Dr. Dale Needham is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He also holds an appointment in physical medicine and rehabilitation. He serves as the medical director of the Critical Care Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Program and the director of the Outcomes After Critical Illness and Surgery (OACIS) Group at Johns Hopkins.

Don't miss Dr. Needham's talk on Designing, Conducting, & Sustaining Quality Improvement.

Annette Lavezza is the acute care therapy consultation services manager at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. She has 25 years of experience as an occupational therapist, clinically specializing in care for patients with neurological impairments. She uses her experience to engage in transdisciplinary quality improvement projects and is responsible for collaborative efforts to integrate documentation of function in the medical record across disciplines.

Be sure to catch her talks on the implementation of our tools.

Eleni Flanagan is an Assistant Director at the Johns Hopkins Department of Medical Nursing. Over the past 20 years, she has served the Department of Medicine in many capacities: ICU nurse clinician, shift coordinator, case manager and nurse manager for three different units, including the Cardiology Progressive Cardiac Care Unit (PCCU) and Interventional Cardiology and Electrophysiology labs.

In her presentations, Eleni will provide a nurse's perspective to patient mobility.

Michael Friedman is the Director of Strategic Program Development and faculty member of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Mr. Friedman co-directs the Johns Hopkins Medicine Activity and Mobility Promotion (AMP).

Catch Michael's numerous presentations on topics like The Rationale for Developing Formal Hospital Mobility Programs, Translating Prediction Tools into Practice and Using Data to Drive Culture and Accountability.

Dr. Sapna Kudchadkar is an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, pediatrics and physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her primary research focus is the role of sleep disturbances as modulator of outcomes in critically ill children, and the integration of sleep promotion, sedation optimization and delirium prevention to promote early mobility and improve functional outcomes for survivors of pediatric critical illness.

Don't miss her perspective on pediatric activity and mobility promotion.