MAT IN THE SLV - Key Persons
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- Co - Director, Office of Professionalism
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- Business Intelligence Developer
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- Associate Dean, Office of Diversity & Inclusion
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Business Services Professional, Faculty Affairs
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Curriculum Manager for Education, Clerkship Curriculum
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- Clerkship Curriculum Manager, Plains
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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- Director of Health & Society Pillar / Co - Director of COMPASS Program
Dr. Anuja Riles was born and raised in the Bay Area, California. She attended UCLA for her undergraduate degrees in Biology and Education. From there, Dr. Riles went on to the University of Michigan Medical School, where she met her husband. Upon graduation, they moved to Boston where she earned a Master's in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and completed her residency in pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital. After a brief stint in San Francisco, Dr. Riles and her family moved to Colorado in 2017. Currently, she is a pediatric hospitalist in the Banner Health System. Dr. Riles has always had a strong interest in curriculum development and assessment and medical student mentorship and has been thrilled with the opportunity to be a part of the FC Branch Campus of the University of Colorado. Anuja is the proud mother of her two children, Emma and Leo. Her interests include running, skiing with her family, working hard to earn the title of "foodie", and rooting for the University of Michigan football team.
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- Associate Professor and Hospitalist
Anunta Virapongse, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor and hospitalist for the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado Hospital. She completed her medical school training at the University of South Florida College of Medicine, Internal Medicine Residency at Baystate Medical Center in 2006 and earned her Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2007. She has completed extensive coursework in the areas of quality improvement and medical leadership, including a nonclinical fellowship at the Medical Innovation and Leadership Division at Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program at the Greater New York Hospital Association and United Hospital Fund and the MiniATP course at Intermountain Health. Her areas of interest include clinical pathway development and outcomes driven improvement strategies. Dr. Virapongse is the Director of Quality and Patient Safety for the Division of Hospital Medicine, the Associate Vice Chair for Quality for the Department of Medicine, the Chair of the DOM Quality Council, the Director of the IHQSE Clinical Effectiveness and Patient Safety Grant Program for UCH and newly elected At Large Member of the UCH Medical Board.
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- Director of Medical Scientist Training Program
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- Director of Finance and Administration
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- Program Manager for Continuing Medical Education Program
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- Business Operations Team Lead
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- Administrative Assistant for Graduate Medical Education
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- CO - Director of COMPASS Program / Senior Clinical Instructor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, CUSOM
Dr. Stern was raised in Memphis, TN. In 1997, he graduated from the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center and went on to complete his residency in 2001. He is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He worked as an OB/GYN physician for eight years after his residency and then moved to Fort Collins, where he was able to take advantage of all of the things that Colorado has to offer. Dr. Stern believes in providing comprehensive women's health care that involves patients as the key decision makers in their healthcare choices. He enjoys the diversity of care that he is able to provide women during their lives. During his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family and doing lots of outdoor activities.
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- Interim Associate Dean
- Interim Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education
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- Continuing Medical Education
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- Human Resources Principal Professional
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- Associate Director, Financial & Business Operations
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- Senior Associate Dean for Administration and Finance / Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer
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- Application Developer
- Web Application Developer
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- Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education
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- Director of Communications
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- IT Professional / Compliance Specialist / Compliance and Security
- Team Member
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- Director for Faculty Affairs
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- Administrator for Medical Scientist Training Program
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- Professor in the University of Colorado School of Medicine
Christina Finlayson, MD, is a Professor in the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, specializing in GI Tumor and Endocrine Surgery, appointed to the faculty in 1998. Dr. Finlayson is a graduate of the University Of Utah School Of Medicine and completed her residency training at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She completed her fellowship in surgical oncology at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, PA. She is a member of the American College of Surgeons and the Denver Academy of Surgery. She was appointed the Associate Medical Director of CU Medicine and became an Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs in 2009.
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Veterans Administration Medical Center
If Patrick had a mantra, he might steal the words of artist Clyfford Still: "It's intolerable to be stopped by the frame's edge." He revels in challenging long-held assumptions to facilitate the human(e) potential of individuals and teams. His work cultivating thriving healthcare environments is anchored in a simple, if not easy, principle: start with human relationships. Dr. Kneeland is VP of Medical Affairs at DispatchHealth where he leads AdvancedCare and Extended Care - service lines dedicated to bringing hospital and SNF-level care to patients' homes.
Previously, Patrick served as the Executive Medical Director for Patient and Provider Experience at UCHealth, where he led the development of a system-level interdisciplinary patient and provider experience team and strategic blueprint. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado and a founding faculty member of the University of Colorado's Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Efficiency (IHQSE) where he has been instrumental in the creation of a groundbreaking healthcare leadership development program. After completing training in internal medicine at the University of California-San Francisco, Patrick completed a fellowship in Academic Hospital Medicine where he focused on the transformation of clinical delivery systems and the role of culture in improving patient safety. He is a certified Patient Safety Officer and has advanced training in user-centered design from Stanford's d.school.
