, MD
Certifications and Memberships
Pete is certified as a Human Factors Practitioner (# 0053) and as a Certified Usability Analyst.
He holds memberships in the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the Association for Advancement of Medical Instrumentation.
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- Associate Director of Development
- Development
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- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Research Interests: Aphasia recovery, Functional neuroimaging, Interventions to enhance language recovery after stroke, Neuromodulation
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- Trauma Medical Director, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center / Co - Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
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- Manager, Clinical Education and Training, International Center for Spinal Cord Injury ( ICSCI ) Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Research Interests: Activity-based restorative therapy, neurological pathology, meuromuscular electrical stimulation
A Lean Sigma Master Black Belt, Hill has led Lean Sigma classes and coached Green Belts at Johns Hopkins since 2005. With 15 years of experience in the aerospace industry, Hill has achieved significant depth in the areas of Lean, Six Sigma, team dynamics and facilitation, and has led many cross-functional process improvement teams over the years. Leveraging this experience, he has served as a mentor to numerous Green Belts.
Hill received a B.S. in Business Administration/Management from Bryant College in Smithfield, Rhode Island.
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- Expertise: Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases, Diabetes Mellitus, Endocrinology, Geriatric Endocrinology, Metabolism
Expertise: Botox Spasticity Treatment, Botulinum Toxin Injections, Cancer Rehabilitation, Cerebral Palsy, Chronic Pain
Expertise: Adrenal Insufficiency, Adrenal Tumors, Cushing Syndrome, Endocrinology, Growth Hormone Deficiency
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- Assistant Vice President, SoM Alumni Relations and FJHM Engagement
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- Assistant Patient Care Manager
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- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Research Interests: Human locomotion, Motor learning, Motor control, Movement disorders, Neurologic damage and disease.
Sadaf Kazi is a Human Factors Researcher at the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her research work has explored how human cognition is shaped by the environment in which it operates by considering the effect of dynamic system variables such as uncertainty, time pressure, etc., on cognitive variables such as vigilance and prospective memory. She conducts research on cognitive and teamwork factors influencing performance in a variety of healthcare environments, and collaborates with the patient safety team to conduct proactive risk assessment in healthcare delivery.
Education
Ph.D., Engineering Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016
M.S., Engineering Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014
M.A., Clinical Psychology, SNDT Women's University, 2006
B.A., Psychology, University of Mumbai, 2004
Durso, F.T., Kazi, S., & Darling, C.M. (2014). The role of number of tasks in determining the relevance of information. Human Factors, 56 (5), 952-57.
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- Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Alliances for Johns Hopkins Medicine
Sanford Wu is the vice president of business development and strategic alliances for Johns Hopkins Medicine. In this role, he collaborates with entities and individuals across the health system and school of medicine to shape and lead business development and alliance management efforts in support of strategic initiatives that include enterprise growth and development, new programs and business ventures, care delivery innovations, corporate partnerships and other strategic relationships. Additionally, Mr. Wu serves on various management and advisory committees that provide leadership and strategic direction on matters related to physician practice coordination and development, technology innovation, precision medicine, programmatic development, name use and licensing guidelines.
Mr. Wu originally joined Johns Hopkins Medicine in 2006. His past roles include assistant director of global strategy and managing director for global services at Johns Hopkins Medicine International. While there, Mr. Wu oversaw a wide range of global initiatives including growth strategy, internal operations, project management functions, consulting engagements and affiliations, business development and commercialization of intellectual property. Additionally, he played an integral role in expanding regional market entry and expansion initiatives across Asia and the Middle East. While at Johns Hopkins International, he worked extensively in China with leading public hospitals and universities, as well as some of the country's largest conglomerates and private equity-backed initiatives that spanned health care services, clinical research, investment strategy, talent and leadership development, risk, market scan and due diligence issues.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Wu held positions in corporate finance, startup platform operations and investment analysis, working in management roles in both private and publicly listed entities in China and the United States.
