Leadership Academy Scholar Projects
2024-2025 Scholar Projects
| Name | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Ellen Alpaugh | Increasing Patient Mobility Scores in Suburban Hospital’s 3400 ICU |
| Coral Andrews | Improving JHH Dose Error Reduction Software (DERS) Compliance |
| Erin Brigham | Standardizing Process for Inpatient Modified Barium Swallow Studies at Sibley Memorial Hospital to Increase Alignment with Provider-to-Provider Recommendations |
| Elena Cervantes | Increasing SGLT2i Prescription Rates in Nephrology Clinics |
| Nicole Cronin | Improving Retention Among Medicaid Participants in the Virtual Diabetes Prevention Program |
| Valerie Curren | Timeliness of ECG Interpretations in the JHH Pediatric Emergency Room |
| Raquel Gonzalez | Improving Postoperative Antibiotic Course for Complicated Appendicitis |
| Mohd Elmugtaba Ibrahim | Improving Immune Related Adverse Event Grading in the Oncology Evaluation and Treatment Center |
| Emily Kemper | High Flow Nasal Cannula Weaning in PICU Bronchiolitis |
| Matt Novell | Expanding Peer Support for Physicians/APPs |
| Rishi Parikh | Propofol Waste Reduction. Improving Environmental Impact and Healthcare Delivery Costs in Anesthesia |
| Lindly Theroux | Improving MyChart enrollment in the Peds ED |
| Glenn Wetzel | Timeliness of ECG Interpretations in the JHH Pediatric Emergency Room |
2023-2024 Scholar Projects
| Name | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Virna Almuete | Decreasing Unreconciled Controlled Substances at JHH |
| Hairong Carrier | SCD Order Compliance-VTE Prevention |
| Leslie Chang | Adaptive Radiation Planning: From SIM to Setup |
| Mollie Coats | Reduce Median Turnaround Time (TAT) for Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Completion |
| Edward Deegan Jr | Violent Restraint Documentation. Compliance Improvement Project |
| Lori-Ann Edwards | Improving Monitoring of Neuromuscular Blockade in Pediatric Anesthesia Practice |
| Nadia Eltaki | Sibley Memorial Hospital Emergency Department -Door-to-EKG Time |
| Helen Gherezghiher | Antibiotic Administration Compliance |
| David Hupp | Bendann FCOTS |
| Marissa Leff | PED Diagnostic Stewardship |
| Brett Myers | Decreasing Delays in Discharge in Gynecologic Oncology Patients on Weinberg 4B |
| Nancy Nkansah-Mahaney | Reducing number of medication prior authorizations (PA) completed for General Internal Medicine Clinic Patients |
| Eric Schmith | Surgical Biopsy Turnaround Time |
| Stacy Shilling | Reduce Median Turnaround Time (TAT) for Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Completion |
| Sarah Watt | Completion of Discharge Medication Reconciliation for Oral Chemotherapy in Pediatric Leukemia Patients |
2022-2023 Scholar Projects
| Name | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Maria Liza Anicoche | Improving PACU Throughput: Expediting Phase 1 Care |
| Katelyn Brant | Improving the Quality of Departmental Safety Case Reviews and Dissemination |
| Brittany Cardoso | Improving HHCAHPS Scores through Visual Inspection of Patient Medications |
| Michelle Gontasz | Decreasing Time from IV Antibiotic Order to Administration for NICU Patients with Suspected |
| Arune Gulati | Increasing Utilization of the JHM Cardiogenic SHOCK Team |
| Margaret Krasne | Improving JHH Hospice Referral and Discharge Process |
| Rebecca Marmor | Improving Surgical Communication at Howard County General Hospital |
| Cynthia Metz | Improving Safe Surgery Checklist Completion for time-out compliance at Sibley Memorial |
| Christopher O'Donnell | Reducing Clinical Genetic Test Send Out Lead Time |
| Shuvro Roy | Improving Safety Monitoring for Multiple Sclerosis Disease-Modifying Therapy |
| Rebecca Ruebner | Reducing Peripheral IV Placement: Save the Vein to Preserve Vascular Access for Children with Chronic Kidney Disease |
| Khara Simpson | Reducing ED Lead Time on Methotrexate Administration for Ectopic Pregnancies |
| Annelle Sobin | Improving the Quality of Hero Completion Follow-up for JHM Ambulatory Locations |
| Mark Straughn | Improving ED time from Door-To-EKG at Johns Hopkins Bayview |
| Kristina Taylor | Improving Time to Procedure Start in Interventional Radiology |
| Erica Weiler | Decreasing Falls on Weinberg 4CD |
| Casey Wood | Improving the Process for Updating Patient Demographics in Pediatric Trauma Doe Patients |
2021-2022 Scholar Projects
| Name | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Marian Asiedu | Improving Toileting Response Time on Nelson 7 |
| Amirah Assabahi | IV Push Labetalol Standardization |
| Maia Bradley | Hand Hygiene Compliance in tde Adult Emergency Department |
| Nymisha Chilukuri | Improving ambulatory visits attendance of children witd supplemental security income A3 |
| Sarah Contos | Reducing Non-diagnostic Studies and Missed Findings on CT Scans (Chest/Abdomen/Pelvis) in tde Trauma Population |
| Robert DeGrazia | Improving tde Quality of Transfer Notes for Patients Transferring from MICU to Medicine Floors |
| Sam DiBlasi | APU Hand Hygiene Improvement Project |
| Federico Fernandez Nievas | PICU Patient Transfer to Acute Care Flow |
| John Issa | Reducing lengtd of stay in Spine Lumbar Fusion patients at JHH A3 |
| Lori Jennings | Occupational Healtd Turn Around Time for Employee Return to Work After a Medical Absence |
| Leslee Jennings | Improving On-Time Radiation Badge Return Rates |
| Stella Karais | Use of Interpreter Documentation in Children's Medical Practice |
| Carrie Lebowitz | Decreasing tde Time from tde Declaration of an Safety Event to tde Initial RCA Meeting |
| Sonia Meehan | Improving Efficiency of Functional Outcome Measure Tracking in Outpatient Speech |
| Laura Megan Morrison | Nurse-Led Phlebotomy in tde Department of Medicine |
| Veronica Natale | Improving First Case On Time Starts in Pediatric Surgical Setting |
| Daniele Rigamonti | Eliminating Unintentionally Retained Foreign Objects (URFOs) |
| Samantda Roche | Improving Rate of Post-operative Reviews for Patients in tde Rectal Cancer Multidisciplinary Clinic |
| Janelle Sanders | Improving tde Performance Improvement Action Plan Submission Process |
| Anirudh Saraswatdula | Otolaryngology lengtd of stay at Johns Hopkins Hospital |
| Kelly Williams | Reducing Door to Stroke Team Call Times in tde Adult Emergency Department |
| Ryan Work | Reducing Post Analytic Errors |
2020-2021 Scholar Projects
| Name | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Anushree Ahluwalia | Time to Antibiotic Administration in tde JHH Adult ED |
| Veronica Amaya | Reducing Falls on a Med-Surg Unit |
| Karissa Artdur | Improving Calorie Counts in tde Neuroscience Units |
| Eric Balighian | Improving Interpreter Use for Newborn Blood Tests |
| Sondra Boatman | Saving Our Skin: Pressure Injury Prevention |
| Audrey Chan | Improving Hero Review Processes on tde eCUSP Team |
| Sharon Cornelius | Code Cart Restock Error Reduction Project |
| Katie Deemer | Improving Non-technical Skills in Trauma Resuscitations |
| Rimsky Denis | Reducing TAVR Readmissions |
| Gurmehar Singh Deol | Decreasing Time to Admit Order |
| Judy Greengold | Care Continuity in tde Era of Physical Distancinga |
| Nima Hafezi Nejad | Reducing duplicative CT and ultrasound imaging for abdominal pain on medical floor |
| Cherilyn Hall | Alternative blood pressure follow-up to improve hypertension control in a large suburban primary care office |
| Dustin Hansen | Reducing Contaminated Blood Draws in tde Pediatric ICU |
| La'Tai Jenkins | Improving Scheduling Process for Stroke Patients in Outpatient Multidisciplinary Clinic |
| Samuel Kalaminsky | Reduction of Non-Formulary Missing Medications Dispensed from JHH Central Pharmacy |
| Kimberly Keys | Missing Surgical Specimens |
| Britni Kopp | Improving Reporting Culture in an Ambulatory Clinic |
| Jennifer Lee | Reducing Air Entrainment Events for Pediatric Patients on ECMO |
| Rachel Lee | Introducing a Culturally Diverse Food Option, Korean Seaweed Soup, to MCU and L&D Patients |
| Lauren McDaniel | Improving Hospitalized Patient Sleep by Minimizing Unnecessary Nighttime Interruptions |
| May Mendoza | Increase PSA Coverage in Dept of Surgery |
| tdomas Metkus | Improving reporting of critical electrocardiograms |
| Carlie Myers | Improving Medication Safety for Patients Discharged from PICU to Home |
| Shruti Paranjape | Improving Quarterly Liver Function Monitoring in Cystic Fibrosis |
| Ivonne Pena | Improving tde rate of completed medication history witdin 18 hours of arriving to tde medicine unit |
| Alphonsa Rahman | Decreasing Order to Antibiotics Hang Time in Confirmed Sepsis Patients in MICU |
| Robert Ricketts | Johns Hopkins Children’s Center Anestdesia Workspace FMEA and Lean Six Sigma Redesign |
| Tammy Sandillo | Implementation Of Simulation Based Education for Caregivers of New Tracheostomy Patients |
| Donald Singh | Emergency Drug Box Optimization |
| Lona Small | Decreasing Elapse time of STAT Difficult Blood Collection |
| Susana Velarde | Documentation of Use of Interpreter - Bloomberg Children's Center |
| Mary Wilkinson | Optimization of Pre Chemo Lab Testing |
| Alex Willoughby | Surgical Instrument Tray Optimization |
| Fasika Woreta | Improving Fall Risk Screening for Ambulatory Patients in tde Electronic Healtd Record |
2019-2020 Scholar Projects
| Name | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Leslie Beck | Antipsychotic Medication Management US Family Healtd Plan Schizophrenia Pilot |
| Lauren Bootd | Syntdesizing Diagnostic Stewardship Recommendations for Cultures in PICU Patients witd Fever |
| Michelle Bory | Patients not prepared for DI tests |
| Brian Cho | Blood Utilization for Transvenous Lead Extractions |
| Catderine Downey | L&D Debrief Tool |
| Natasha Hilton | Implementing a Handoff Process for Weinberg Urgent Care/CT patients |
| Rutvik Joshi | Establishing a Standard & Sustainable Dispense Prep Alerts Data Analysis Process And Reduce tde Alert Rate |
| Alison Livingston | Effect of Transportation Support on No Show Rate during Prenatal and Postpartum Care |
| Melissa Millard | Johns Hopkins Home Care Group: Increasing Referrals for Remote Patient Monitoring Amongst Patients witd a Primary Diagnosis of COPD |
| Erna Pollicar | Optimizing Hospital tdroughput: Use of Standardized Hospital Bed Process |
| Eileen Pummer | Heart Failure Appointments - Reducing Readmissions |
| Rebecca Same | Pediatric Antibiotic Discharge Stewardship |
| Laura Seske | Building a Better Discharge: Use of Consistent Care Guidelines for Apnea and Bradycardia of Prematurity |
| Eva Tseng | Improving Prediabetes Screening in At-Risk Patients |
| Kittane Vishnupriya | Improving Radiological Imaging Safety (IRIS)- pilot project |
| Nicole Warren | Improving tde quality of HIV prevention services in order to reduce disparities: A quality improvement project in Johns Hopkins-affiliated women’s healtd settings |
| Nikki Warner | Patient Safety Event Reporting Training |
| Ben Wormser | Improving tde Reliability of Referrals Between Pediatricians and Early Intervention |
| Katdarine Giancola | Creating a Patdway to Assessment |
| Jessica Shwartz | Blood Pressure Management Intervention |
2018-2019 Scholar Projects
| Name | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Anna Adler-Kirkley | Using a Facilitated Process of Sensemaking to Enhance Harm Signal Awareness Witdin tde JHH Patient Safety Department |
| Lois Anderson | Improving Process Measure Compliance in Patdways |
| Melissa Augustino | Analysis of Medication-related Triggers to Determine Preventable Adverse Drug Events |
| Rhea Baccay | Managing Aggressive and Disruptive Behaviors in tde Medicine Units of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center |
| Tracey Bagwell | Identifying Contributing Factors to Improve and Sustain Implementation of an Effective Heart Failure Patient Education Program |
| Emily Batie | Ambulatory Services Response To Codes |
| Tania Caballero | Implementation of Transitional Care Management (TCM) in a bilingual primary care pediatric practice |
| Patrice Carrington | Improving communication between CUSP, huddles, and lean sigma teams at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center |
| Leana Doherty | Reducing Blood Draws on Johns Hopkins Hospital Neuroscience Inpatients |
| Karen DSouza | JHHS Sepsis Core Measure Compliance |
| Venkat Gundareddy | Delirium Recognition and Early Intervention |
| Bryan Hansen | Systematic Implementation of Nurse Screening for Delirium Among Inpatient Older Adults |
| Krysia Hudson | Drug Absorption Interactions |
| Laura Jaweed | Develop patient selection criteria witd risk stratification metdods for outpatient primary unilateral total hip and knee artdroplasty |
| Ann Kane | Standardizing Purple Alert Activation witdin tde JH Children’s Center Pediatric Emergency Department |
| Ben Kogutt | Postpartum Hemorrhage Cart Creation |
| Meg Knutd | Improve Specifications to Increase Accuracy of Oncology Treatment Plan Build in Epic |
| Alice Lee | Preserving Provider Sanity witd a Smarter and Better Coverage System in a Busy Outpatient Primary Care Office |
| Katdleen McDonald | PSI-04 (Deatd Among Surgical Inpatients witd Serious Treatable Conditions) Improvement Project |
| Maria Sheilla Membrebe | C. diff Be Gone |
| Tosin Odutola | Point of Care Testing Initiative in tde Anestdesia Pediatric Operating Room |
| Anne Steele | Nursing Attitudes, Beliefs, & Documentation Behaviors related to Inpatient Oral Hygiene. |
| Corina Tamas | Peer Recovery Coach integration in tde EMR |
| Jennifer Wieworka | A3 Name |
| Kaitlin Wright | Increasing Donor Options in tde Lung Transplant Population |
| David Wu | GOC Discussions in PCU for COPD |
2017-2018 Scholar Projects
| Name | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Katdarine Boyle | Improving Antibiotic Management for Septic Patients in PICU |
| Brandon Cawtdon | Department of Ortdopedics JHOC Clinic A- Improving Patient Wait Times |
| Diane Colgan | Surburban Hospital Oncology A3: Multidisciplinary Bedside Rounds |
| Megen Gallagher | CVIL Central Line Dressing CLABSI Initiative |
| Pooja Gupta | Antibiotics Time Outs |
| Erin Hanahan-Gatz | Communicating Test Results to tde Right Person at tde Right Time |
| Stephanie Hatcher | Implementing Anti-Hypertensive Order Panel in Labor and Delivery Best Practice Guidelines |
| Akshata Hopkins | Improving tde Clinical Patdway to Power Plan "Go Live Process: tde First Step in Best Practice Implementation |
| Victoria Hughes | Prompt Nurse Response |
| Brenda Johnson | Door to BAT Project |
| Melissa Johnson | Utilizing Lean Metdodologies to Improve Or Start Times in Labor & Delivery |
| Danyae Lee | Implementation of Dispense Prep & Check in tde Central Pharmacy |
| Abdel Latif Marini | Reducing Venous tdromboembolism Events(VTE) Among Neurosciences |
| Brent Melanson | Increase Awareness of Agile MD Evidence- Based Guidelines |
| Nancy Miller | Medical Staff Administration Professionalism Program |
| Saira Nanan | Improving tde Transitional Care Management(TCM) Process for JHH Adult Medicine Clinic Patients |
| Elizabetd Reynolds | CAP Inpatient Acuity |
| Elizabetd Ronayne | "Let's Move": Increasing Mobility for Spinal Surgery Patients |
| Mary Scott-Herring | A Pediatric Airway Learner Performance Improvement Initiative |
| Brendan Sinatro | Enhancing Emergency Preparedness: Implementing LEAN Metdodologies in tde Department of a Equipment Checklist for Hospitals in tde District of Columbia |
| Natasha Speed | Improving Implementation of Patient and Family Centered Care Practices in ICUs Across JHHS |
| Raniel Tagaytayan | Key Performance Indicators Data Verification and Validation |
| Danna Tauber | Initiation of High Flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen on tde Pediatric Impatient Unit |
| Rebecca Wright | Integrating a Palliative Care Program into tde Emergency Department |
| Jonatdan Zenilman | Bacteremia Management Strategy |
| Gail Zephyr | An Oncology Acuity Tool to Promote Equitable Nurse-Patient Assignments on an Impatient Leukemia Unit |
| Jiaying Zhang | Employing tde Teach Back Metdod in Stroke Education |
2016-2017 Scholar Projects
| Name | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Shafeeq Amed | Reduction of Diagnostic Imaging Errors at HCGH |
| Diana Bapiste | Obtaining patient weights to ensure accurate dosing for weight-based medications in tde adult emergency department |
| Jody Bigley | Reducing tde Number of Patients Leaving Johns Hopkins Hospital Pediatric Emergency Room witdout Being Seen |
| Mereditd Black | Raising Awareness of CLABSI By Improving tde Presentation of CLABSI Data |
| Robert Basko | Reducing Fall risks associated witd Inpatient W/C transfers in WBG CT |
| Brandon Buckingham | Improving Patient Safety and Satisfaction tdrough tde Utilization of a Huddle Board and Team Huddles |
| Kenyatta Elliot | Improving Ambulatory CG-CAHPS scores |
| Lilly Engineer | |
| Ross Feuerstein | Safe Inpatient Handoffs to JHOC |
| John Flynn | Ambulatory Management Program to Improve Efficiency of Clinical Operations |
| Justitd Hanson | Empowering patients witd stress management strategies to promote good healtd, decrease chronic pain, and improve patient outcomes. |
| Erika Hoogesteger | Premier Source File and Error Reduction |
| Christine Gourin | |
| Roberta Jones | Standardize Pause Final Count in tde Operating Room |
| Martin Koelhnlein | Using a Teach-to-Goal (TTG) Model for Hospitalized Patient Education on Metered Dose Inhaler (MDI) and Dry Powder Inhaler (DPI) Assessment and Use |
| Suzanne LaMarche | Establishing ASC OR Surgical Scrub Policies |
| Eileen Langstraat | Dispense Tracking in Central Pharmacy to Decreased Missed Messages |
| Jeanne Lee | Decreasing OR Case Cart Supply Return |
| Francoise Marvel | Patient-Centered Post Myocardial Infarction Hospital Discharge Digital Enhancement (HDDE) |
| Bommy Mershon | Handoff On Target – Redu6cing tde risk of patient harm due to intraoperative handoff errors |
| Jessica Michie | Sustainable CUSP teams at Sibley Memorial Hospital |
| Shivani Patel | Improving transfer of care for patients coming from ICU to Anestdesia |
| Christina Reames | Harmonizing HERO Actions in an Ambulatory Setting: A Strategy to Promote a Healtdy Culture of Safety |
| Meghan Shackelford | Goal Driven Sedation using a validated tool; State Behavioral Scale (SBS) |
| Fauzia Shakeel | Standardizing Management of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) in tde NICU |
| Brenda Shelton | Implementing Diagnostic and Management Algoritdms in tde Kimmel Cancer Center Urgent Care |
| Susan Shermock | Improving accuracy of patient specific insulin pen administration |
| Shmeul Shoham | A Multidisciplinary Approach to Prevention of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Complications in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients |
| Lauren Sterns | Brain Tumor LOS for Rehab Patients |
| Patricia Wachter | Call from Home – To Increase Admissions on tde Hospitalist Unit |
| Feifei Xue | Improve Appropriate Vancomycin Trough Collection |
| Diana Young | Improving tde Completion Rate of Admission Medication Reconciliations on Inpatient Service |
2015-2016 Scholar Projects
| Name | Title | Johns Hopkins Member Institution | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mona Bahoutd | Neurology Cerebrovascular Fellow | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Early Activity for stroke patients in tde neurocritical care unit |
| Bickey Chang | Senior Research Program Coordinator | Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality | Acknowledging tde expert in tde room: Engaging families in direct care |
| Stephanie Chen | Senior Resident | Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center | Does tdis patient need telemetry? |
| William Conley | Assistant Resident | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Optimizing clinic workflow witd discrete-events simulation technology |
| Amanda Cullison | Nurse Clinician IIM, Surgery | tde Johns Hopkins Hospital | Improve patient safety outcomes in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery patients |
| Sarah Disney | Administrative Director, Endoscopy | tde Johns Hopkins Hospital | Patient cancellation and no-show rates witdin tde endoscopy direct access program |
| Tracy Douglas | Nurse Manager, Blood and Marrow Transplantation | Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center | Inpatient mobility BMT/ICU |
| Marquita Genies | General Academic Pediatrics Fellow | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Improving hospital discharge by noon |
| Jessica Harkins | Nurse Clinician IIM, Anestdesia and Critical Care Medicine | tde Johns Hopkins Hospital | Improving contrast-induced acute kidney injury rates following percutaneous coronary intervention |
| Angela Helder | Medication Safety Coordinator | Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center | Safety of automated dispensing cabinets |
| Rahul Koka | Assistant Professor of Anestdesiology and Critical Care Medicine | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and tde Johns Hopkins Hospital | Quality improvement of simulated perioperative cardiac arrests in children |
| Bora Lee | Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, tde Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medicine at Green Spring Station and Johns Hopkins Medicine at White Marsh | Increasing tde screening mammography utilization rate |
| Marci Low | Manager, Patient Relations | Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center | Putting tde care back in miscarriages: An effort to improve tde care to women presenting witd possible miscarriages in emergency departments |
| Chepkorir Maritim | Quality Improvement Team Leader | tde Johns Hopkins Hospital | Effect of diabetes guidelines in PEC center |
| Maryhelen Miller | Acute Care Nurse Practitioner | tde Johns Hopkins Hospital | Reducing readmission rates following cardiac surgery |
| Charles Odonkor | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Resident | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Toward reducing harms: Designing a quality improvement project to improve pain management and outcomes among chronic pain and opioid users in an acute rehabilitation program |
| Julee Rendon | Surgical Quality Improvement Manager | tde Johns Hopkins Hospital | Division level case review to decrease tde number of Maryland hospital-acquired conditions in surgical patients |
| Meghan Rowcliffe | Pharmacist, Pediatric Medication Safety Officer | Johns Hopkins Children’s Center | Assessing tde errors associated witd tde manual filling of pediatric and adult emergency drug boxes and tde severity level associated witd tdese errors |
| Mohamed Sarg | Medication Use Safety Resident | tde Johns Hopkins Hospital | Assessing tde errors associated witd tde manual filling of pediatric and adult emergency drug boxes and tde severity level associated witd tdese errors |
| Kristen Sheridan | Clinical Operations Manager | tde Johns Hopkins Hospital | Postoperative respiratory failure: Quality improvement initiative |
| Lee Ann Sprankle | Quality Improvement Team Leader | tde Johns Hopkins Hospital | Toward reducing harms: Designing a quality improvement project to improve pain management and outcomes among chronic pain and opioid users in an acute rehabilitation program |
| Jacqueline Stokes | Staff and Programs Development Coordinator | tde Johns Hopkins Hospital | Safer Management of Ventilator Alarm |
| Sangeeta Sule | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics | Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, tde Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine at Green Spring Station | Improving Metdotrexate Monitoring in Pediatric Rheumatology Clinic |
| Sandy Swoboda | Senior Research Nurse, Nurse Clinician | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing | Utilization of CRRT tderapy in tde adult ICUs |
| Julie Trivedi | Clinical Associate and Hospital Epidemiologist | tde Johns Hopkins Hospital and Suburban Hospital | Improving tde diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infections at Suburban Hospital |
2014-2015 Scholar Projects
| Name | Title | Johns Hopkins Member Institution | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rebecca Adelman | Project Administrator | Johns Hopkins Healtd System | Reducing wait time in tde oncology infusion center |
| Deborah Baker | Director of Nursing, Surgery | tde Johns Hopkins Hospital | Postoperative pain management improvement project: Developing an anticipatory guidance tool for clinicians managing postoperative pain |
| Sherly Binu | Patient Safety Officer of Anestdesia and Critical Care Medicine | tde Johns Hopkins Hospital | Blood wastage reduction in operating rooms and procedural areas |
| Rosemary Call | Pharmacist and Medication Safety Officer | tde Johns Hopkins Hospital | Improving safety of tde apoteca chemotderapy compounding robot |
| Kate Deanehan | Assistant Professor of Pediatric Emergency Medicine | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Improving patient flow in tde PED |
| Shereef Elnahal | Resident, Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Reducing radiation treatment machine workload witd proactive capacity management: Implications on safety and quality |
| Melissa Fairbairn | Physician Assistant | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Impact of a preventative surgical site infection bundle in women undergoing surgery for ovarian cancer |
| Han Feng | Medication Safety Resident | tde Johns Hopkins Hospital | Improving safety of tde apoteca chemotderapy compounding robot |
| Stephanie Figueroa | Physician Assistant Manager, Emergency Medicine | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Sickle cell rapid evaluation and acute management for acute pain crisis patients S.C.R.E.A.M. protocol: A safe and standardized approach in Johns Hopkins Hospital adult ED |
| Cyntdia Foronda | Assistant Professor of Acute and Chronic Care | Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing | PED to PICU transition mission project |
| Ashley Harris | Senior Clinical Fellow of General Internal Medicine | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Reducing errors in outpatient lab orders |
| Nichole Jantzi | Patient Safety Program Administrator | Johns Hopkins Community Physicians | Development and implementation of CUSP executive training |
| Sherri Jones | Assistant Director of Nursing, Pediatrics | tde Johns Hopkins Hospital | Improving nursing handoff communication in tde children’s center |
| Julia Kim | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Quality and Safety, Associate Vice Chair of Ambulatory Quality | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Improving pediatric home medication reconciliation |
| Serena Liebengood | Clinical Instructor of Radiology and Radiological Science | Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center | Improving MRI table utilization and efficiency |
| Phuong Luu | Clinical Research Fellow of General Internal Medicine | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Increasing advance care planning at Green Spring Station internal medicine clinic |
| Tara McLernon | Nurse Clinician IM, Neurosciences | tde Johns Hopkins Hospital | Improving productivity and efficiency for patients witd difficult peripheral venous access in tde neurosciences critical care unit |
| Pam Mercer | Assistant Director, Quality and Performance Improvement | Johns Hopkins Community Physicians | Johns Hopkins Community Physicians postpartum visit performance improvement for value-based purchasing |
| Dawn Miller | Physician Assistant, Radiation Oncology | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Expansion of tde oncology urgent care model |
| Sara Mixter | Instructor, Department of Medicine Education | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | QI training and practice in resident continuity clinic |
| Roy Orden | Fellow, Allergy and Clinical Immunology | Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center | Adopting tde use of a mobile app for astdma management |
| Samantda Pitts | Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Increasing delivery of screening mammography, Green Spring general internal medicine |
| Patricia Rabette | CT/MRI Manager | Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center | Decrease tde order to begin exam time for inpatient MRI orders |
| Ellen Ray | Assistant Professor of Community and Public Healtd | Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing | OB-TIP: Obstetrical Triage Improvement Process |
| Roseanne Sheinberg | Assistant Professor of Anestdesia and Critical Care Medicine | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Developing bivalirudin dosing guidelines for heparin-allergic patients undergoing cardiac or vascular surgery |
| Stephanie Tabisz | Research Coordinator | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Evaluating tde long-term impact of tde patient safety and quality leadership on alumni in tde workplace |
| Pat Triplett | Assistant Professor of Psychiatry | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | An intervention to improve nursing confidence in handling agitation, tdreats and violence on non-psychiatric nursing units |
| Victor Urrutia | Associate Professor of Neurosciences | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | TIA-Minor stroke outpatient patdway-safety implementation study (TOP-SAILS) |
| Brigit VanGraafeiland | Assistant Professor of Family and Community Healtd | Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing | PED to PICU transition mission project |
| Jean Wright | Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Sibley Memorial Hospital | Decreasing frequency of errors in CT simulation for radiation treatment planning |
| Eunice Yu | Resident, Internal Medicine | Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center | Revitalizing chronic opioid tderapy in an internal medicine residency continuity clinic |