In addition to being a practicing hospital medicine physician, he is an experienced leadership coach, speaker, facilitator, system-designer and a zealous destroyer of all of those silos everyone always talks about. He serves on the faculty of several groundbreaking national healthcare leadership movements including the Institute for Healthcare Excellence, the Care Collaboratory, the National Taskforce for Humanity in Healthcare, and the Tulane-Ochsner Leadership Program.
Patrick lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife and two kids where they engage the city, the mountains, and their incredible friends and family with curiosity and wonder.
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- Business Intelligence Reporting Analyst
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- Research Lab and Facilities Liaison - Research Affairs
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- Research Director
- IT Research Director / Research and System Administration
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- Web Developer and Content Editor
- Web Developer and Content Manager
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- Program Manager, System Administration
- System Admin Manager / Research and System Administration
Dr. Tad-y is the Associate Chief Medical Officer of Patient Flow at the University of Colorado Hospital. In this role, she oversees efforts to optimize operational efficiency and ensure patients receive the right care, at the right time, in the right setting. In addition, she is Medical Director for Capacity at UCHealth, guiding the strategy for optimal placement of patients within the system. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (CU) where she is an academic hospitalist. She teaches for the Quality and Safety Educators Academy, authored and co-directs the quality improvement curriculum and annual QI pre-course for the American College of Physicians and is an Assistant Editor for the Joint Commission Journal of Quality and Patient Safety. She serves on the Board for the Society of Hospital Medicine and Prime Health.
Dr. Tad-y's prior leadership roles included Vice President of Clinical Affairs for the Colorado Hospital Association in which she led statewide quality and safety initiatives in Colorado hospitals, oversaw workforce development including physician engagement, hospital emergency preparedness and innovation. She is a faculty member of CU's Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety and Efficiency, and previously served as a director on the Board of Colorado's state health information exchange, Contexture (parent company of CORHIO).
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- Associate Chief Medical Officer at Children 's Hospital Colorado
David Brumbaugh is the Associate Chief Medical Officer at Children's Hospital Colorado, where his primary focus in inpatient operations. He is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Section of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition in the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He was previously the Clinical Medical Director for the Digestive Health Institute at Children's Hospital Colorado. He received his MD degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and completed his pediatrics residency at Children's Hospital Colorado, where he was also Chief Resident in Pediatrics. He was a general pediatrician for three years in the Yakima Valley, WA, before returning to Children's Hospital Colorado for a fellowship in gastroenterology. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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- Desktop Support Team Supervisor / Information Services
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- Business Operations Manager
- Finance
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- Associate Director, Human Resources
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- Business Services Professional and Assistant to the Senior Associate Dean for Education
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- Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs / Chief Medical Officer for CU Medicine
- Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Chief Medical Officer, CU Medicine
Anne Fuhlbrigge, MD, MS, is in the CU Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care and serves as the School of Medicine Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and as Chief Medical Officer for CU Medicine. She is the former Vice Chair for Ambulatory Specialty Services and Integrated Clinical Services at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Fuhlbrigge received her MD and Internal Medicine training from Washington University School of Medicine/ Barnes Hospital and her Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship at BWH/BIDMC combined program with a master's degree in Clinical Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health. She most recently held positions at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Channing Division of Network Medicine.
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- Director of Clinical Skills ( DOCS ) Curriculum
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- Associate Dean of Student Life
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- Assistant Dean for Education, Alpine
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- Assistant Dean, Fort Collins Branch / Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, CUSOM
Dr. Christie Reimer grew up in South Dakota where she graduated from Augustana College and the University of South Dakota School of Medicine. She completed her residency and was a chief resident at the University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita and finished a fellowship in primary care faculty development at Michigan State University. She was on faculty and worked in graduate medical education at KU and then the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine before moving to Colorado in 2008. She has been actively involved in leadership at UCHealth and in the American College of Physicians, and thus values participation of physicians (and students) in leadership roles in our communities on behalf of our patients. She is an ambulatory general internal medicine physician, providing primary care for adults at the UCHealth Snow Mesa Internal Medicine clinic in Fort Collins. She enjoys interacting with students in the classroom and clinical settings and hopes to role model excellence in patient-centered care and promote individualized career exploration and wellbeing for medical students. Her free time is spent with her two children and partner, and she loves good company, good food, good music, and sunshine.
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- Assistant Dean for Education, Plains
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- Assistant Dean of Student Affairs
Dr. Janet Kukreja completed her residency training in urologic surgery at the University of Rochester and a urologic oncology fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center prior to being recruited to the University of Colorado. She is passionate about research to improve the quality of care provided to patients, patient decision making and bladder cancer. She has published multiple quality improvement projects and continues to work with the hospital to decrease hospital acquired catheter associated urinary tract infections.
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- Assistant Dean of Admissions & Student Affairs
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- Assistant Dean for Education, Foothills
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- Associate Dean, Clinical Outreach
- Director of Admissions, Fort Collins Branch / Professor, Department of Medicine
- Professor of Medicine at the University
Karen Chacko, MD, is Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where she has worked since 2000. She graduated from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and then completed her residency, including a chief resident year, at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Dr. Chacko has been highly involved in residency education, specifically with the Primary Care Internal Medicine residency program. She is a Fellow in the American College of Physicians and is actively involved with the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine and Society of General Internal Medicine. Through her work to date, she has been engaged with the healthcare community of Colorado, and she currently serves as the Associate Dean for Clinical Outreach for the school of medicine.
