OAQI staff have been trained in Quality Improvement processes and tools. If you need help with a QI project, contact the OAQI, we would be happy to assist you and your team in achieving your goals in an efficient and effective way.
In 2018-2019, Dr. Sheehan earned certification from completion of the University of Toronto Excellence in Quality Improvement Certificate Program (EQUIP).
EQUIP is specifically designed to address the QI needs of faculty members and physicians working in clinical academic learning environments.
The goal of EQUIP is to train academic QI faculty champions and increase the number of academic departments/universities that have an identified faculty lead who is able to advance the practice and education of QI.
In 2018-2019, Tanya Biscardi successfully completed the UB Certified Lean Professional program.
A lean organization understands customer value and focuses its key processes to continuously increase it. The ultimate goal is to provide perfect value to the customer through a perfect value creation process that has zero waste.
The Certified Lean Professional program, offered by the Center for industrial Effectiveness at the University at Buffalo teaches participants about the Lean practices and methodologies.
Participants learn to identify and eliminate 8 forms of waste, identify and improve value-added activities, reduce or eliminate non value-added activities, and improve process flow and customer’s perception of value.
The 5 Principles of Lean Thinking are:
- Certified Lean Professional: Lean Practices and Methodologies, v12.0 University at Buffalo Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE), 2018 –
Need help conducting CQI? Contact Tanya Biscardi.
