ACP recognizes quality improvement champions at Internal Medicine Meeting 2016
Member leaders and staff at ACP's Center for Quality selected awardees whose work has helped physicians implement practice transformation so as to achieve the quadruple aim, including better care, better patient outcomes, better value, and the promotion of physician well-being.
The ACP Quality Improvement Champion 2016 awards were announced at the third annual quality improvement (QI) reception, held at Internal Medicine Meeting 2016 in Washington, D.C., in early May.
ACP Quality Connect programs allow physicians and their health care teams implement quality improvement projects with help from ACP QI experts.
Member leaders and staff at ACP's Center for Quality selected awardees whose work has helped physicians implement practice transformation so as to achieve the quadruple aim, including better care, better patient outcomes, better value, and the promotion of physician well-being. The following participants and leaders were announced as the 2016 ACP QI Champions:
Louisiana I Raise the Rates leaders
- William E. Davis, MD, FACP, Louisiana Chapter Governor; department head, rheumatology, Ochsner Health System; senior medical staff, Ochsner Medical Center
- Angela Allen Duck, MSN, RN, PhD candidate, University of Mississippi Medical Center, School of Nursing; Louisiana I Raise the Rates program manager
- Frank G. Opelka, MD, executive vice-president for health care and medical education redesign, Louisiana State University System; associate medical director of the American College of Surgeons Division of Advocacy and Health Policy; chair of the American Medical Association (AMA)-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement
Arkansas I Raise the Rates leader
- S. Clark Fincher, MD, FACP, Arkansas Chapter Past Governor; practicing internist, Searcy Medical Center, Unity Health
National Champions
- Christine A. Sinsky, MD, FACP, vice president, professional satisfaction, AMA
- Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, MD, MACP, Past President of ACP; practicing general internist and adjunct associate professor of medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
CECity, Inc.
- Simone Karp, RPh, co-founder and chief business partner
Evaluation Partner: Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research
- Jill Marsteller, PhD, associate director, Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research
- Yea-Jen Hsu, PhD, MHA, senior research associate
- Jodi Segal, MD, MHP, co-director, Johns Hopkins Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness; associate director, Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research
- Albert W. Wu, MD, director, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research
ACP Chapter–Illinois Northern Region
- Marie T. Brown, MD, FACP, Illinois Northern Region Chapter Governor; associate professor, department of internal medicine, Rush University Medical Center