Dr. Karen Chacko attended UC San Diego for both undergraduate and medical school. She moved to Colorado in 1996 for residency in the Primary Care Internal Medicine program at the University of Colorado. She did a chief residency, and then joined faculty to work in academics and specifically to work with learners throughout her career. Karen was the program director for the Primary Care IM residency for over 15 years and the senior associate program director for the categorical IM residency for 10 years.
Karen currently holds roles as the Associate Dean of Clinical Outreach as well as the Medical Director of Digital Health for the School of Medicine faculty at the Anschutz Medical Campus in addition to being the Director of Admissions for the CU SOM at CSU Medical Branch Campus. Her greatest joys in her career include caring for her patients and working with learners with a focus on career mentorship and personal development. Most importantly, Karen is the mother to two wonderful teenage girls. She enjoys exercising, with a particular addiction to Peloton most recently, cooking, spending time with family, traveling and card games.
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- Director of Health & Society Curriculum
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- Assistant Dean of Student Affairs
Dr. Marcela Henao received her Medical Degree from the University of Antioquia, Colombia. After finishing medical school, she joined a clinical research group investigating human genetic characteristics that could predispose tuberculosis (TB) disease. After that initial contact with basic research on a devastating global disease, she was determined to pursue a career in the field of research with the goal of preventing diseases. Thus, Dr. Henao obtained a master's degree in Biomedical Sciences emphasis on Immunology. During that time in Colombia, she met professors from Colorado State University and was invited to CSU as a visiting scientist. She was later awarded a Ph.D. by this institution, where she studied the immune response to pulmonary infectious diseases. Her lab currently focuses on SARS-CoV-2 and TB vaccine research in human and animal models. Dr. Henao's husband is also a researcher at CSU. They have two children and travel to Colombia every year to visit family.
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- Assistant Dean of Student Affairs
Dr. Mike Guthrie is Executive-in-Residence at the University of Colorado- Denver campus in the School of Business, Program in Health Administration. He is also an executive coach, focused exclusively on supporting physician executive performance improvement.
He leads learning collaboratives on healthcare issues for health care executive teams, boards of trustees, and physician leader groups in organizations of various types. He is well known as a thought leader regarding physician engagement and physician relationship strategy for hospitals and health systems.
Mike has special experience in the area of physician leadership development; helping physicians, hospital and health systems work effectively together to improve quality, safety, and cost. He is also a strategic business advisor to several healthcare companies.
Mike has been a practicing physician, a medical director, a chief operating officer, a health system CEO, and a senior executive for a large national healthcare alliance.
Dr. Guthrie graduated from Amherst College and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He took his internship in medicine at Denver General Hospital and his residency in consultation psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Masters in Business Administration from the School of Business at the University of Colorado. He is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and was in private practice prior to becoming a physician executive in 1979. He is a past President of the American Academy of Medical Directors and past President of the American College of Physician Executives.
Dr. Guthrie is a frequent speaker for health systems and national organizations on topics including physician leadership, physician organizations, team management, and healthcare strategy. He works frequently with the American College of Physician Executives, the American College of Healthcare Executives, the Health Management Academy, the Society of Hospital Medicine, and Sg2, as well as selected health system clients. He has served on the editorial advisory board for several national healthcare journals and has published over 50 articles on healthcare management and physician leadership topics. He serves on the executive advisory boards for companies that service the healthcare industry sector in information technology, business services, and customer support.
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- Director of Medical Science Curriculum
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- Assistant Dean of Student Affairs
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- Health Systems and Community Leadership Trail Director, Fort Collins Branch
Dr. Rebecca Bade is a Colorado native and grew up in Fort Collins. She did her undergraduate training at Colorado School of Mines before attending medical school in Baltimore at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed residency training in internal medicine at the University of Colorado and then was delighted to join the Northern Colorado Hospitalists team in her hometown.
Dr. Bade's professional interests include medical education and curriculum development, clinical reasoning, and hospital quality improvement. In her role as the Health Systems and Community Leadership Trail Director, she hopes to equip students with tools to serve as exemplary leaders throughout the entirety of their medical careers. Outside of work, she loves to spend time with her husband and son, read, and enjoy the beautiful state of Colorado.
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.
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- Associate Dean for Medical Education, Fort Collins Branch Director Interprofessional Education
Dr. Suzanne Brandenburg grew up in Buffalo, New York. She followed her family to Colorado after college and completed medical school and residency training at the University of Colorado. She became a faculty member right out of residency and has been a clinician educator at the University of Colorado for her entire career. She is currently leading the CU SOM at CSU start-up. She also oversees interprofessional education on the Anschutz Medical Campus and previously served as Director of the Medicine Residency Program and as Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Medicine. She enjoys teaching, mentoring and building programs, and feels privileged to care for patients as a general internist. Outside of medicine, she spends much of her time with family - her husband of over 30 years, her son and his fiancée, her parents and lots of in-laws. She likes to cook, eat, read and travel.
