Academic institutions are invited to join the High Value Practice Academic Research Alliance. The success of this organization hinges on participation by a large number of academic medical centers. We currently have 100 academic center partners in the United States, Canada, Japan, Norway & Australia.
Membership Categories
- Institutional Membership requires approval by an institutional leader (i.e. Dean, President, CMO, etc).
- Departmental Membership requires approval by Department Chair. There is no membership fee.
Requirements of membership:
- Academic medical center or teaching hospital (medical school affiliation or GME training program)
- Signed agreement endorsed by institutional or departmental leadership
- Commitment to advance at least one value improvement initiative across your institution annually
- Participation in HVPAA surveys (performed every 2-3 year to gauge effectiveness)
Benefits of membership:
- Demonstrate to patients accountability for the value of the care we deliver and a commitment to creating a more sustainable health care model
- Experienced academic centers can expand their quality improvement initiatives on a national scale
- Less experienced centers are provided with guidance to safely and effectively improve practice
- Collaboration enables pooling of resources, expertise and data to develop appropriate use criteria, joint publications and best practice guidelines
- Opportunity to direct or participate in HVPAA working groups and co-direct conference workshops
- Member institutions’ faculty receive a discounted registration fee at the national conference
To register your medical center, please complete the HVPAA membership agreement and email signed copy to membership@hvpaa.org.
Specialties and subspecialties represented:
- Anesthesiology
- Cardiology
- Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Colorectal Surgery
- Diagnostic Radiology
- Emergency Medicine
- Family Medicine
- Gastroenterology
- Geriatrics
- Gynecologic Oncology
- Hospitalist Medicine
- Infectious Disease
- Internal Medicine
- Interventional Radiology
- Medicine and Pediatrics
- Microbiology
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Nuclear Medicine
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Otolaryngology
- Pathology
- Pediatrics
- Pediatric Critical Care
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine
- Pediatric Hospital Medicine
- Pediatric Radiology
- Psychiatry
- Radiation Oncology
- Surgery
- Urology
- Vascular Surgery
Providers of all specialties and subspecialties are needed! Specialties not currently represented include:
- Allergy and Immunology
- Dermatology
- Medical Genetics
- Neurologic Surgery
- Ophthalmology
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Plastic Surgery
- Preventive Medicine
- Sleep Medicine