| Convocation 2009Upon completion of the Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety program, graduates have acquired the necessary skills and knowledge to be competitive for leadership positions in healthcare institutions, governmental and policy bodies, and research careers in academia. The graduates of the Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety program are prepared to be the next generation of quality improvement innovators and patient safety leaders. In fact, by program completion, 100% of graduates received professional promotions or attained quality or safety leadership positions. | 
2009 Master of science degree recipients
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Graduate Programs in Healthcare Quality and Patient SafetyDirectors' MessageAs you graduate from the Northwestern University Graduate Programs in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety, we would like to offer our congratulations on your truly admirable accomplishments. You are now armed with the knowledge and skills to take your place as leaders in the fields of healthcare quality and patient safety. We look forward to watching the leadership you will take and the improvements you will craft and facilitate with the tools you have gained. We encourage you to stimulate your creativity with continued learning. As these fields come into greater prominence, you now become the teachers. We wish you all the best, now and in the future, as you build your careers improving healthcare quality and patient safety. | |
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| Donna Woods, EdM, PhD, Co-Director | Kevin Weiss, MD, MPH, Co-Director | 
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Convocation Speaker | Gordon Schiff, MD
|  | | Gordon Schiff is Associate Director, Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He worked in quality improvement and patient safety at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital for three decades where he was medical director of County’s General Medicine Clinic and Professor of Medicine at Rush. He was PI for the AHRQ Rush-Cook County Developmental Center for Research in Patient Safety Diagnosis Error Project. He is currently PI of a Harvard Risk Management Foundation project studying diagnostic errors, and co-investigator a University of Alabama AHRQ project tracking diagnosis errors by automating follow-up feedback. | He is currently Clinical Director of TOP-MED (Tools for Optimizing Prescribing, Monitoring and Education) AHRQ Center for Education and Research in Therapeutics based at the University of Illinois College of Pharmacy.
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Dr. Schiff has published numerous patient safety articles, and is editor of Getting Results: Reliably Communicating and Acting on Critical Test Results published by Joint Commission Resources. He is past Chair of the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association and on editorial boards of Medical Care, Journal of Public Health Policy, and the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety. He received the 2005 Institute of Medicine Chicago Patient Safety Leader of the Year award, and Institute for Safe Medical Practices (ISMP) 2006 Lifetime Achievement award.
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Saturday, June 20, 2009 | Convocation Ceremony | 
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| Jane Holl, MD, MPH
Director | John X. Thomas Jr., PhD
Senior Associate Dean | | Institute for Healthcare Studies | Educational Programs | Feinberg School of Medicine | Feinberg School of Medicine | 
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| Gordon Schiff, MD | Abra Berg, MD | | Convocation Speaker | Student Speaker |
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