Weekly Work In Progress
Presented by: Dr. Shipra Arya
Associate Professor of Surgery (Vascular Surgery)
Stanford University Medical Center
Title: “Multidisciplinary Care of High Risk Surgical Patients”
Robert Burke, MD, MS, FHM
Director of Research, Hospital Medicine Section at the University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine
Title: “Evaluating the impact of performance pay for skilled nursing facilities”
For dial in instructions, please contact Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu
Talk Title: From Fish to Department of Surgery:
The Career Journey of a Physician-Scientist
SPEAKER: Bruce Ling, MDTitle: “Decoding Multi-Omics Based Big Data with BI/AI Solutions in Health Care”
Monthly Work-In-Progress Session
Presented by:
Anne Fernandez, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry Addiction Center
Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation
University of Michigan
Title: Alcohol-related Clinical Practices in Surgical Healthcare: Qualitative findings from patients and healthcare providers.
Short Bio
Dr. Anne Fernandez, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and licensed clinical psychologist. Her research focuses on surgical optimization for patients with alcohol use disorders, including brief motivational interventions in healthcare settings. The goal of this work is to improve surgical outcomes through early pre-operative intervention that addresses addiction and other behavioral health risk factors. She currently has a career development grant funded by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Dr. Fernandez is a faculty member of the UM Department of Psychiatry Addiction Center and the UM Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation.
Monthly Work-In-Progress Session
Presented by:
Sofia C. Zambrano, PhD
Psychologist & Postdoctoral Researcher
University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland
Title: “Talking about death and caring for dying patients: A qualitative perspective on physicians’ and surgeons’ experiences and needs.”
Short Bio
Sofia C. Zambrano is a Colombian psychologist and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Sofia obtained her PhD from The University of Adelaide, Australia and her dissertation on how physicians experience the death of their patients was awarded the Dean’s commendation for Research Excellence. Her main research interests lie in understanding the psychological impact that communicating about death and dying has on healthcare professionals, patients, and families. She is the principal investigator of an international project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation that aims to understand how and when physicians decide to communicate with patients and their significant others about the end of life. Together with her Australian husband, she spends her free time in either the Swiss mountains or at opposite ends of the earth, where their friends and family are.
Monthly Work-In-Progress Session
Presented by:
Douglas B. White, MD, MAS
UPMC Endowed Chair of Ethics in Critical Care Medicine
Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Medicine
Director, Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness, CRISMA Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine
Vice-Chair for Faculty Development, Department of Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Title: “Conducting Trials of Interventions to Improve Communication and Decision Making in ICUs”
Weekly Work-In-Progress
Presented by:
Elizabeth C. Wick, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of General Surgery
University of California at San Francisco
Title: “Can We Accelerate Improved Surgical Care and Recovery? An Update on the AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery”