Ebru Bish, Associate Professor, Grado Department of Engineering
Dr. Bish is an Associate Professor in the Grado Department of
Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. Her research is
focused broadly in design and management of business processes that
deliver goods and services, with specific emphasis in decision-making
under uncertainty, supply chain and operations management, and
capacity investment. She has published extensively in leading journals
in Operations Research and Management Science. Her research is mainly
supported by the National Science Foundation.
PRESENTER
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Anthony Slonim, Vice President Medical Affairs, Carilion Clinic
Dr. Slonim is the Vice President of Medical Affairs at Carilion Medical Center, which is an 850 bed academic medical center and the flagship of the Carilion Clinic, a seven hospital system in Roanoke, Virginia. Dr. Slonim is an intensive care specialist and maintains an active clinical practice. He has administrative oversight for quality, patient safety, risk management, and medical affairs. He has received a second Doctorate in Health Policy. His research is focused broadly in healthcare quality with specific emphasis in patient safety. Dr. Slonim has published > 60 articles, 10 textbooks and received > $1M in grants.
Description
High-severity, low frequency, patient safety events often drive a hospital’s risk management program because of their impact on patients, their potential for public embarrassment and the significant financial loss they represent. This session helps experienced risk professionals understand how to apply sophisticated patient safety tools (Six Sigma, micro-simulation) in the analysis and improvement of low frequency, high-severity events during hospitalization. The ASHRM Foundation funded research to identify opportunities to use these tools in hospitals.
LEARNER OUTCOMES:
Understand probabilistic risk assessment to reduce high severity events during hospitalization
Understand the relationship of the Six Sigma Framework to high risk patient safety events.
Understand the value of microsimulation to guide improvement efforts for high-severity events