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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- Education Specialist, Fort Collins Branch
Ellen grew up in the small town of Socorro, New Mexico. Drawn to the rainy and green Pacific Northwest, she obtained her B.S. in Geological Sciences from the Clark Honors College at University of Oregon, M.S. in Geological Sciences from the University of Oregon, and Ph.D. in Science Education from Oregon State University.
Ellen enjoys working with educators to identify and implement meaningful learning experiences for students, particularly those in the science, technology, and engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. She is passionate about cultivating welcoming and rewarding learning experiences that build off students' funds of knowledge and speak to students' learning interests and professional goals. She considers it a great gift to collaborate with the excellent faculty, staff, and students at CUSOM, Fort Collins Branch at CSU. Ellen also enjoys road biking, kayaking on Horsetooth Reservoir, watching movies at The Lyric, drawing landscapes with oil pastels, tending to her 30+ houseplants, reading Mary Oliver, and hanging out with her partner, Grant, and their two tuxedo cats, Phil Claw-ins and Oswald.
Emily Gottenborg is an Associate Professor within the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado, with an interest in system redesign, patient safety, and leadership in the healthcare setting. She has received advanced training during a Chief Residency in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the University of California, San Francisco, as well as through Intermountain Healthcare's Advanced Training Program, and the Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Efficiency. Dr. Gottenborg is faculty within the Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety and Efficiency where she is the Director of the Improvement Academy and specializes in coaching frontline clinical teams in improvement work. She also has multiple educational roles within the University School of Medicine and Internal Medicine Residency Program, teaching learners of all levels and across the health professions about principles of medical leadership and quality improvement.
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Student Coordinator, Quality Improvement & Patient Safety LIC
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- Medical Director of Simulation
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- System Administrator
- System Administrator / Research and System Administration
Ethan Cumbler is an Internal Medicine and Pediatric trained Hospitalist at the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH). He is a pioneer in the study and practice of inter-professional team-based hospital quality improvement. He created the Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) Service at UCH and is the Medical Director for UCH's ACE unit. This serves as a crucible for testing QI methods for reducing iatrogenic events such as falls or hospital acquired infections using teams of professionals across disciplines. He spearheaded a series of initiatives reducing treatment time for stroke patients recognized by the American Stroke Association. His QI programs for in-hospital stroke and hospital care for the elderly service serve as national models. He heads the National Stroke Association's In-hospital Stroke QI initiative and speaks nationally on how to improve systems of hospital care for stroke patients. He also serves as faculty for the UCLA Leadership and Management in Geriatrics course and his invited lectures on improving care for the hospitalized elderly have been presented at the National American College of Physicians and Society of Hospital Medicine conferences. Within UCH, he chairs the Geriatric Hospital Leadership Committee and has served in many capacities for the Hospital Medicine Division over the years, including work on patient safety and medical error. His educational approach to teaching patient safety is published by the Association of American Medical Colleges and has been utilized by academic medical centers around the world. Ethan has been a recipient of awards at UCH for excellence in leadership, humanism, education, and quality improvement. He received the annual 2012 National Society of Hospital Medicine Award for Team-Based Quality Improvement for his work over 6 years improving response to in-hospital stroke. Ethan seeks to bring a collaborative approach to system change such that physicians are partners with other disciplines, and the hospital, to create a culture which fosters continuous quality improvement.
Dr. Shtull-Leber grew up in Ann Arbor, MI, where he also attended the University of Michigan for college, medical school, and for a master's degree in clinical research. He moved to Phoenix with his wife where he completed a residency in emergency medicine at Maricopa Medical Center, and a fellowship in medical education through the University of Arizona - Phoenix. During his training, Tani has also worked to become a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine. Dr. Shtull-Leber joined the CUSOM faculty in 2022 as the Clinical Content Director for the Plains year at the Fort Collins branch campus. His primary teaching interests include teaching clinical reasoning using case-based small-group discussions. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, skiing, traveling, and spending time with his wife, son, and dog.
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- Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine
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- System Administrator
- System Administrator / Information Services
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- Professor, CSU Department of Biomedical Sciences
Dr. Gregory Amberg was born in Columbus, Ohio, and raised in Temple City, California. Subsequently, he resided in Idaho, Nevada, Washington, and Colorado. He completed his BS in Biology (University of California Riverside/Idaho State Univ.), PharmD (Idaho State Univ. College of Pharmacy), PhD (Cell & Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology; Univ. of Nevada Reno), and Postdoctoral Fellowship (Cardiovascular Physiology & Pathophysiology; Univ. of Washington).
His involvement in teaching at the CU SOM at CSU Branch Campus stems from a long-standing interest in promoting and integrating the basic biomedical sciences within modern medical education curricula.
His teaching areas of interest include Physiology, Pharmacology, Cell & Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, and Pharmacotherapeutics. His research areas of interest include using electrophysiology and advanced imaging to study localized calcium and oxidant signaling mechanism in smooth muscle cells, neuroendocrine cells, and neurons. Greg's non-academic interests include listening to music, cooking and baking, woodworking, and spending time in the mountains.
