Quality and Safety Summit, 2026

Patient Safety Awareness Week and Quality and Safety Summit was held from April 13 to 17, 2026 at University of Iowa Health Care, focusing on the positive work being done in the area of quality assurance and patient safety. The week-long event included a keynote speaker, lectures and discussions, and a poster session.

For the poster session, the call for abstracts included requested innovations in quality improvement, patient safety projects, educational innovations, and research related to quality and safety. More than 35 posters were accepted to the event, with 12 from Internal Medicine faculty, staff, and resident and fellow physicians. The majority of the posters presented were by our residents.

Resident Posters

Nicholas Coffey, MD
Third-Year Resident (Medicine-Psychiatry)
A Retrospective Chart Review of Rapid Response and Code Blue Events on Adult Inpatient Psychiatry Units and Discussion of Preliminary Interventions

Jacob Heath, MD
Second-Year Resident
Improving Atrial Fibrillation Management and Electrophysiology Referrals

Aubri Larson, MD
Second-Year Resident
Reducing Polypharmacy in Veterans through Targeted Geriatric Referrals

Harsha Nalam, MD
First-Year Resident
Improving Advanced Care Planning Documentation in an Internal Medicine Resident Clinic

Megan Napier, MD
Third-Year Resident (Medicine-Psychiatry)
1. Improving Evaluation of First-Episode Psychosis Through a Structured Order Set and Educational Intervention
2. Enhancing Evidence-Based Prescribing: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Increase Metformin Use in Patients at Risk for Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain

Ryan Torelli, MD
First-Year Resident
Increasing Prescribing of Lipid Lowering Therapies in Veterans with ASCVD

Quinn Vatland, MD
Third-Year Resident
Increasing Utilization of Pulmonary Function Testing for Patients Prescribed Albuterol

Patrick Vosters, MD
Second-Year Resident
OSA Screening in the IRL GIM Y-Week A Population

Faculty, Staff, and Fellow Posters

Carly Kuehn, MD, MME
Clinical Associate Professor (Hospital Medicine)
Faculty Award Winning poster:
Repetitive No More: Tailoring Quality Improvement Curriculum to Residency Training Level

Stacey Hockett Sherlock, MAA
Clinical Trials Research Specialist
Identifying Opportunities to Improve Post Urology Postoperative Care Within the Veterans Health Administration