Adapting to a Dynamic Workforce Environment: How Higher Education Meets the Challenges of Healthcare Quality and Safety.

This session features a panel discussion moderated by Anthony Stanowski, DHA, President and CEO of the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education. The panel of leading academics and NAHQ executives will examine the NAHQ workforce report and its implications for higher education to develop a competent workforce that can best address the demands of ensuring healthcare quality and safety.

Learning Objectives:

The benefits of graduate education for patient safety and quality.
How higher education can address the domain gaps identified by NAHQ’s workforce report to ensure a skilled quality and safety workforce
Approaches to encourage more organizations to fund graduate education as part of a collaborative workforce development plan.
What are the key characteristics of accredited program that distinguish them from non-accredited programs.

Speakers

Aarti Raghavan, MD, FAAP, MS (PSL)

Associate Professor Clinical Pediatrics Medical Director - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Director - Quality and Safety Pediatrics Program Director - Patient Safety Leadership Programs - Department of Medical Education Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics at University of Illinois at Chicago

Speaker Type: 60 Minute Session On-Demand

Allyson Hall, PhD

Director, Graduate Programs in Healthcare Quality & Safety at Department of Health Services Administration School of Health Professions University of Alabama at Birmingham

Speaker Type: 60 Minute Session On-Demand

Anthony Stanowski, DHA, FACHE

President & CEO at Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education

Speaker Type: 60 Minute Session On-Demand

Carole Hemmelgarn, MS, MS

Senior Director, Executive master’s program for Clinical Quality, Safety & Leadership Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Biomedical Graduate Education at Georgetown University

Frances Cornelius, PhD, MSN, RN-BC, CNE, ANEF

Assistant Dean for Teaching, Learning and Engagement, Clinical Professor, Office of Teaching, Learning and Engagement (OTLE), College of Nursing and Health Professions at Drexel University

Speaker Type: 60 Minute Session On-Demand

Jennifer Myers, MD

Professor of Clinical Medicine, Director at Center for Health Care Improvement and Patient Safety School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania

Kathryn Farrell, EdD, MSN, RN

Assistant Clinical Professor, Quality, Safety, and Risk Management Track Director at Drexel University

Speaker Type: 60 Minute Session On-Demand

Mary Reich Cooper, M.D., J.D.

Program Director, Healthcare Quality and Safety Program Director, Operational Excellence Associate Professor, Population Health Jefferson College of Population Health at Thomas Jefferson University

Speaker Type: 60 Minute Session On-Demand

Sabrina Figueiredo, PhD

Program Director for Health Care Quality Assistant Professor of Clinical Research and Leadership at School of Medicine & Health Sciences George Washington University