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Sixth Annual 2007 Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice Quality and Safety |
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General Information Advanced Studies in EBP: Graduate, Pre & Post-Doctoral, Post Conference Formal graduate coursework in evidence-based practice is offered in conjunction with the 2007 Summer Institute. Coursework is provided through The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Significant portions of the coursework are completed as distance education. Attendance at the Institute is requisite and students pay course tuition. Course enrollment is limited and instructor permission for enrollment is required. Advanced studies are also offered as a post conference. To learn more about these courses, call or email Dr. Kathleen Stevens at (210) 567-1480; email at acestar@uthscsa.edu. Future Institutes In response to healthcare providers' need for greater EBP skills, we have designed a long range plan for coordinated continuing education programming via annual evidence-based practice institutes. Previous participants will enjoy building EBP skills through the new content presented each year. Information about past and future Institutes is available on the web site [http://www.acestar.uthscsa.edu]. Lectureships for The 2007 Summer Institute
VA Lectureship Timothy P. Shea, FACHE, Director and Chief Executive Officer, South Texas Veterans Healthcare System, presenting the Institute keynote, Glimpses of the Future of Quality and Safety, receives the 2007 VA Lectureship. Resources are requisite to effecting excellence in patient care: As a healthcare executive, Mr. Shea is at the helm of resource management for quality and safety in a healthcare system that cares for over 4.1 million veterans, the VA Healthcare System. As a seasoned leader in the VA system, he is part of the effort that keeps VA patient satisfaction scores in the lead. The VA Lectureship is awarded to Mr. Shea in recognition of his key role in managing resources for quality and safety of care.
Methodist Healthcare System Lectureship Dennis S. O'Leary, MD, presenting The Mandate for Quality & Safety, receives the 2007 Methodist Healthcare System Lectureship. President of The Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO) for over 20 years, he has led The Joint Commission on the front lines of quality and safety for over 18,000 organizations. Dr. O'Leary describes The Joint Commission as an "effector organization-we make things happen." The Methodist Healthcare System Lectureship is awarded to Dr. O'Leary for his extraordinary leadership in setting state-of-the-art standards that enhance quality across the entire healthcare system.
ACE Lectureship Jeremy Grimshaw, MBChB, PhD, FRCGP, Professor and Director, Clinical Epidemiology Program of the Ottawa Health Research Institute, University of Ottawa, presenting What We Know About Changing Organizations and Provider Behavior, receives the 2007 ACE Lectureship. As Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organization of Care (EPOC) group and Canadian Research Chair in Health Knowledge Transfer and Uptake, he is globally recognized as the consummate knowledge worker and master of evidence on organizational and health provider behavior change. The ACE Lectureship is awarded to Dr. Grimshaw in recognition of the vital connection he makes between research evidence and practice. |
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