She was appointed Director of Quality and Safety for GME at BIDMC and is responsible for supporting QI and safety education across all trainees at the medical center. She was recently named the Program Director for the Harvard Medical School Fellowship in Patient Safety and Quality. In addition Dr. Tess has a longstanding interest in curriculum development that she uses to teach hands-on workshops for faculty and residents.

Dr. Bird was integrally involved in the development of structured evaluations to better assess learner progression to competency on ACGME milestones in the domains of systems-based practice and practice- based learning and improvement. She leads the quality improvement and population health education for where she works to address disparities in quality outcomes between our faculty and resident primary care panels. Additionally, she directs high-risk transitions both at the time of hospital discharge and during end-of-year resident transitions for the academic practices at Penn. Her research interests are focused on the use of quality improvement research methods to address inequities in the quality outcomes in the primary care setting. She serves on national committees devoted to quality, safety, and health equity including the Equity Matters ACGME National Equity Initiative, AAIM Health Disparities Collaborative, and the Patient Safety Collaborative for the ACGME.

He has been the recipient of a Hartford Center of Excellence grant and a Hearst Foundation grant to train chief residents in geriatric principles, teaching and quality improvement. Dr. Shah serves as a QI coach in the VA program to teach QI to rural healthcare providers. He is a graduate of the Greater New York Hospital Association Clinical Quality Fellowship Program. He has published review articles and textbook chapters on fecal incontinence, constipation and colon cancer screening in the geriatric population. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling, cooking and hiking, and lives with his partner in New York City.

She has been instrumental in the development of educational programs around quality improvement, patient safety and high-value care for the IMRP as well as the implementation of competency-based trainee evaluation for the Next Accreditation System. In addition, she is the Associate Director for Education in the hospital medicine group. In this role, she works closely with the program and service line directors to oversee the various educational programs offered by the hospitalist group, including the Advance Practice Fellowship, the Hospitalist Training Program and the Leaders Track, and the Young Hospitalist Academy, which includes the Hospital Medicine Sub-Internship, Health Innovations Scholars Program and the Leadership Education for Aspiring Doctors Program.

Dr. Warm has received multiple teaching awards including the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada International Residency Educator of the Year Award, the ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award, the APDIM Spotlight Innovator Award, the ACP Ohio Chapter Master Teacher Award, the University of Cincinnati’s A.B. Dolly Cohen Award, as well as teaching honors from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and the Internal Medicine Residency. He has participated as core faculty in multiple learning collaboratives including the recent Professionals Accelerating Clinical and Educational Redesign (PACER) sponsored by the Macy Foundation and the Boards of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Family Medicine, and SHM’s Quality Safety Educator Academy. His academic interests include using assessment to create curricula and systems to improve education and care.

Dr. Oyler is currently co-director for the Quality and Safety Track at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, which was developed to train medical student leaders in quality improvement. She is also the Associate Director of the Primary Care Group where she practices outpatient internal medicine on the south side of Chicago.

She is currently completing a Master of Science in Health Policy Research with a concentration in health care quality and patient safety through the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her primary interests include health equity research with a focus on using implementation science and equity-focused quality improvement to address inequities in perinatal and neonatal care.

As Patient Safety Physician Lead for Banner-University Medical Center she is leading the way for 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 Phoenix and Tucson. Working closely with the Pheonix VA Healthcare System Chief Residents in Quality and Safety, she is able to further the impact that her learners are able to achieve by helping to expand the breadth of their impact nationwide. Developing faculty for other institutions and programs is a passion of hers and prompted her to co-direct a local faculty development course on Patient Safety and Quality Improvement. She now lead of the PSQI career track for the Banner Medical Group hospitalists hoping to help others find their passion in this valuable work. She has been involved in mentorship for over 100 different projects leading to improvements that impact millions of dollars in care and thousands of patients. A notable project published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, “Things We Do For No Reason” in 2019 was the top article for the year and worked to eliminate unnecessary contact precautions for historical MRSA and VRE infections. The timeliness of a discussion about utilizing PPE appropriately in the months before a world-wide pandemic was certainly incredible, but would never have been accomplished if not for one of the residents that was inspired by her curriculum and mentorship. Dr. Franks’s mission is to make healthcare safer for every patient and teach future generations of physicians to do the same.