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In this week's edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, Vice President at the AMA Center for Health Equity speaks with participants from the Peer Network for Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety program on their strategies to start operationalizing equity into their quality and safety operations.

Panel:

• Aderonke Akingbola, MD, MMM, AGAF, CPE Vice President, Medical Affairs, Ochsner Health
• Judy C. Washington, MD, Associate Chief Medical Officer, Atlantic Medical Group

Moderator: Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, Vice President, Equitable Health Systems, AMA Center for Health Equity

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Introduction
• Introduction of the panelists
• Equity at the intersection of health care quality and safety
• Addressing inequities through quality and safety reporting
• Peer Network framework
• Harm event reporting
• Creating psychological safe spaces
• Building teams to improve safety and equity
• The challenges of transforming the health care system
• Harm event case studies
• Successful outcomes from this work
• Lessons for health systems from the Peer Network

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