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Conference Schedule
Herberman Conference Center (Rooms A (Large), B(Small), and C (Small))
| 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm | Pre-registration Center for Pathology Quality and Healthcare Research UPMC Cancer Pavilion, 2nd Floor, Suite 201 |
| 7:30 am - 8:15 am | Registration and Morning Beverages UPMC Cancer Pavilion, 2nd floor, Herberman Conference Center, Pittsburgh PA |
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| 8:15 am - 8:30 am | Welcome and Description of Conference Activities and Goals Dana Marie Grzybicki, MD, PhD and Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD |
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| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | "Communication: The Key to Diagnostic Testing Patient Safety" Susan E. Sheridan, MIM, MBA  Description |
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| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | Speaker: Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD |
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| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | "Findings from the AHRQ funded patient safety project: 'Improving Patient Safety by Examining Pathology Error'" I Stephen S Raab, MD Description |
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| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Break | |
| 10:45 am - 11:30 am | *** SESSIONS RUNNING CONCURRENTLY *** |
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| Location: Room A "Findings from the AHRQ funded patient safety project: 'Improving Patient Safety by Examining Pathology Error'" II Stephen Raab, MD Description |
Location: Room B "Transforming Care at the Bedside" Tamra Merryman, BSN, MSN, FACHE Description |
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| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | *** SESSIONS RUNNING CONCURRENTLY *** |
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| Location: Room A "Findings from the AHRQ funded patient safety project: 'Improving Patient Safety by Examining Pathology Error'" III Stephen Raab, MD Description |
Location: Room B "Laboratory Patient Safety Projects in Real Time: External Factors Affecting Sustainability" Elizabeth Wagar, MD Description |
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| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:15 pm - 2:00 pm | "System and Cognitive Contributions to Diagnostic Error" Mark Graber, MD Description |
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| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Interactive roundtable discussion of conference content Facilitator: TBD Goal:To draft recommendations for critical areas in laboratory quality improvement in need of continued or new health services research. Roundtable Participant: Mark R. Wick, MD |
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| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Break | |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | "JCAHO Patient Safety Event Taxonomy (PSET)" Stacey Champagne, MA Description |
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| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Interactive roundtable discussion of conference content Facilitator: TBD Goal:To identify practical and feasible quality improvement interventions at least one of which attendees can test in their own laboratories. |
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| 5:30 pm | Adjournment | |
| 8:25 am - 8:30 am | Introduction of Keynote Speaker Dana Marie Grzybicki, MD PhD |
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| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | "The Narcissistic Allure and Pitfalls of the Health Professions" John D. Banja, PhD Description |
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| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | "Use of Decision Analysis for Modeling the Impact of Diagnostic Testing Errors" Mark Roberts, MD Description |
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| 10:00 am - 10:15 am | Break | ||
| 10:15 am - 11:15 am | Interactive roundtable discussion of morning content Facilitator: TBD |
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| 11:15 am - 12:00 pm | *** SESSION RUNNING CONCURRENTLY *** |
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| Location: Room A "Pathology and Patient Safety: The Critical Role of Pathology Informatics in Error Reduction and Quality Initiatives" Michael J. Becich, MD, PhD Description |
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| 12:00 am - 12:45 pm | Lunch | ||
| 12:45 pm - 1:30 pm | *** SESSION RUNNING CONCURRENTLY *** |
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| Location: Room A "Findings from the CDC/University of Pittsburgh Cooperative Agreement 'Assessment of Best Practices for Standardized Quality Assurance Activities in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine'" Dana Marie Grzybicki, MD, PhD Description |
Location: Room B "Reducing Errors in Surgical Pathology: an Industrial View (Lessons from the College of American Pathologists Q-PROBES program and the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative)." David Novis, MD Description |
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| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | "Ambiguity, Uncertainty, and the Unexpected" Dave Sharbaugh, CPA Description |
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| 2:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Interactive roundtable discussion of conference content Facilitator: TBD |
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| 4:00 pm - 4:15 pm | Closing Remarks and Adjournment Dana Marie Grzybicki, MD, PhD and Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD |
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Center for Pathology Quality and Healthcare Research 2006