2025- 11th annual Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Symposium

General Winners

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Department

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Barriers to Lung Cancer Screening Among Overdue Patients at Stanford Primary Care Clinics

Jowa (Zhuo) Shi, MD and Sania Choudhary

Jake Jungman Kim

Carolyn C. Chang, MD

Laura Shula, PA

Ntemena Kapula

Jinglu Wang

Kevin Chang, MD

Irmina A. Elliott, MD

Brandon A. Guenthart, MD

Douglas Z. Liou, MD

Leah M. Backhus, MD MPH

Mark F. Berry, MD

Joseph B. Shrager, MD

Natalie S. Lui, MD

Internal Medicine

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Quality, Safety & Health Equity

Complex Care Program Pilot

Samantha Izuno

Hela Ahmadi, BS

Elizabeth Kayser, MSW

Ayesha Khan, MD​

Emergency

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Quality, Safety & Health Equity

Emergency Department Admitting Service Triage Using? Retrieval-Augmented Language Models

Dong-han Yao MD

Adi Badhwar MS,

Wendy Li MD,

Nicholas Hall MD,

Yoseph Semma MD,

Shawna Greenleaf MD,

Debadutta Dash MD MPH

Emergency

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Enhancing Surgical Discharge Communication: Standardizing Instructions and Language-Concordant Care to Reduce Readmissions

Joshua Villarreal, MD

Victoria Sanchez, MD

Aderinsola Aderonmu, MD

Farrah Liu, MD

Uma Parikh, MD

Meg Quint, MD

Amin Rezai, MD

Joe Forrester, MD

Surgery

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Innovation/Research/Education

Quality, Safety & Health Equity

Evaluation of wearable Doppler ultrasound to enhance bedside hemodynamic assessment by the Stanford Rapid Response & Critical Care Teams

Carolyn S. Kaufman, MD, PhD

Hoda E. Sayegh, MD

Ryan van Wert, MD

David Svec, MD, MBA.

June Gordon, MD

Lisa Shieh, MD

Internal Medicine

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Innovation/Research/Education

Gaps in Follow-Up and Social Determinant Screening Among Patients Hospitalized for Diabetic Foot Infections: A Retrospective Cohort Study at a Tertiary Care Center

Prerak Juthani MD, MBA           

Arati Nagarkar

Cami Fischmann,

Thompson Uwanomen

Neel Kumar,

Daisuke Furukawa MD

Medicine

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Quality, Safety & Health Equity

Improving Recombinant Zoster Vaccine Uptake in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis A Partnership with Stanford Specialty Pharmacy

Akhil Sood           

Srijana Davaluri, MD

Shrey Gole MD

Christy Bill RN

Alicia Ayala

Esmeralda Escorza

Maria Herrera

Sheila Haidar PharmD

Betty Huang PharmD,

April Ochoa PharmD

Mary Katherine Drew

Janice Lin, MD

Medicine, Division of Immunology & Rheumatology

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Innovation/Research/Education

Quality, Safety & Health Equity

Oncology Rapid Assessment Clinic and Radiology —

Reducing CT Interpretation Turnaround Times"

Andrew Johnston, MD,

Sabine McHugh, PMP

Megan Nadell, BSN, RN

Shantika Devi, MPA-HCA

Anthony Hernandez, RT

Monglan Duong, RT

Lauren Maeda, MD

Gloria Hwang, MD

Uzma Waheed, MD

Radiology

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Quality, Safety & Health Equity

Clinical Pathways to Reduce Urgent and Emergent Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) Length of Stay (LOS)

Heather Cadenhead

Ashley Peterson, MD

Jessica Brodt, MD

Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology

Perioperative

Pain

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Quality, Safety & Health Equity

Preventing Avoidable Readmissions: Ensuring High-Quality Discharges & Reducing Readmission Risk   

David Li           

David Mui

Joshua Villarreal

Quan Tran

Caitlin Parmer-Chow

Brian Schenone

Christine Santiago

Natasha Steele

Nancy Liu

Glenn Croft

Greg Auda

Bill Frederick

Lisa Shieh

Internal Medicine

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Quality, Safety & Health Equity

Multidisciplinary Winners

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All Authors

Department

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Improving Oncofertility Access at Stanford Health Care (SHC) for Patients with Breast and GI Cancers

Nicole Dalal, MD

Jacquelyn Baugher, RN

Gunita Kashyap, MS, MEd

Lauren Kopinec, MSN

Pamela Simon, NP

Dana Stevens, RN 

Dakota White, MBA

Mohana Roy, MD

Kavitha Ramchandran, MD

Kathryn Breudecheck, MS     

Hematology/Oncology

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Patient Experience

Quality, Safety & Health Equity

Targeting High-Cost, Low-Evidence Therapies in Immunocompromised Patients with Stewardship of CMV-IGIV

Ritika Prasad

Brian Lu PharmD

Daniella Veloria PharmD

Emily Mui PharmD

Joanna Nelson MD

Gundeep Dhillon MD MPH

Stanley Deresinski MD

Marisa Holubar MD MS

William Alegria PharmD

Infectious Diseases

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Quality, Safety & Health Equity

"Language Access in Pediatric Perioperative Settings: Insights from Interpreters on Consent

Discussions with Emerging English-Proficient Patients and Families"

Kieran Wallace

Marina H. Faragalla

Clarice Nguyen, MD

James Xie, MD

Anesthesia

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Innovation/Research/Education

Quality, Safety & Health Equity

“1st Call MD/ APP”: Implementation of a Single Occupancy Provider Sign-in Role to Streamline Interdisciplinary Communication

Kristen Dammeyer

Jeffrey Yu, MD

Frederick Damen, MD PhD

Steven Ekman, MD, PhD

Prachi Keni, MD

Whitney Lee, MPH, MPD

Jason Ong, MD

Bethel Mieso, MD

Aydin Zahedivash, MD, MBA

Whitney Chadwick, MD

Pediatrics

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Quality, Safety & Health Equity

PRIORITIZING AND IMPROVING ERGONOMICS IN THE NEUROSURGERY OPERATING ROOM

Maria Jose Cavagnaro,  MD     

Vivek Sanker MBBS

Kim Gallego MPT

Kyle Rampone BSN, RN

Hurjane Vongsachang

Alyssa Gillen,

Atman Desai MD

Neurosurgery

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Employee Engagement and Wellness

Quality, Safety & Health Equity

Honorable Mention

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All Authors

Department

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Type

Triaging of Stroke Code Activations at Stanford Health Care to Optimize Resource Utilization and Workflows: Current State and Opportunities for Intervention

Amine Awad

Jin Kyung Kim

Nicole Burnham

Tyler Irani

Lironn Kraler

Nirali Vora

Neurology

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Quality, Safety & Health Equity

What’s Missing? Improving Care for our Unhoused Patients

Jason X Shen, BA

Devon Lee, BS

De'mond Glynn II, MD

Natasha Steele, MD, MPH Nancy Liu, MD

Lisa Shieh, MD

Bilwa Buchake

Tyler Bangerter MIS

Christine Santiago, MD, MPH

Medicine

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