University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

GIM: Quality Evaluation Support Team (QUEST)

The Quality Evaluation Support Team (QUEST) is a Supplemental Funding (UPL) investment within the University of Colorado School of Medicine (CUSOM) aimed at supporting UPL project teams with their evaluation pursuits. The goals of QUEST are to collaborate with UPL funded projects on executing rigorous process and outcome evaluations, automating Epic© -based project metric data extraction, and serving as a partner for qualitative and quantitative pursuits.

QUEST is an eight-person team, led by Dr. Lisa Schilling and Dr. Brittney Fraumeni, consisting of experts from various realms of healthcare evaluation and quality improvement. Leveraging the team’s expertise, QUEST conducts mixed-methods evaluations of UPL projects with deliverables including highlight reports, academic dissemination, and one-page infographics.

QUEST works closely with the UPL administrative team at CU Medicine and the Interagency Agreement team at the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) to prioritize evaluations of projects that are of high-interest to the leaders and funders of this work.

If you have questions related to UPL, including discussing evaluation ideas or needing assistance with measurement development, please complete our short questionnaire and our team will reach out to you with answers or to schedule a brief intro meeting.

Dr. Lisa Schilling, MD, MSPH
QUEST Director

Lisa is a practicing board-certified internist and is also board-certified in clinical informatics. Dr. Schilling is the Associate Division Head for Research & Innovation in the Department of General Internal Medicine and the Medical Director of CU Medicine’s Office of Value Based Performance. Her research emphasis is on health informatics, where she focuses on distributed data network infrastructures, the data quality lifecycle, and sharable and interoperable technologies.

Brittney Fraumeni, PhD
QUEST Program Manager

Brittney is a psychology researcher turned healthcare evaluator. In her previous work with school-based behavioral health interventions for adolescents, she honed her mixed-method expertise, including focus group and survey instrument development and qualitative analysis, as well as her skills with project and program management. Dr. Fraumeni is a Research Instructor in the Department of General Internal Medicine, where she is also a member of GIM’s Qualitative Core.