BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Common missteps with quality improvement interventions (and how yo u can avoid them) - Dr Kaveh Shojania\, Editor-in-Chief\, BMJ Quality & \; Safety DTSTART:20180124T130000Z DTEND:20180124T140000Z UID:TALK98284@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Helen Gardner DESCRIPTION:*Join THIS Institute for a talk by Dr Kaveh Shojania MD\, Edit or-in-Chief of BMJ Quality and Safety*\, who will discuss quality improvem ent interventions and lessons for clinicians and researchers on Wednesday 24 January\, 1300 - 1400. *No bookings are required\, all welcome.*\n\nDr. Shojania is a hospital-based general internist and researcher at Sunnybro ok Health Sciences Centre and the University of Toronto\, where he is also a Vice Chair in the Department of Medicine and directs the Centre for Qua lity Improvement and Patient Safety (C-QuIPS).\n\nDr. Shojania’s researc h focuses on identifying and further developing effective strategies for a chieving improved quality of care. He has more than 150 publications index ed in Medline\, including papers in leading journals such as NEJM\, JAMA\, and the Lancet. Google Scholar lists approximately 14\,000 citations to h is work for an h-index of 56.. Dr. Shojania held a Canada Research Chair i n Patient Safety and Quality Improvement from 2004-2013. He has produced m ultiple evidence reports and helped build two websites for the US Agency f or Healthcare Research and Quality\, such as www.PSNet.ahrq.gov which rece ives approximately 3 million visits a year. For this and other work\, Dr. Shojania shared one of the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety Awards (2004) from the US Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum for work in pa tient safety that has had an impact on a national level. In January 2011\, Dr. Shojania became editor-in-chief of BMJ Quality and Safety (part of th e British Medical Journal Publishing Group)\, which has since become the h ighest impact journal in the field of health care quality\, as well as the broader fields of health services research and health policy.\n\nPlease c ontact Helen Gardner (helen.gardner@thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk) for any furth er information on the talk.\n\nWe look forward to seeing you there.\n LOCATION:Clifford Albutt Lecture theatre\, Clinical School END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR