Patient Safety Awareness Week was held from April 15 to 19, 2024 at University of Iowa Health Care, focusing on the positive work being done in the area of quality assurance and patient safety. On Tuesday, April 16, the annual Quality and Safety Symposium was held, including a keynote speaker, lectures and discussions, and a poster session.
For the poster session, the call for abstracts included requested innovations on quality improvement, patient safety projects, educational innovations, and research related to quality and safety. Sixty posters were accepted to the event, with seven from Internal Medicine faculty, staff, and resident and fellow physicians. The majority of the posters presented were by our residents.
Resident posters
Adam Blaine, MD
Second-year resident
Improving SGLT2I prescribing in resident continuity clinic for heart failure patients
Charles “Dylan” Miks, MD
First-year resident
Improving Rates of Colorectal Cancer Screening through FIT Testing in Primary Care at the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Hospital
Ashten Sherman, MD
Second-year resident
Improving Lung Cancer Screening in Veterans Through Increasing Enrollment in the Lung Cancer Screening Program at the Iowa City VA
Mackenzie Walhof, MD
Second-year resident
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccinations at Iowa City VA (ICVA)
Kathie Zhang, MD
Chief Resident, ICVA
Improving diabetic kidney disease screening rates in resident-run primary care clinic
Fellow and faculty posters
Christina Charis-Donelson, MD
IRL GEN MED Medicare Annual Wellness Initiative FY2024
Bharat Kumar, MD, MME
Reducing Patient-Clinician Decisional Conflict in Rheumatology Clinics through Shared Decision-Making Worksheets
Melissa Swee, MD, MME
Enhancing Nephrology Care Access: Development and Implementation of a Telenephrology Dashboard Through Human-Centered Design
