SURGICAL QUALITY & SAFETY COMMITTEE
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Vision: a declaration of mid- or long-term goals. The vision of the APSA Quality and Safety Committee is to improve the quality and safety of all of children’s surgery. The committee will serve the APSA membership as the leaders, innovators, and resource for patient safety and the highest quality of care through education, training, and mentorship. Mission: statement of purpose. The overall mission of the Quality and Safety Committee is to develop, support and promote initiatives and programs that serve to improve the quality and safety of pediatric surgical care. The purpose of the committee is to: – Educate the APSA membership on the fundamental principles of patient safety & quality improvement. – Promote participation in programs that monitor quality & safety in surgical practice, particularly those that provide a benchmarking framework for comparative performance analyses and collaborative knowledge-sharing. – Support efforts that promote high-value surgical care, with an emphasis on improving outcomes while at the same time reducing resource utilization. – Define safety standards and other quality benchmarks for pediatric surgical conditions.
The APSA Quality and Safety Committee aims to develop, support and promote initiatives that lead to improvements in the quality of pediatric surgical care. The committee encourages participation in programs that measure and monitor quality and safety in surgical practice. The committee works to define safety standards and other quality benchmarks for pediatric surgical conditions, and to provide educational opportunities for APSA membership on the principles of quality improvement.
To support its mission, the APSA Surgical Quality and Safety Committee has created the following resources exclusively for APSA members:
- Quality & Safety Toolkit – everything you need to implement a QI project, including contact lists of surgeon implementers, protocols, patient and provider education, and published outcomes.
- Resources for quality and safety education – links to resources, seminars, checklists, safe handoffs and other team-based safety interventions
- ACS verification – learn about the Task Force for Children’s Surgical Care
Members
Maria Cho – Friend of Committee
Maria.Cho@insideoutmedicine.com
Mehul V. Raval – Chair
Lurie Children’s of Chicago
mraval@luriechildrens.org
Monica E. Lopez – Vice Chair
Texas Children’s Hospital
melopez@texaschildrens.org
Hira Ahmad – Member
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
HiraAhmad86@gmail.com
Steven W. Bruch – Member
Univ of Michigan
sbruch@med.umich.edu
Henry L. Chang – Member
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
henrylchang@gmail.com
Catherine C. Chen – Member
Children’s Hosp Boston
catherine.chen@childrens.harvard.edu
Jason C. Fisher – Member
NYU Langone Medical Center
jason.fisher@nyumc.org
Colleen M. Fitzpatrick – Member
collfitz@yahoo.com
Mollie R. Freedman-Weiss – Member
Mollie.Freedman-Weiss@Yale.edu
Jeffrey W. Gander – Member
University of Virginia Children’s Hospital
jg9br@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu
Grant H. Geissler – Member
St Joseph’s Childrens Hospital
Grant.Geissler@baycare.org
Raquel Gonzalez – Member
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
rgonza35@jhmi.edu
Erica R. Gross – Member
Stony Brook Children’s Hospital
erica.gross@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Martha-Conley Ingram – Member
martha.ingram1@northwestern.edu
Akemi L. Kawaguchi – Member
University of Texas HSC Houston
akemi.kawaguchi@uth.tmc.edu
Afif N. Kulaylat – Member
afif.kulaylat@gmail.com
Patricia “Patty” Lange – Member
Virginia Commonwealth Univ
patricia.lange@vcuhealth.org
Christopher S. Muratore – Member
Stony Brook Pediatric Surgery
Christopher.Muratore@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Gary Nace – Member
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
naceg@email.chop.edu
Michael Phillips – Member
The University of North Carolina School of Medicine
michael.r.phillips@gmail.com
Rebecca M. Rentea – Member
Children’s Mercy Hospital
rrentea@cmh.edu
Daniel S. Rhee – Member
Johns Hopkins
drhee1@jhmi.edu
Dorothy V. Rocourt – Member
Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital
drocourt@hmc.psu.edu
Stephen B. Shew – Member
Stanford University School of Medicine
sbshew@stanford.edu
Kyle J. Van Arendonk – Member
Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
kvanarendonk@chw.org
Derek S. Wakeman – Member
University of Rochester School of Medicine
derek_wakeman@urmc.rochester.edu
Ryan Walk – Member
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
ryanmwalk@gmail.com
Robert J. Baird – Ex Officio
BCCH – Surgery
robert.baird@cw.bc.ca
Loren Berman – Ex Officio
Nemours – A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children
loren.berman@nemours.org
Adam B. Goldin – Ex Officio
Seattle Childrens Hospital
adam.goldin@seattlechildrens.org
Kurt F. Heiss – Ex Officio
Emory Children’s Ctr/Atlanta Ped Surg PC
kurt.heiss@choa.org
Shawn J. Rangel – Ex Officio
Children’s Hospital Boston
shawn.rangel@childrens.harvard.edu
Shawn D. St. Peter – Ex Officio
Children’s Mercy Hosp
sspeter@cmh.edu
KuoJen Tsao – Ex Officio
The University of Texas McGovern Medical School
kuojen.tsao@uth.tmc.edu
Charles D. Vinocur – Ex Officio
AI DuPont Hospital for Children
cvinocur@Nemours.org