Sunday, October 8, 2017
12:00-5:00 pm Registration
3:00-11:00 pm Poster viewing
5:00-7:00 pm Reception
Monday, October 9, 2017
6:30-7:45 am Registration, breakfast and poster viewing
7:45-8:00 am Welcome
- Roy Ziegelstein, MD, FACP
- Vice Dean for Education, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
8:00-8:30 am Keynote Address
- Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD
- Becoming a High Reliability Organization
8:30-10:00 am Imaging Tests and Cardiac Diagnostics
- 8:30-9:00 High value expert, Richard Duszak, MD, FACR:
- High Value Imaging: Perspectives from a Contrarian Radiologist
- 9:00-9:15 Curtailing Emergency Department Utilization of Rib Series Examinations: Reflections on a Provider Behavior Modification Initiative
- Kalen Riley, MD, IU Health, Indiana University
- 9:15-9:30 Hi-value Care: The Impact of Education on Guideline-based Evaluation of Syncope at Greenwich Hospital
- Steven Smith, MD, Greenwich Hospital Internal Medicine Residency
- 9:30-9:45 Reducing Repeat Echocardiograms with an Electronic Medical Record Intervention
- Kerrilynn Carney, MD, NYU Langone Health
- 9:55-10:00 The Illusion of Safety: An Effective Approach To Resident Over-Utilization of Telemetry
- Calvin Kagan, MD, Johns Hopkins Hospital
10:00-10:15 am Coffee Break
10:15-11:45 am Laboratory Tests
- 10:15-10:45 High value expert, Chris Moriates, MD
- Building Bridges to High Value Care
- 10:45-11:00 Better Utilization of Lab Testing to Reduce Medical Costs; A Quality Improvement Project to Reduce BMP and CBC Utilization Among Medical Residents at Mount Carmel West
- Noah Hagan, DO, Mount Internal Medicine Residency Program
- 11:00-11:15 The Effectiveness of an Awareness Intervention in Decreasing Unnecessary Lab Orders
- Samuel Lindner, MD, Duke University Medical Center
- 11:15-11:30 Eliminating the Use of Fecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT) in Emergency Room and Hospitalized Patients
- Zhouwen Tang, MD, UT Southwestern Medical Center
- 11:30-11:45 Inpatient Reference Lab Reduction Project
- Nicole Adler, MD, NYU Langone Health
11:45am-12:45 pm Lunch and poster viewing
12:45-3:15 pm Procedures and Treatments
- 12:45-1:15 High value expert, Vikas Saini, MD
- Providing the Right Care: A Systematic Framework
- 1:15-1:30 A Patient Centered Strategy to Minimize Intravenous Therapy
- Alicia Cowley, MD, NYU Langone Health
- 1:30-1:45 Stewardship Allergy Assessment Team Implements Inpatient Penicillin Skin Testing Evaluation Program
- Renee Kleris, MD, Duke University Medical Center
- 1:45-2:00 Optimizing utilization of vascular access catheters at a large safety net hospital
- Nirja Mehta, BS, UT Southwestern Medical Center
- 2:00-2:15 Implementation of Evidence-based Appropriateness Guidelines for Spine Pain Injection for Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain
- Lubdha Shah, MD, University of Utah
- 2:15-2:30 A Comprehensive Patient Blood Management Program Decreases Blood Utilization and Improves Outcomes in Orthopaedic Surgery Patients
- Raj Amin, MD, Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 2:30-2:45 Guiding the Multidisciplinary Management of Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage Patients
- Jessica Lovett, BS, NYU Langone Health
- 2:45-3:00 Improving Quality while Decreasing Length of Stay and Cost per case for Bariatric Surgery Patients
- Dawn Stepnowski DNP, APN-C, Cooper University Health Care
- 3:00-3:15 Optimizing use of intravenous proton pump inhibitors in hospitalized patients
- Arjun Gupta, MD, UT Southwestern Medical Center
3:15-3:30 pm Coffee Break
3:30-4:00 pm Distinguished Professor
- Rita Redberg, MD, Msc
- How Less Health Care Can be Better for You: Examples from Internal Medicine
4:00-6:00 pm Physician Behavioral Modification and Informatics
- 4:00-4:30 High value expert, Douglas Hough, PhD
- Incentives and Physician Behavioral Modification
- 4:30-4:45 Providing Care in Tandem: Supporting Psychiatric Patients with Complex Medical Co-morbidities
- Lori Aavik, LMHNP and Frank Volpicelli, MD, NYU Langone Health
- 4:45-5:00 Go with the flow! The utilization of a process flowchart in analyzing the discharge medication reconciliation process in a large academic medical center
- Meera Subash, MD, University of California San Diego
- 5:00-5:15 The Voice of Our Patients: Post discharge issues identified through a Call-Back Program
- Patricia Ojeda, MD, Indiana University, Methodist Hospital
- 5:15-5:30 30 Day Readmission Prevention Initiatives – A Single Orthopaedic University Hospital’s Experience
- Barkha Gurbani, MD, University of Texas Medical Branch
- 5:30-5:45 The Effect of a mEWS Alert System Quality Improvement Project on the Detection of Sepsis at an Academic Hospital
- Emilie Ungricht, University of Utah Bioengineering Department
- 5:45-6:00 Time Out! Lack of effect of a decision support tool on rates of antibiotic de-escalation
- Greg Seymann, MD, University of California, San Diego
Complete list of podium and poster presentations can be viewed here.
Presentation details:
- Abstract presentation instructions
- Poster viewing begins Sunday, Oct 8th at 11 am.
- Welcome reception with poster presenters Sunday, Oct 8th from 5-7 pm.
- Speaker presentations are 20 minutes with 10 minute Q&A.
- Podium abstract presentations are 8 minutes with 5 minutes Q&A.
- Podium session includes unpublished projects only.
- Educational curricula will be presented in poster form.