Mr. Wu earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado Boulder and a master's degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
Expertise: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity
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- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Botulinum Toxin Injections, Brain Injury, Cerebral Palsy, Congenital Spine Disorders, Neurologic Rehabilitation
A Lean Sigma Black Belt, Burkett joined the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality in 2015, bringing more than 15 years of experience leading, coaching and mentoring projects in manufacturing, business and health care. During his career, Burkett has been able to share the tenets of Lean Sigma with numerous cross-functional teams and Green Belts to make improvements in perioperative care, intensive care units and pharmacies.
His experience includes work at Nabisco, Kraft and Loyola University Health System in Chicago.
Burkett earned his bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.
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- Coordinator for Burn Rehabilitation
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- Senior Clinical Research Coordinator
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- Expertise: Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, Diabetes Mellitus, Endocrinology, Lipid Disorders
Expertise: Adrenal Tumors, Cushing Syndrome, Glucocorticoid Induced Adrenal Insufficiency, Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia (MEN), Neuroendocrine Tumors
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- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Arthritis, Back Pain, Botox Injections, Chronic Pain, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
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- Healthcare Performance Improvement Expert
Steve Meurer is a Healthcare Performance Improvement expert focused on improving health systems' quality, safety, finances and operations. He brings 30+ years of education and experience in improvement science as well as 20+ years of teaching Masters students, and 1,000+ presentations to health systems providing leaders with an increased ability to improve performance.
Prior to his role at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Dr. Meurer was the Executive Principal of Data Science & Member Insights at Vizient. Dr. Meurer was the senior-most subject matter expert in the use of data from Vizient's Clinical Data Base to drive performance improvement, and presented improvement opportunities to leaders at almost every health system in the US. Prior to this role, Dr. Meurer was Senior Vice President at University Health System Consortium (UHC) where he led all aspects of UHC's comparative data portfolio, including sales, support, methodology and information technology. UHC was a founding organization of Vizient, and Dr. Meurer spent 17 years at these organizations.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Meurer was Chief Quality & Information Officer at the DeKalb Health System in Atlanta, where he led the integration of Quality and Information Technology, and subsequently managed 200+ people. Dr. Meurer has also held positions of increasing responsibility at St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, PA; BJC HealthCare in St. Louis, MO; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; and Orlando (FL) Regional Healthcare System.
Dr. Meurer also spent 15 years as Associate Professor at Rush University, where he taught Quality & Operations in Healthcare to Master of Healthcare Administration students. Dr. Meurer has also taught at Loyola University Chicago, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University and Temple University. Dr. Meurer is an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Medical Quality, and is the Administration Group Leader for the Health Professions Educators' Summer Symposium (HPESS).
Dr. Meurer earned a PhD in Health Services Research at Saint Louis University with a dissertation entitled ‘Quality Improvement Implementation in Hospitals'; a Master of Business Administration & Master of Health Science at the University of Florida; and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross. He holds a Certificate in Healthcare Quality & Informatics from Intermountain Healthcare.
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- Director, Johns Hopkins Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome ( POTS ) Program Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation / Associate Professor of Neurology
Expertise: Dermatomyositis, Electrodiagnostic Medicine (EMG), Inclusion Body Myositis, Motor Neuron Diseases, Myositis
Expertise: Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases, Endocrinology
Expertise: Diabetes, Endocrinology, Metabolic Syndrome, Metabolism, Obesity
Expertise: Diabetes, Endocrinology, HIV-Associated Metabolic Abnormalities, Lipid Disorders, Male Testosterone Disorders
Expertise: Botox Spasticity Treatment, Intrathecal Baclofen Therapy, Neuro Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spasticity Management
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- Senior Research Program Coordinator
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- Senior Administrative Coordinator for the Burn Center
A Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Wilson joined the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality in 2016. Wilson has over 18 years of experience in the business sector leading, coaching, mentoring and facilitating teams in Operations cross-functionally from manufacturing to supply chain.
As part of the AI Lean Sigma Team, Wilson drives continuous improvement through the deployment of Lean across Clinical Communities, Academic and Community Hospitals. Through teaching and coaching, he builds the capacity of healthcare professionals, to enable the improvement of healthcare experience across the Johns Hopkins Health System.
Lamy earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil and Architectural Engineering from Drexel University.
Expertise: Dyslipidemia, Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease