Quality Improvement vs. Research: Regulatory Issues in Improvement Science
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
2:00-3:00 pm EDT
Featured Presenter: Christine A. Goeschel, ScD, MPA, MPS, RN, FAAN
Dr. Goeschel is the Director of Strategic Development and Research Initiatives for The Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, and Co-Director of an AHRQ ACTION II research partnership. She is an Assistant Professor in the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, (Anesthesiology and Critical Care), Nursing (Health System Outcomes,) and Public Health (Health Policy and Management). Dr. Goeschel teaches courses on quality and patient safety, and is a frequent speaker both nationally and internationally, with a particular interest in cultivating clinical and administrative leadership to improving the science of health care delivery.
Dr. Goeschel has significant health care leadership experience, first as a critical care nurse, then as a hospital executive, and more recently as the developer and first leader of the Keystone Center at the Michigan Health & Hospital Association where she collaborated with Dr. Peter Pronovost on groundbreaking efforts to reduce bloodstream infections in intensive care units in Michigan. She joined Dr. Pronovost’s research team at Johns Hopkins in 2006, and has contributed to large scale ICU improvement projects in Spain, England, and Peru and to an AHRQ-funded initiative that is spreading the Hopkins bloodstream infection program to every state in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.