BWH Housestaff Quality & Safety Council
"Residents and fellows must play a critical role in improving patient safety and healthcare quality at our institutions. The skills they learn and apply during training to improve patient safety and healthcare quality will benefit patients they care for now as well as those they care for in the future." - Dr. John Co, MD, MPH, GME Director
Any BWH Resident or Fellow who has an interest in quality improvement can join us at the HQSC meetings, offer suggestions on new initiatives to pursue, or find out more about housestaff QI resources by emailing us. The HQSC works closely with the BWH Directors of Q&S Committee and BWH Q&S leadership on hospital-wide initiatives to improve patient safety and the quality of care at BWH. Funding for housestaff-led Q&S projects is also available through the Partners Healthcare Centers of Expertise.
HQSC Leadership and Membership
The HQSC is comprised of housestaff (selected through an application process) representing several residency/fellowship programs that meet and work together on council activities.
Chair: Bryan Iorgulescu, MD, Pathology
Co-chairs:
Andrew Pisansky, MD, Anesthesiology
Geoffrey Raynor, MD, Psychiatry
Advisor: John Co, MD, MPH, Director, Graduate Medical Education; Director, Outpatient Quality and Safety, MGH Pediatric Medical Services
Members:
Anesthesiology: Caroline Buric and David Buric
Dermatology: Saami Khalifian
Emergency Medicine: Stephen Dorner and Paul Jansson
Internal Medicine: Sarah Brown and Ben Rome
Medicine/Pediatrics: Melissa Lechner
Neurosurgery: Ian Tafel and Pablo Valdes Quevedo
Obstetrics & Gynecology: Roni Nitecki and Maren Shapiro
Orthopaedic Surgery: Caleb Yeung
Pathology: Michael Mina
Radiology: Michael T. Caton and Khanant Desai
Surgery: Peter Najjar
Urology: Abe Chiang
BWH Quality and Safety Contacts
| Contact Name | Department |
|---|---|
| Jennifer Beloff | Director, Quality |
| Ed Cibas | Lab-Anatomic Pathology |
| Christian Dankers | Quality/Safety |
| Sonali Desai | Medicine |
| Barbara Dworetzky | Neurology |
| Karen Fiumara | Director, Patient Safety |
| David Frank | Medicine-Oncology |
| William Gormley | Neurosurgery |
| Nadia Huancahuari | Emergency Medicine |
| Julian Bryan Iorgulescu | Quality Safety Resident Member |
| Allen Kachalia | Chief Quality Officer |
| Nina Kapoor | Radiology |
| David Kroll | Psychiatry |
| Sayeed Malek | Transplant |
| Peter Najjar | Quality/Safety Fellow |
| Luigi Nascimben | Anesthesia |
| Nneka Nzegwu | Newborn |
| Dennis Orgill | Surgery |
| Athena Petrides | Pathology |
| Marc Pimentel | Quality/Safety Fellow |
| Geoffrey Raynor | Patient Safety Resident Member |
| Julian Robinson | OB/GYN |
| Chris Roy | Medicine-GME |
| Jay Schuur | Emergency Medicine |
| Benjamin Scirica | Medicine-Cardiology |
| Atul Shinagare | Radiology |
| Alice Watson | Dermatology |
| Michael Weaver | Orthopaedics |
| Paige Wickner | Allergy-Immunology |
Additional Resources
Partners Center of Expertise in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety
More information can be found at the following link on Partners-wide initiatives exist, complete with funding opportunities for projects and educational events.
Harvard Medical School Fellowship in Patient Safety and Quality
For formal training in QI, Harvard Medical school has developed a 2 year fellowship funded by CRICO/Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institution, whose curriculum spans many Harvard institutions, including BWH, MGH, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston Children’s, and Partners Healthcare.
The page was updated on 3/27/19.