2024 - QUALITY FORUM

​​​Event Details:
  • ​Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2024
  • Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
  • Location: University of Minnesota Health Sciences Education Center

Keynote Speaker: 
  • Zachary Davidson, MD 

Poster Competition Winners:
  • Jessica Makori, Jenny Johnson, Alex Snyder, and Jeanne Larson Moore 
​            University of Minnesota Medical School             
            Multidisciplinary QI Initiative to Improve Women's Service Line Depression Screening
  • Florian Merkle,  Michael Perlmutter, Alexander Schin, Aaron Robinson, Gregg Jones, Alec Bunting, and Nick Simpson
            Hennepin Healthcare Emergency Medical Services
​            Oral Risperidone for Mild Anxiety and Agitation Prehospital - A Retrospective Review
  • Austin Hoeg, Aaron Pergolski, Whitney Quast, David Pelletier, and Tammy Lampro
            University of Minnesota Medical School     
            Decreasing Racial Disparities in Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation Referrals for Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction
  • Wendy Sun, Nathan Ostlie, Anna Rodriguez, Celina Spencer, Tiffany Truong, Amy Whillock, and Nathan Chomilo
            University of Minnesota Pediatrics Residency
            Addressing Environmental Triggers: Increasing Referrals to Asthma Home-Based Services in the Twin Cities
  • Danny Mohama, Viorel Florea, and Susan Lou
            University of Minnesota Internal Medicine Residency
​            Improving Cardiac Rehab Enrollment for Veterans after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention – A Quality Improvement Study 

2023 - QUALITY FORUM

​​Event Details:
  • ​Date: Wednesday, May 31, 2023
  • Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
  • Location: University of Minnesota Health Sciences Education Center - 526 Delaware St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Keynote Speaker:  ​
Poster Competition Winners: 
  • Andres Camacho, Jennifer Gallup, Tony Thoppil, Ayham Moty
             UMN-PSYCH-Psychiatry Residency
             Evaluation of Outcomes in Whittier Ambulatory Procedure Clinic
  • Zachary Davidson, Travis Olives
             HH-EMED-Emergency Medicine-Internal Medicine Residency
             You Aren’t The Doctor I Saw Last Time: Improving Resident-Patient Continuity in an EM-IM Resident Clinic
  • Michael J. Davis, Eric Geurkink, Muthu Narayan
             HH-IMED-Internal Medicine Residency
             An Amoxicillin Challenge Protocol for Inpatient Penicillin Allergies
  • Jack Keilty, Jordan Marmet, Sameer Gupta, Rodney Haas
             UMN-IMED-Internal Medicine Residency
             It’s About Time: Systematic Efforts to Discharge Patients by 11:00 am
  • Nicha Wongjarupong, Vijay S Are, Anders Westanmo, Tessa Herman, Nancy R Murphy, Natalie Wilson, Mohammad Bilal, Susan M Lou, Brian Hanson
             UMN-IMED-Gastroenterology
             Short interval repeat colonoscopy after inadequate bowel preparation is low among veterans: A single center retrospective study

2022 - QUALITY FORUM

​Event Details:
  • Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2022
  • Time:  5:30 -8:30 pm
  • Location: University of Minnesota Health Sciences Education Center

Keynote Speaker:  
Poster Competition Winners: 
  • Morgan Freeman, MD, Brian Hanson, MD, Reut Danieli, MD, Patrick Cruitt, PhD
     Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Center for Care Delivery and   Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, VA Quality Scholars, Minneapolis VA Medical Center
     “Initiative to Improve Rates of Herpes Zoster Vaccination in Veterans with Inflammatory Bowel Disease”
  • Spencer Goble, G. Onyeaghala, L. Teigen, P. Yang, M. Wagner, B. Wu, D. Schladt, W. Guan, C. Staley, A. Matas, R. Remmel,
    W    . Oetting, P. Jacobson and A. Israni
     Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, University of Minnesota
     “Dietary Influences on Mycophenolate Related Diarrhea in Kidney Transplant Recipients”
  • Jillian Wothe, Laura Bosacker, Harika Nalluri, Michael Cullen, Melissa Brunsvold
    University of Minnesota Medical School Department of Surgery
    “Improving Mental Health Support, Career Transitions, and Access to Healthcare for Surgical Residents”
  • McCleary K, Curry C, Chrenka E, Rosenbloom MH
     University of Minnesota, Dept. of Neurology
    “Robotic therapy pet for inpatient delirium management: A quality improvement initiative”​

2021 - QUALITY FORUM

​Event Details:
  • Date: Wednesday, May 26, 2021
  • Time: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
  • Location: Virtual Event​​

Keynote Speaker: 
  • ​Ryan Jelinek, DO -  A Case for QI:  My Journey Through Quality Improvement Work via Clinical Informatics

Poster Competition Winners: 
  • Yu-Hui Huang, MD, Can Ozutemiz, MD, Nathan Rubin, Robben Schat, DO, Gregory Metzger, PhD, Benjamin Spilseth, MD
                  Diagnostic Radiology Residency, University of Minnesota
  • Laolu Lediju, MBBS, Maria Arciniegas, MD, Monique Pondy, MD, Susan Hasti, MD, Laraine Steel, MS, APRN
                  Family Medicine Residency, Hennepin Healthcare
  • Zachary Davidson, MD, Daniel Neren, MD
                  Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Hennepin Healthcare
  • Jake Jasurda, DO, Reut Danieli, MD, Bradley Yamanaka, MD, Aasma Shaukat, MD
                  Internal Medicine Residency, University of Minnesota
  • Kayla Murphy, MS3, Baila Elkin, MS3, Elizabeth Aby, MD, Patricia Dickmann, MD
                  UMN Medical School, Internal Medicine Residency, Psychiatry Residency, University of Minnesota​

2020 - QUALITY FORUM

Due to COVID, the Quality Forum was not held this year.

2019 - QUALITY FORUM

​Event Details:
Keynote Speaker: 
  • Dr. Matthew Bobel - Reflections of a Squeaky Wheel 

Poster Competition Winners: 
  • Susan Lou of the UMN Internal Medicine program
  • Juan Gonzalez Villamizar of the UMN Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine fellowship
  • Cady Welch of the Regions' Emergency Medicine residency

2018 - QUALITY FORUM

​Event Details:
  • Date:  May, 30, 2018
  • Time:  
  • Location: 

Keynote Speaker: 
  • Brian Hilliard - 

Poster Competition Winners: