COURSE DIRECTORS
Ruth Franks Snedecor, MD
Ruth Franks Snedecor, MD
Associate Professor and Associate Internal Medicine Program Director
Sub-Internship Director and Electives Co-Director
University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix
Ruth Franks Snedecor, MD, is an academic hospitalist at Banner-University Medical Center and Associate Program Director for the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix and has been educating and mentoring in patient safety and quality improvement for over a decade. Recognizing the need for patient safety and quality improvement education and project mentorship, she went on to develop a curriculum for the internal medicine residency program and joined the faculty of QSEA to help other programs in all fields of medicine better train their faculty, residents, students. and fellows in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement (PSQI). Moving into the role as co-director of QSEA, she is thrilled to help refine the content offerings meaningful to today’s educator. As Patient Safety Physician Lead for Banner-University Medical Center she is leading the way for interdisciplinary team members including residents and fellows to be involved in projects that are aligned with the institutional and system-wide initiatives to further improve the culture of safety across Arizona. Working closely with the Phoenix VA Healthcare System Chief Residents in Quality and Safety, she can further the impact that her learners are able to achieve by helping to expand the breadth of their work nationwide.
Anjala Tess, MD, SFHM
Anjala Tess, MD, SFHM
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Anjala Tess, MD, SFHM, has been involved in teaching and mentoring patient safety for more than 10 years. Dr. Tess and her team created an acclaimed quality improvement rotation for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) residents that was recently awarded second place for the Duncan Neushauer Curricular Innovation Award from the Academy of Healthcare Improvement. Under her direction, this elective has become a mandatory part of training for residents. Dr. Tess’ research on this program has shown that the curriculum has affected the culture of safety in the department. In addition, she founded, recruited, and trained patient safety core faculty to mentor the residents and has delivered many faculty development workshops in patient safety at the local, regional, and national levels. In her role as Associate Program Director for Curriculum and Patient Safety in the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, she has a unique responsibility to help encourage a culture of safety within the residency and link quality to educational initiatives.
FACULTY
Amber Bird, MD
Amber Bird, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
University of Pennsylvania
Amber Bird, MD, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and the current Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her BS in biological anthropology at the University of Michigan and MD at Drexel University, followed by residency and a chief residency at the University of Chicago, where she completed the MERITS fellowship in medical education.
Joel Bradley, MD
Joel Bradley, MD
Director of Graduate Medical Education Quality and Safety Education, Dartmouth Health
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Adult and Pediatric Hospital Medicine (DHMC/Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth)
Co-Director, Patients and Populations Course, Geisel School of Medicine
Joel Bradley, MD, graduated from Williams College and University of Massachusetts School of Medicine with a passion for medical education and applying the humanities to clinical medicine. During residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at Tufts/Maine Medical Center, this extended to quality, safety, and clinical ethics. Following chief residency in internal medicine and pediatrics in Maine, he completed a fellowship year in the VA Chief Residency in Quality and Safety (CRQS) Program as part of the Dartmouth Hitchcock Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency programs. He continued on as CRQS program faculty, contributing to iterative development of the curriculum at the VA National Center for Patient Safety.
Dr. Bradley currently serves as Director of Graduate Medical Education Quality and Safety Education for Dartmouth Health, developing curricula, teaching, and mentoring trainee work in quality and safety across specialties. He works clinically as an adult and pediatric hospitalist. His interest lies in the intersection of clinical care, health system quality and safety, education, interprofessional team care, ethics, and equity applied to improvement.
When not at work, he can otherwise be found with his wife and two young children in the woods, doing trail work or perfunctory home repairs; on roller skis or any variety of regular skis; or reading (but mostly children’s books).
Julie Oyler, MD FACP
Julie Oyler, MD FACP
Professor and Associate Program Director
University of Chicago Internal Medicine Residency Program
Julie Oyler, MD, FACP, is a Professor and Associate Program Director at the University of Chicago Internal Medicine Residency Program. She completed her undergraduate education at Stanford University and her medical degree and internal medicine residency and chief residency at the University of Chicago. She developed the University of Chicago Medicine’s Quality Improvement and Curriculum, a two- year curriculum which has been used to teach over 500 internal medicine residents practice-based learning and improvement and systems-based practice.
