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Dinner served at all evening sessions.
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For information on past sessions, please scroll to the bottom of this page.

Directions to BWH Deland Board Room, PBB4:

The Deland Board Room is located at 15 Francis Street on the BWH Campus. You will need to enter the hospital at the 45 Francis Street entrance, bear to the right, then go straight through the lobby past the valet parking desk. You will then make a right when you go through the opening in the hallway, and will continue walking until you see the overhead sign for Peter Bent Brigham 15 Francis Street. You will then take the second left (right before you reach the secuirty desk), and take the elevator to the fourth floor, The Deland Board Room will be on the left hand side when you exit the elevator.

Upcoming Centers of Expertise Sessions 2013

Patient Care Quality & Safety
with Elizabeth Mort, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President, MGH/MGPO Center for Quality and Safety; Assoc Chief Medical Officer MGH; Senior Medical Director, Partners HealthCare, Inc.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 5:30 - 7:00PM
MGH Trustees Room

Elizabeth Mort, MD, MPH is a practicing general internist with more than fifteen years of experience in clinical performance management and operational improvement activities in an Academic Medical Center and Integrated Delivery System setting. Dr. Mort currently holds the titles of Senior Vice President of Quality and Safety at the MGH and the MGPO as well as Associate Chief Medical Officer for the MGH. She also serves as the Senior Medical Director at Partners HealthCare, Inc (PHS). Dr. Mort has extensive experience in health care quality measurement, quality and safety improvement, managed care medical management strategies, pay for performance contracting and hospital operations. At MGH she oversees the Center for Quality & Safety and is responsible for high stakes quality and safety measurement and improvement work across a broad range of initiatives. In her current roles at PHS, she leads the care redesign efforts aimed at common episodic procedures and conditions. Dr. Mort also plays a lead role in contracting quality incentives, and is leading the quality measurement reporting for the public website at Partners.

Patient Care Quality & Safety RSVP: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/13_04_03_QS_CoE

Global & Humanitarian Health: "A Career in Global Health Research - is it sensible, possible and practical?"
with Pat Hibberd, MD, PhD, chief of the Division of Global Health for MassGeneral Hospital for Children
Monday, April 8, 2013, 6:00 - 7:30PM
MGH Bulfinch 222 Conference Room

An interactive session encouraging participation on the following topics - Why do Research in Global Health when there are so many other pressing needs? How to get started? How to keep going and what are the challenges?
Please bring your questions, comments and thoughts.

Patricia Hibberd, MD, PhD received her PhD degree in Epidemiology in 1978 from the University of Leicester in the UK and her MD degree from Harvard Medical School in 1986. After training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at MGH, she has led Clinical Research Programs at MGH, Children's Hospital and Tufts. Currently she is founding Chief of the new Division of Global Health at MGHfC, Professor of Pediatrics at HMS and Professor of Global Health at HSPH. She has a 20 year history of working on childhood pneumonia and neonatal sepsis with the WHO and other organizations. Currently she is PI of one of the 7 Global Network Grants from NICHD and continues to work in India on the prevention of preterm labor and emergency obstetric and neonatal care. She collaborates with engineers at MGH and MIT on developing cell phone “apps” and other low cost technology to help first level providers. In 2009, as recognition for her work in Global Health, Dr Hibberd was named one of the Paul G Rogers Society Ambassadors.

Career in Global Health Research RSVP: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/13_04_08_GH_CoE

Research: "Physician Investigators: Navigating the Balance between Research & Clinical Practice"
with Dennis Ausiello, MD, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Medicine at MGH, and Chief Scientific Officer of Partners Healthcare
Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 6:00 - 7:30PM
MGH Trustees Room

An interactive "group mentoring session" to cover researcher-clinician career development: managing mentor relationships through one's research career, funding, evaluating a job offer's research-clinician balance, and more.

Dennis A. Ausiello, MD is the Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Chief Scientific Officer of Partners Healthcare. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He has made a substantial contribution to knowledge of epithelial biology in the areas of membrane protein trafficking, ion channel regulation and signal transduction. He has published numerous articles, book chapters, and textbooks and currently serves as the co-editor of Cecil's Textbook of Medicine, now in its 23rd edition. A nationally recognized leader in academic medicine, Dr. Ausiello was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science in 1999 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. He has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Boston Globe on health subjects, including human genetics, clinical trials, and the relationship between the academy and industry. Dr. Ausiello served as Chief of the MGH Renal Unit and oversaw its development into one of the most sought after research and training programs in the world. As Chief of Medicine at MGH, a position he has held since 1996, he leads one of the strongest Departments of Medicine in the country with a clinical, research and education budget exceeding $600 million annually. He is closely involved with Partners HealthCare, linking the resources of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to provide comprehensive health care.

Physician Investigators MGH RSVP: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/13_04_09_Research_CoE

Research: "Physician Investigators: Navigating the Balance between Research & Clinical Practice"
with Jeffrey Golden, MD, Chief of Pathology at BWH and Ramzi S. Cotran Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 6:00-7:30PM
BWH Deland Room

Jeffrey Golden, MD is the Ramzi S. Cotran Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and Chair of the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He received his undergraduate degree from University of California, San Diego and his medical degree from University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Golden is a physician-scientist who spends 30% effort running a basic and translational neuroscience research laboratory and 70% effort administratively as the chair of the Pathology Department at the Brigham and Women’s hospital, Harvard Medical School and as a neuropathologist. The focus of the laboratory work is elucidating the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying differentiation and migration of neurons in the mammalian forebrain, with a particular interest in interneurons and have been studying various genes important for their proliferation, migration and differentiation. This work is aimed at understanding the molecular pathogenesis of neurocognitive disorders such as epilepsy, intellectual disabilities and autism.

Physician Investigators BWH RSVP: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/13_04_17_Research_CoE

Medical Education
Thomas Nasca, MD, MACP, CEO of ACGME
Thursday, April 25, 2013, 11:30 - 12:30PM
MGH Trustees Room

An informal discussion over lunch with the CEO of ACGME.

Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP has been Chief Executive Officer of the ACGME since December 2007. Dr. Nasca is a former Dean of the Jefferson College of Medicine and has held numerous other positions in medical education, including Internal Medicine Program Director, President of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, Chair of the ACGME's RRC for Internal Medicine, and a member of HHS’ Council on Graduate Medical Education. His professional interests include the impact of medical education on health care in the United States, the role of medical education in the development of virtuous physician behaviors, and the role of U.S. medical educators in helping to improve medical education in developing countries.

Medical Education RSVP: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/13_04_25_MedEd_CoE