Thank you for a successful symposium!

Questions? Please contact us at implementation@vumc.org.

Symposium Wrap-up

This year, 130 attendees from across the US (and even globally!) joined our first 3-day virtual symposium. We hope you enjoyed the event!

We would like to thank all of the planning committee members, speakers, moderators, panelists, and poster presenters at this year’s event. We appreciated the opportunity to learn from your research experiences, and hope you can join us again next year.

Recordings of the Keynote and Panel Presentations

In case you missed the symposium sessions, recordings are available under the Presentations section of the CCQIR website. A VUMC netID is required to access the recordings. For those outside of VUMC, email implementation@vumc.org to request access.

Congratulations to the Poster Award Winners!

People's Choice Award for Best Poster

Lyndsay Nelson, PhD
"Developing an Implementation Strategy for a Text Message-delivered Diabetes Support Program in Community Health Centers"

Moderators' Choice Award for Best Poster (tie)

Rhodes Amaker, MMHC
"Reducing Unwarranted Variation in Care: Low Back Pain Care Path"

Sophia Kostelanetz, MD, MPH
"Healthcare Professionals' Perspectives on Universal Screening of Social Determinants of Health
in a Large Academic Medical Center: A Mixed-Methods Study"

Operational Partner Award

We are delighted to present the award for Outstanding Operational Partnership to Vanderbilt Quality, Safety, and Risk Prevention, whose mission is to equip and empower VUMC faculty and staff to offer care that is safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered. QSRP brings an essential element to a true Learning Healthcare System. In trying to “learn from what we do, and do what we learn,” partnerships and team science are critical. QSRP is uniquely poised with expertise in clinical effectiveness, data analytics, emergency preparedness, infection control, and more! In addition to their suite of initiatives, QSRP enriches and informs others. In collaboration with various research efforts, such as those undertaken by the LHS Platform group or CCQIR, there is the opportunity to synergistically examine processes, interventions, and outcomes across the enterprise and effect change. Collectively, we are all committed to improving the quality, safety, and value of care for our patients. This is the fabric of a Learning Healthcare System.

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Symposium Agenda

Keynote Speaker

Monday, November 16th | 12:00 - 1:00 pm CST

"Creating a Learning Health System: Strategies and Challenges"

Dr. Horwitz is director of the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science at NYU Langone Health, director of the Division of Healthcare Delivery Science in the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, tenured associate professor of population health and of medicine, and a practicing internist. Her work focuses on improving the safety and quality of healthcare delivery. She conducts federally-funded research on transitions in care; has developed quality measures for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; and leads the AHRQ-funded T32 Training Program in Population Health and Healthcare Delivery, and the Rapid Cycle RCT Lab. She was recently named an Emerging Leader by the National Academy of Medicine and is an elected fellow of the American Society of Clinical Investigation. Dr. Horwitz received her undergraduate degree in Social Studies from Harvard and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She then completed residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, NY and the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale. Dr. Horwitz was on faculty at Yale for 7 years before moving to NYU in 2014.

Follow Dr. Horwitz on Twitter @leorahorwitzmd

Moderated Panel Presentations

Monday, November 16th | 1:00 - 2:00 pm CST

Scale-up and Spread of Multidisciplinary Interventions | Panel Moderator – Cathy Ivory, PhD, RN-BC, RNC-OB 

• Meds to Beds Program | Amanda S. Mixon, MD, MS, MSPH, FHM 
• Penicillin Allergy De-labeling in Adults | Cosby Stone, Jr. MD, MPH 
• QI Initiatives in Primary Care |  Philip Cook, MHA 

Tuesday, November 17th | 12:00 - 1:00 pm CST

Rapid Implementation and Adaptation in Response to COVID-19 | Panel Moderator - Todd W. Rice, MD, MSCI

• Implementation of the COVID-Proning Trial | Edward Qian, MD
• Rapid Adoption of Telemedicine | David Charles, MD 
• Vanderbilt COVID-to-Home | Tara Horr, MD

Tuesday, November 17th | 1:00 - 2:00 pm CST

Tackling Substance Misuse: Implementing Prevention and Treatment Services | Panel Moderator - Carolyn Audet, PhD

• Providing OB services for Pregnant Women with Opioid Use Disorder | Jessica Young, MD, MPH
• Strategies to Increase Uptake of Proper Disposal of Left-Over Opioids | Amanda Stone, PhD
• Implementing Referrals from the ED and PASS for People with Substance Use Disorder to the Bridge Clinic for Treatment Services | Katie White, PhD, MD and David Marcovitz, MD

Virtual Poster Session

Wednesday, November 18th | 12:00 - 1:30 pm CST

Links to posters are below.