Michelle-Marie Peña, MD
Michelle-Marie Peña, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Michelle-Marie Peña, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Dr. Peña received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed her Pediatrics Residency, Chief Residency, and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Gabriella Sherman, MD, MBA
Gabriella Sherman, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Sherman joined HCA and Los Robles Health System in April 2020 as the Chief Medical Officer. Prior to joining HCA, Dr. Sherman was the Vice President of Quality and Clinical Operations at Huntington Hospital. Dr. Sherman is passionate about advancing the clinical quality agenda and enhancing the culture of safety within the organization.
Since joining Los Robles, Dr. Sherman has led the organization through two TJC Triennial Surveys, maintained clinical excellence as demonstrated by twelve consecutive Leapfrog A hospital ratings, successfully launched seven Graduate Medical Education programs, and improved physician engagement. In addition to traditional CMO reports, Dr. Sherman leads the Trauma Service line, Pharmacy, and the Emergency Department. She is committed to building high performing teams that embrace the principles of high reliability, just culture and authentic leadership.
Dr. Sherman graduated summa cum laude with a dual degree in Biology and Spanish from Virginia Commonwealth University. She completed her medical education at the Medical College of Virginia and her Internal Medicine residency at Huntington Hospital. Dr. Sherman is Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and Board Certified in Clinical Informatics. In addition to her medical studies, she received her MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where she focused on finance and strategic management.
In her spare time, Dr. Sherman volunteers as an executive leadership coach to aspiring healthcare leaders, maintains a faculty appointment with the Society of Hospital Medicine and serves as the Chair of the Mission Impact Committee on the board of March of Dimes.
Darlene Tad-y, MD, MBA, SFHM
Darlene Tad-y, MD, MBA, SFHM
Associate Chief Medical Officer of Patient Flow
University of Colorado Hospital
Medical Director for Capacity Management
UC Health
Darlene Tad-y, MD, MBA, SFHM, is the Associate Chief Medical Officer of Patient Flow at the University of Colorado Hospital. In this role, she oversees efforts to optimize operational efficiency and ensure patients receive the right care, at the right time, in the right setting. In addition, she is Medical Director for Capacity Management for UCHealth, guiding the strategy for optimal placement of patients within the system and ensuring access through the UCHealth DocLine Transfer Center. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (CU) where she is an academic hospitalist. She teaches for the Quality and Safety Educators Academy, authored and co-directs the quality improvement curriculum and annual QI pre-course for the American College of Physicians, and is an assistant editor for The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. She serves on the Board for the Society of Hospital Medicine and Prime Health.
Dr. Tad-y’s prior leadership roles included Vice President of Clinical Affairs for the Colorado Hospital Association in which she led statewide quality and safety initiatives in Colorado hospitals, overseeing workforce development including physician engagement, hospital emergency preparedness, and innovation. She has been a faculty member of CU’s Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety and Efficiency, and previously served as a director on the Board of Colorado’s state health information exchange, Contexture (parent company of CORHIO).
Dr. Tad-y earned her medical degree from St. George’s University, and completed her internal medicine residency at NYU Langone Hospital – Brooklyn and hospital medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins Bayview.
Eric Warm, MD, MACP
Eric Warm, MD, MACP
Professor of Medicine
Internal Medicine Residency Program Director
University of Cincinnati
Eric Warm, MD, MACP, is the Richard W. Vilter Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair for Graduate Medical Education, and Internal Medicine Residency Program Director at the University of Cincinnati. He and his team research novel mechanisms to assess educational and clinical performance within the context of residency training to improve learning and care. He is a founding member of the RADICAL Medical Education Research Lab (Research in Assessment Designed to Improve Care and Learning), and he has also been a faculty member at QSEA since its inception.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Jennifer Myers, MD, MHM, FACP
Jennifer Myers, MD, MHM, FACP
Jennifer Myers, MD, MHM, FACP is a Professor of Clinical Medicine and the Executive Director of the Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Safety (CHIPS) at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. CHIPS serves as the nexus for quality and safety education at Penn, housing several educational pathways for trainees, faculty, and interprofessional learners, including a Masters Program. Her scholarly work spans medical education and the health care delivery system and focuses on integrating quality and safety into academic medical centers and developing the next generation of quality and safety practitioners, researchers, and teachers.
Dr. Myers was the founding co-director of the Society of Hospital Medicine’s Quality & Safety Educators Academy, which has trained over 700 faculty nationally, an Associate Editor for BMJ Quality & Safety, the leading international journal in the field, and has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles in the field. Her work has been funded or supported by the Josiah Macy Foundation, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. She is currently supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.