UB GME Quality Improvement/Patient Safety (QIPS) Committee

The QIPS Committee is charged with ensuring residents and faculty members understand, participate in, and feel responsible for the quality of patient care delivered in clinical settings.

The UB GME Committee and the ACGME expect that residents and fellows are integrated into the health systems to participate in identifying and responding to patient safety concerns and quality issues.

The QI/PS committee includes representatives from all of the Jacobs School GME sites.

Specific charges of the QIPS Committee include:

  1. Recommend strategies to improve how UB GME clinical sites engage resident and fellow physicians in learning to provide safe, high quality patient care.
  2. Identify opportunities for residents to participate in QI/PS efforts that align with the needs of the clinical learning environments.
  3. Recommend strategies for developing resident and faculty knowledge and skills in QI/PS.
  4. Identify local and national QIPS experts to serve as visiting lecturers or workshop leaders.
  5. Participate in the review and selection of awardees for the annual GME-funded QI/PS Awards.
  6. Ensure that resident/fellow clinical performance data is available and regularly disseminated to trainees.

See Also

2018-2019 Committee Members

Gail Bagazzoli, BSN, RN Vice President of Quality
Upper Allegheny Health System
Roseanne C. Berger, MD Senior Associate Dean, GME
Gregory Cherr, MD Assistant Dean, GME & Chair
Quality Improvement/Patient Safety Subcommittee
Katherine Cich, MM Director, GME Accreditation
Brian D'Arcy, MD Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs
Chief Medical Officer
Catholic Health System
Roberto Diaz Del Carpio, MD Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Matthew Kaufman Director, Quality Improvement
Oishei Children's Hospital
Charlene Ludlow, MHA, RN, CIC Chief Safety Officer
Erie County Medical Center
Joshua Mangis Accreditation Assistant, GME
Maralyn Militello, RN, BSN, MPA Chief Quality and Safety Officer
Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital
Kenneth Snyder, MD, PhD Vice President, Physician Quality
Kaleida Health
Grace Stringfellow, MD Chief of Staff
VA Western New York Healthcare System
Angie Tavernier, MS, RN, OCN, CIC Director, Patient Safety, Organizational Performance Improvement
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Meetings

The Graduate Medical Education Quality Improvement/Patient Safety (QIPS) Committee meets each month.