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- LIC Director, Health Equity LIC and Southern Colorado Children 's LIC
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- Executive Assistant, Administration & Finance
Dr Westfall started the High Plains Research Network, a geographic community and practice-based research network in rural and frontier Colorado. He practiced family medicine in several rural communities including Limon, Ft Morgan, and his hometown of Yuma, Colorado. He added Medication Assisted Treatment to his clinical care in 2016. Jack Westfall is a family doctor in Washington, DC and Director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care. Serving as Director, he brings his extensive clinical, research, and policy experience to study primary care access and payment, training, rural health, linking primary care and community health, and policies aimed at assuring a robust primary care workforce for rural, urban, and vulnerable communities.
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- UME Business Intelligence Analyst
Dr. Chapman is a North Dakota native. He attended the University of North Dakota for both undergraduate and medical school. He completed a residency and a research fellowship in emergency medicine at Wright State University. He went on to complete residencies in general surgery at Wright State University, Plastic Surgery at the University of Wisconsin and a hand and microsurgery fellowship at the University of Minnesota. He practiced in Fargo, North Dakota and then yearning for more sun and warmer weather moved to Fort Collins where he practiced for 12 years. For the past 7 years he has been the Chief Medical Officer at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center. He is excited to help train our future physicians to not only excel clinically but also to remain compassionate patient centered provides. Married for 39 years he and his wife have 2 grown children, a super mellow rescue dog and enjoy almost everything Colorado.
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- Associate Dean, Quality and Safety Education
- IHQSE Director
- Quality & Safety Education
Jeffrey J. Glasheen, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado where he is the Vice Chair for the Department of Medicine and Chief Quality Officer of University of Colorado Hospital. Dr. Glasheen attended the University Of Wisconsin School Of Medicine and completed his residency training, including a chief residency year, at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. In 2012 he was named the Director of the University of Colorado's Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety and Efficiency. This pioneering program is charged with enhancing the quality and safety of the care provided at the University of Colorado Hospital and the Children's Hospital of Colorado.
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- Program Manager, UME
- Team Lead
- UME Program Manager
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- Assistant Director for UME, Fort Collins Branch Campus
Ms. Smith was born and raised in Tampa, Florida and attended college at Saint Leo University where she obtained her undergraduate degree in psychology and master's in business administration. She has spent the last 30 years in the medical operations arena and worked with many amazing clinicians along the way. She is excited to take the experience and knowledge she has gained in the medical community and apply it to her role as program director for the new Fort Collins Branch. Having been in hospitals and medical clinics for 30 years, she hopes to bring a different perspective to the students on medical operations and how they intersect in care delivery.
She and her husband have been married for 30 years and have been blessed to see different parts of the world in their younger years while he was in the Army. She likes to brag about their three children, Christian, Kaylyn and Devin, and RAVE about their three grandchildren, Savana, Brixxyn and Will. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, reading and constantly planning fun trips and adventures with her grandkids.
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- UCHealth 's Metro Denver Chief Quality Officer
Jennifer Wiler is UCHealth's Metro Denver Chief Quality Officer. She is a graduate of the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. She is the former Assistant Medical Director at Hahnemann University Hospital and Assistant Clinical Service Chief and Medical Director of Observation Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. She has served in numerous state and national leadership positions and is currently an Alternate of the American Medical Association RBRVS Updates Committee (RUC), Immediate Past-Chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) EM Practice Committee, Alternate Delegate to the AMA House of Delegates for Emergency Medicine, a former Chair of the American Medical Association's Women Physicians Congress, a member of the ACEP Quality and Performance and Reimbursement Committees, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Colorado Medical Society. She has been nationally recognized for her expertise in professional reimbursement, operations, quality, patient safety and health policy and has published widely on the topics.
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- Clerkship Curriculum Manager, Alpine - Summit
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- Assistant Director of Communications
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- Academic Affairs Coordinator
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- Associate Medical Director
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- Dean, CU School of Medicine & Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs ( Ex - Officio )
- Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Dean CU School of Medicine
- Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs at CU Denver, and Dean for School of Medicine
Former Jack D. Myers Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He joined Pitt in 2008 after more than two decades with Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
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- Associate Dean for Administration and Finance
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- Associate Dean for Student Advocacy
- Student Advocacy
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- Child Health Associate - Physician Assistant Program
- Director for Child Health Associate Physician Assistant Program
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Executive Director, Area Health Education Center
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- Business Services Professional
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- Student Coordinator, Health Equity LIC and Southern Colorado Children 's LIC
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- Senior Director, Alumni Relations
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- Assistant Vice Chancellor of Advancement ( Ex - Officio )
Katie Raffel, MD, is an academic hospital medicine provider at the University of Colorado with a passion for diagnostic and systems improvement. She serves as the Medical Director of Acute Care Medicine Services at UC Hospital where she works with teams in quality and safety on five medicine units. Dr. Raffel also serves as a lead of the cross-site Achieving Diagnostic Excellence through Prevention and Teamwork research/improvement collaborative and dedicates remaining time to the Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety and Efficiency, where her focus is on coaching teams through the Certificate Training Program.
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- Senior Clinical Instructor, Department of Family Medicine, CUSOM / Co - Director Clinical Skills
Dr. Rutledge pursued her Undergraduate degree at Colorado College and then attended Medical School at the University of Colorado. She completed her residency at Fort Collins Family Residency in family medicine and continues as full-time faculty at the Fort Collins program. Being able to actively practice medicine and engaged in teaching helps her maintain the full spectrum of family medicine that she is passionate about. Dr. Rutledge believes that the future of the health care system depends on excellent care provided in a patient-centered way, and she loves sharing her enthusiasm for both the art and the science of medicine with future healthcare clinicians. She is passionate about primary care, health equity, and diversity and inclusion in medical education.
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- Program Manager, Accreditation and Compliance
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- Co - Director of the Heart Institute Resuscitation Improvement
- Interim Director of Quality and Safety for the Heart Institute at Children 's Hospital Colorado
Kim DiMaria is currently the Interim Director of Quality and Safety for the Heart Institute at Children's Hospital Colorado and an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She received her Nurse Practitioner degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Johns Hopkins University. Kim has been a pediatric critical care nurse and NP in both the Pediatric and Cardiac Intensive Care Units at Children's Hospital Colorado for over fifteen years. As a leader in quality improvement within the Heart Institute, she oversees and supports over a hundred multidisciplinary team members participating in QI projects designed to improve outcomes and processes.
Kim is also the co-director of the Heart Institute Resuscitation Improvement program and has published and lectured extensively on a variety of critical care topics. Her research interests include all things quality improvement, but she is most passionate about resuscitation science, neurodevelopmental outcomes, sedation optimization, reduction of preventable harm, and engaging the clinical teams in advancing outcomes for patients with congenital and acquired heart disease.
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- Senior Professional Research Assistant With the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine
Kristen Curcija is a Senior Professional Research Assistant with the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine, and project manager for the IT MATTTRs Colorado study. Kristen works with practices and community advisory committees within the State Networks of Colorado Ambulatory Practices & Partners (SNOCAP) practice-based research network to develop, implement, and evaluate research projects throughout Colorado. She also assists with qualitative data collection and analysis for projects focused on opioid use disorder and lung cancer screening in primary care practices. From a rural community herself, Kristen enjoys learning about the unique experiences of rural clinics and understanding how to apply that information to create effective interventions within these communities.
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- Director Informatics
- Program Director, Informatics
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- Medical Director of Clinical Effectiveness at Children 's Hospital Colorado
Lalit Bajaj currently serves as the Medical Director of Clinical Effectiveness at Children's Hospital Colorado. In addition, he is a Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Bajaj has been an attending physician in the Children's Colorado Emergency Department for 15 years. He received his MD from the University of California, San Francisco in conjunction with a Master's in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996. He then completed a pediatric residency, chief residency, and pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at the University of Colorado/Children's Hospital Colorado. Dr. Bajaj has served as Research Director of the section of Emergency Medicine; as well as the Medical Director in the CHCO Research Institute. In addition, he has also served on many national leadership committees including the Steering Committee of PECARN (Pediatric Applied Care and Research Network), and the AAP Executive Committee of the Section of Emergency Medicine. Most recently, he has joined the Children's Hospital Association steering committee for value based care.
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- Senior Admissions Specialist
Laura Rosenthal is an Associate Professor and the Assistant Dean of DNP Programs at the University of Colorado, College of Nursing. She has 15-years of experience as an acute care nurse practitioner in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus. In 2011, she completed her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree; a degree created to prepare nurses for a continuously evolving healthcare landscape and to contribute interventions to improve patient safety and quality of care in populations and systems. For the past 8 years, Laura advised DNP students to complete quality improvement projects to advance delivery of care in areas including heart failure, bone marrow transplant, diabetes, osteoporosis, hypertension, and surgical site infections. Her work and the work of her students has been published and presented in the Journal of Nursing Administration, Journal of Nursing Care Quality, the Journal of Healthcare Quality, and the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplant conference. Her main interests include use of quality improvement methods to strengthen the curriculum within the Doctor of Nursing Practice program to expand the excellence and scope of the 50 DNP QI projects completed throughout the country on a yearly basis through the College of Nursing.
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- Compensation Program Manager
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- Global Health Track Associate Director
Leana May, DO, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus and the CU of Public Health, as well as a Senior Investigator through the Center for Global Health. Dr. May received her medical degree from Michigan State College of Osteopathic Medicine and her Masters of Public Health from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She completed her pediatric residency at Connecticut Children's Medical Center followed by a pediatric global health service delivery fellowship in partnership with Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital and Partners in Health. Dr. May is the Associate Director of the Global Health Track at the CU School of Medicine and the co-director of the pediatric residency global health track at Children's Hospital Colorado. Dr. May has worked in 9 resource-limited nations, recently living and working half time in Rwanda. Her research has focused on the Rwandan national pediatric oncology protocols, and their delivery, as well as an ongoing low-cost non-electric neonatal biotechnology clinical trial. Dr. May's additional global health scholarly interests include building health care capacity through health system strengthening and non-communicable diseases.
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- Co - Director, High Plains Research Network
Linda Zittleman, MSPH is a Senior Instructor in the Department of Family Medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine and the co-Director of the High Plains Research Network (HPRN). Ms. Zittleman is also a member of the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute Community Engagement program staff. She has extensive experience working with the rural practices and communities on a range of studies and managing multi-site, multi-method research projects. She helped develop the Boot Camp Translation (BCT) process used to develop the IT MATTTRs Community Programs and helped lead the IT MATTTRs research study.
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- Global Health Track Director
Dr. Abdel-Maksoud, MD, PhD, MSPH, is a physician and researcher who completed her medical degree in Egypt from Tanta University School of Medicine, and her PhD degree in Epidemiology from the University of Colorado School of Public Health. She is an Assistant Professor at the Departments of Epidemiology (CU School of Public Health) and Pediatrics (CU School of medicine). She is also the Director of the MPH concentrations in Epidemiology and in Global Health at the Colorado School of Public Health. Prior to obtaining her PhD degree in Epidemiology, Dr. Abdel-Maksoud taught, practiced medicine, and did research in Egypt. After finishing her PhD degree, Dr. Abdel-Maksoud spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow studying the racial/ethnic differences in obesity and its biomarkers. Her work in obesity earned her an award from the prestigious Obesity Society. She is a chronic disease epidemiologist, and her global health work is currently focused on child development projects in Guatemala through the Center for Global Health. She is also investigating the barriers and facilitators of cancer screening among the US Muslim community to develop culturally sensitive interventions to enhance the cancer screening practices of this population.
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- Human Resources Shared Services ( HRSS ) Manager
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- Chief of Staff
- Director of Communications
- Associate Dean of Public Relations, Chief of Staff
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- Advanced Sciences Course Director / Senior Clinical Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Rowh grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and finished her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College in Biochemistry and Chinese Studies. She fell in love with bench research and basic immunology during thesis work on HIV vaccine design at Harvard. She then joined the CDC as an Emerging Infectious Disease (EID) fellow and was deployed to Singapore during the SARS outbreak of 2003. Dr. Rowh trained at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a medical degree and a doctorate in immunology. Dr. Rowh completed her residency at Temple University Hospital in north Philadelphia and is a board-certified emergency physician. Dr. Rowh teaches for the same reason she entered medicine - to improve health inequities in the United States and internationally. She is the director of the Advanced Sciences Curriculum (ASC) during the 3rd year and teaches Global Health and Underserved Populations (GHUP). To attain optimal health for people, animals and our environment, Dr. Rowh is the co-director of the One Health Trail and will be the director of an elective in Applied Epidemiology and Public Health. She has lived and worked on five continents, earning a Master of Public Health from the University of Edinburgh. She teaches Health Systems, Policy and Management at the Colorado School of Public Health at CSU. At home, Dr. Rowh attempts to raise three productive and opinionated members of society, wrangles two rescue mutts, and has spent way too many nights staying up late in conversation with her husband.
Dr. Mary Ann De Groote was born on a U.S. Air Force Base in Germany but grew up in Iowa. After Medical School at the University of Iowa, she moved to Colorado for Internship in 1988 and has been here ever since. She completed not only her internship, but residency, Chief Residency, and ID Fellowship at the University of Colorado. She has always loved animals and has had a long-standing interest in Infectious Diseases. One of her first jobs as a teenager was cleaning dog and cat kennels at a local veterinarian's office, and when they offered her a chance to come out of the slop and help search for hookworm eggs in the fecal flotation test, she was "hooked" on ID. She initially thought that a career as a DVM was the right path, but ultimately veered toward human medicine. She has had a rewarding career as a longtime practicing Infectious Disease physician in the local Denver/Boulder area. She loves microbiology and the challenging and interesting cases. An ID doctor needs to know and understand all of medicine and keep up on the ever-changing medical knowledge base to be effective. Mary Ann has appointments at CU Anschutz and CSU and has really enjoyed being part of the new branch campus and helping it mature into a wonderful place to learn and grow the next generation of physicians. Outside of work, she enjoys biking, hiking, and spending time with her husband and two crazed rescue Labrador retriever mixes (like many Coloradoans)! It is a joy to be part of this amazing program.
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- Desktop Support Team Supervisor / Information Services
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- Application Support Administrator / Information Services
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- Director
- Director, IT Shared Services
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Assistant Director
- Assistant Director, IT Shared Services
Michelle Knees, DO completed internal medicine residency training at the University of Colorado in 2021 with a focus on healthcare systems. She spent an additional year as Chief Resident of Quality and Patient Safety, where she helped lead residency and hospital-wide quality and patient safety initiatives. She now works for the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado as an academic hospitalist. She also works part-time with the IHQSE as faculty for the Improvement Academy, where she helps coach multidisciplinary quality and process improvement projects. She is ultimately working toward becoming a health services researcher with a focus on hospital medicine cognitive load and workforce best-practices.
Moksha Patel is an Assistant Professor within the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado. He has a profound interest in systems redesign, clinical informatics, leadership and provider experience. After residency, he completed a fellowship in Quality Improvement and Health Systems Leadership. During this time, he received specialized training in clinical informatics and began his Master of Business Administration. He is currently the Lead Physician Informaticist for the Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Efficiency.
