Dr. Nasia Safdar recently won the John Q. Sherman Award for Excellence in Patient Engagement. This award recognizes individuals and healthcare provider institutions that are changing the face of healthcare by using innovative programs and approaches that increase patient and family engagement. Read more about the award and Dr. Safdar’s innovative approach to involving patients… Read more »
The NIH-National Institute on Aging has just funded a 5 year Project (Project PI: Dr. Amy Kind) for a prospective, single-blind randomized controlled trial of the Coordinated-Transitional Care (C-TraC) program. The primary goal of this study is to determine C-TraC’s impact on 30-day rehospitalizations, caregiver stress, and the patient-centered post-hospital outcomes of delirium prevention/resolution, functional… Read more »
Dr. Elizabeth Jacobs was recently re-appointed to the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Advisory Panel on Addressing Disparities. She has served on the panel for the last year, and will now be serving for the next three years. Dr. Jacobs is one of 21 members of the panel, which represents investigators, providers, and community and… Read more »
Brock Polnaszek was selected as one of the national recipients of the Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR) awards sponsored by the American Federation for Aging Research and the National Institutes on Aging. His study, under the mentorship of Dr. Amy Kind and Dr. Sanjay Asthana, will aim to deternine the accuracy of written… Read more »
Dr. Amy Kind has been invited to participate on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Technical Expert Panel on re-evaluating hospital-level measures of 30-day post-discharge care transitions for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure (HF), and pneumonia. This panel will re-evaluate three measures that are currently endorsed by the National Quality… Read more »
A recent study by Dr. Heather Johnson et al. found that only 34% of 18-39 year old adults with hypertension started antihypertensive medications or achieved blood pressure control within a mean follow-up period of 20 months. The article was published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine and featured in US News & World Report(link is external), MedPage Today, Health Magazine, Philly.com, and the Tomah Journal.
Dr. Nancy Pandhi and Dr. Gretchen Schwarze have been selected to receive New Investigator awards from the Wisconsin Partnership Program for their projects, “Aligning Preferences in Older Adults with Decision for High Risk Surgery” and “The Effectiveness of an Integrated Mental Health and Primary Care Model for Wisconsin Patients with Severe Mental Illness,” respectively. Read more about the… Read more »
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Population Health Sciences, has been re-appointed by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to serve on their Advisory Panel on Improving Healthcare Systems (IHS). The Advisory Panel on IHS is one of four panels to provide expertise and feedback on scientific and technical… Read more »
Dr. Sally Kraft, Medical Director for Quality, Safety, and Innovation at UW Health, was awarded an AAMC Learning Health System Planning award for a project entitled, “Connecting the Dots: Building the Infrastructure Linking Patient Care to Professional Education to Scholarly Work and Back to the Patient Again.” This project will be conducted in conjunction with… Read more »
Dr. Caprice Greenberg was named a “woman to watch” in the January 2014 issue of Brava magazine for her work on coaching in the operating room to improve surgical quality. Four other UW Health physicians were also named for their work to improve surgical and oncological care.