DOM Faculty Members Awarded the IHQSE CEPS Grant
The IHQSE Clinical Effectiveness & Patient Safety (CEPS) Grant Program awards have been announced for AY22–23 and seven awards have been given to Department of Medicine faculty and trainees. The IHQSE CEPS Grant Program funds QI efforts aimed at improving patient outcomes and healthcare value. Please help us in congratulating the following awardees:
- Sridevi Pokala, MD (Gastroenterology & Hepatology Fellow)—Implementation of a Clinical Decision Support Tool to Improve Adherence Rates in Screening for Barrett’s Esophagus
- Dennis Jing Zhou Wang, MD (Gastroenterology & Hepatology Fellow)—Improving Evidence-based Clinical Documentation for Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Ambulatory GI Clinic Through Pre-Clinic My Health Connection Survey
- Lorna Allen, FNP-C, MSN, RN (Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases)—Standardizing the OPAT Discharge Process: Improving Transitions in Care
- Erin Bredenberg, MD (Assistant Professor, Hospital Medicine)—An Intervention to Expand Hepatitis C Treatment Among Hospitalized Patients with Substance Use Disorders with Linkage to Specialty Addiction Medicine Care at Discharge
- Paul Cannon, PA-C, MPH (Instructor, Hospital Medicine)—Improving Outcomes in Patients with Alcohol-associated Liver Disease (ALD) Admitted to University of Colorado Hospital Non-Hepatology Service Lines
- Hillary Landau, MD (Instructor, Hospital Medicine)—Duplicate Charts and the Inpatient Contact Move Process
- Hillary Lum, MD, PhD (Associate Professor, Geriatric Medicine)—Gait Speed Screening Initiative: To Identify Older Adults with Lower Functional Status at Risk of Falls