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- Interim Program Director, Student Life
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- Administrative Assistant for Child Health Associate Physician Assistant Program
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- Director of Informatics and Development
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- Project Manager
- Web Designer
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- Director, Human Resources
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- Executive Assistant to VCHA and Dean Reilly
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- Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs / Head of the University of Colorado Division of Cardiology
- Senior Associate Dean for Research Affairs
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs / Medical Director, Primary Care / UCH HOPD Clinics
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- IT Clinical and Compliance Manager / Compliance and Security
- Manager, Clinical Operations & Compliance
- Team Lead
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- Desktop Support IT Manager / Information Services
- Manager, Desktop Support
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- Associate
- Program Director
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- Desktop Support Technical Lead / Information Services
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- Business Services Professional, Clinical Affairs
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Associate Professor
- Director of Faculty Academic Development for the Children 's Hospital Colorado Section of Emergency Medicine
Sandra P. Spencer, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Section of Emergency Medicine at Children's Hospital Colorado and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado. She has a passion for promoting the spread of quality improvement work by mentoring QI leaders through manuscript publication. Dr. Spencer is the Director of the IHQSE Quality Improvement Writing group. Dr. Spencer helped develop this successful publication curricula with quality leaders from Nationwide Children's Hospital, as highlighted in "Writing Group Increases Quality Improvement Writing Competency." She has also provided similar writing lectures to national groups, including the Scholars Programs for both Emergency Medicine Services For Children (EMSC) and Pediatric Pandemic Network (PPN).
Dr. Spencer's other QI interests include making change "stick" through reliability theory, emergency services process and quality improvement, and local and national guideline development. Dr. Spencer is a member of the American Academic of Pediatrics' Council on Quality Improvement and Patient Safety's Executive Committee, where she is the Chair of its Education Subcommittee and Vice Chair of the Committee on Guideline Development.
Finally, Dr. Spencer serves as the Director of Faculty Academic Development for the Children's Hospital Colorado Section of Emergency Medicine, where she specifically supports career development for physician scholars with expertise and interests outside of classic research, including quality improvement, education, and operations.
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- IT Professional / Information Services
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- Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs Senior Medical Director - Community Practice, CU Medicine
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- Associate
- Program Director
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- System Administrator
- System Administrator / Research and System Administration
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- Senior Associate Dean for Education, Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion
- Senior Associate Dean for Education, Faculty Lead LCME Accreditation
Infectious disease physician who completed her medical school, residency, chief residency, and fellowship training at Emory University
Participated in curriculum reform at Emory and was an inaugural member of its longitudinal society coaching and teaching program
At the University of Pittsburgh, Zimmer directed the translational research track of the Master of Science in Clinical Research, and led four medical school courses, including Introduction to Being a Physician
Served for seven years as the UPMC internal medicine residency program director leader, leading an ACGME-sponsored education innovations project on approaches to post-graduate training, including team-based care, social determinants of health curriculum, safe handoffs, and reflective writing in medicine
Sharon Martson was a founding member of the CSB Leadership Team before her death in 2017, and she is fondly remembered as the "Mom" of the CSB. The scholarship aims to support a student recognized as a compassionate servant-leader.
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- Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs / Medical Director - Child Health, CU Medicine
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- Program Coordinator for the IHQSE
Sloan is the Program Coordinator for the IHQSE. She earned her bachelor's degree in Public Health from Texas State University and a master's in Public Health in Health Systems, Management & Policy from the University of Colorado School of Public Health. Prior to joining the IHQSE, Sloan worked for UCHealth as a Patient Access Representative.
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- Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
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- Director of Facilities & Planning
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- Director, Accreditation and Compliance
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- Co - Director Clinical Skills / Senior Clinical Instructor and Research Mentor, Department of Emergency Medicine, CUSOM
Dr. Scheel attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln for his undergraduate degree and then Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine for medical school. He completed residency at Spectrum Health - Lakeland in Emergency Medicine and an ultrasound fellowship at Denver Health. Assisting with point of care ultrasound curriculum is one of his responsibilities at CUSOM at CSU.
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- Program Manager, Web
- Team Lead
- Web Team Manager
Tyler Anstett, DO, is a hospitalist in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado. He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado where he was an inaugural member of the Hospitalist Training Program Leaders Track and went on to complete a fellowship in Hospital Medicine with a focus on Quality Improvement and Health Systems Leadership. His academic interests lie at the intersection of Quality Improvement, Leadership, and Medical Education across all levels of learners. Accordingly, his leadership roles include Director of the GME/IHQSE Quality and Safety Academy, Director of Quality and Safety Programs for GME, and he is an Associate Vice Chair for Quality for the Department of Medicine. He is an active coach for multiple projects and his own Quality Improvement work is focused on high-value care with a specific focus on simplifying processes and influencing user behavior at the point of care.
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- Director, Director, Alumni Relations & Advancement
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- Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology
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- Business Support Specialist
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- Desktop Support Technical Lead / Information Services