Join us on February 13 to learn how you can operationalize your insights for improved patient outcomes and an optimal healthcare environment through our training programs. Register here.
Application Deadline: 3/1/2024
Not interested in committing to a longitudinal program? Consider taking one course as an ad-hoc educational experience.
We expanded our healthcare quality & and safety course offerings which are available to be taken as a standalone course, outside the formal enrollment of a program. Take a look here and let us know if you are interested in learning more here.
Summer 2024 Courses:
Applied Clinical Informatics in Quality Improvement
Healthcare Quality: Landscape, Standards, and Measurement
Safety and Quality Leadership in Healthcare Systems
Kudos
Julie Uspal, MD, MHQS student, received the Penn Medicine Duncan Van Dusen Professionalism Award for Faculty.
Rashia Shakir, MD, HQS Certificate graduate, had her abstract "Short and sweet – Reducing the prescribed antibiotic duration in pediatric patients treated for community acquired pneumonia (CAP) at a community hospital." accepted for an oral presentation at the 2024 Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) conference.
Geoff Bass, MD, MBA, HQS Certificate graduate, accepted a new role as the Medical Director, Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, for Grant Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio.
Meghan M. Galligan, MD, MSHP, HQS Concentration graduate, has been appointed as the new Medical Director for Patient Safety at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Jennifer Myers, MD, Director of Penn CHIPS, and a team of Perelman School of Medicine physician medical educators were the recipients of the 2024 Macy Foundation Catalyst Awards for their work titled "Using Co-Design and Quality Improvement Principles to Achieve Fairer, More Equitable Narrative Assessments of Resident Physicians in the CLE.”
Kristi McNaughton, MHS, the Penn CHIPS Scholarly Writing Advisor, was recently promoted in her full-time role to Senior Writer in the Department of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
December 2023 Graduation Spotlight
Masters in Healthcare Quality & Safety
Hana Alharbi, MD, MHQS; Assistant professor of Pediatrics and Clinical Genetics, Tabuk University
Sara Molisani, MD, MHQS; Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Arun Srinivasan, MD, MHQS; Associate Professor of Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Hannah Stinson, MD, MHQS; Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Certificate in Healthcare Quality & Safety
Emily Ruckdeschel, MD; Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Upcoming Opportunities and Lectures
BMJ Call for Papers, Due July 31, 2024 BMJ Quality and Safety would like to publish a series of themed papers on the topic of “Striving for equity in the quality and safety of patient care.” Read more here.
Penn Implementation Science Center (PISCE) Winter Lecture: Integrating Implementation Science with Quality Improvement; Jennifer Callaghan-Koru, PhD, MHS. Register here.