Collective Conversations: Recent Episodes
Health Systems Collective
Sponsored by the UW Department of Medicine Health Systems team, Collective Conversations is a series of conversations with people and groups, both in and beyond the Department, working on improving health through better systems of care.
improve health through better health care systems. I’m your host, Joy Lee, a program manager for the Value and Systems Science Lab led by Dr. Joshua Liao who is a physician and Associate Chair for Health Systems in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington.
In today’s conversation, you'll hear from Dr. Erin Kross.
Dr. Kross is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the University of Washington and co-Director of the Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence at UW Medicine. She directs an active research and quality improvement program which focuses on improving palliative care for patients with serious illness and their families, with current funding from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the National Institute of Aging at the NIH. She co-directs a T32 from NHLBI for post-doctoral research training in palliative care and mentors many residents, fellows, and junior faculty. In addition to her clinical work and research program, she is a clinical educator for trainees and members of the interprofessional team.
Her research experience in palliative care within outpatient and inpatient settings is very insightful, and I am excited for you to listen in.
Welcome to Collective Conversations, a series of discussions aimed at highlighting people and groups working to improve health through better health care systems. I’m your host, Joy Lee, a program manager for the Value and Systems Science Lab led by Dr. Joshua Liao who is a physician and Associate Chair for Health Systems in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington.
In today's conversation you'll hear from Dr. Kari Nelson.
Karin (“Kari”) Nelson, MD, MSHS, is a general internist and health services researcher at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System. She is a Professor of Medicine in the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine, Adjunct Professor in the UW School of Public Health and core investigator at the Seattle Health Services Research & Development (HSR&D) Center of Innovation (COIN). Dr. Nelson is the director of the Primary Care Analytics Team (PCAT) for the VHA’s Office of Primary Care. She won the 2015 VHA HSR&D’s Best Research Paper of the Year Award for Nelson, et al. “Implementation of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA)” published in JAMA Internal Medicine. She actively mentors many junior faculty and is past Co-Director for the MD fellowship program in the Seattle HSR&D COIN. She is a primary care physician at the VA Puget Sound.
Welcome to Collective Conversations, a series of discussions aimed at highlighting people and groups working to improve health through better health care systems. I’m your host, Joy Lee, a program manager for the Value and Systems Science Lab led by Dr. Joshua Liao who is a physician and Associate Chair for Health Systems in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington.
In today’s conversation, you'll hear from Dr. Thuan Ong
Dr. Ong is a faculty member in the Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine at the University of Washington (UW). He is also Medical Director of the UW Post-Acute Care (PAC) and the PAC Clinical Service. Dr. Ong has practiced and provided clinical leadership in the many nursing home environments, and practiced inpatient and outpatient medicine at Harborview Medical Center, since 2008. He has developed intimate knowledge of these practice environments and worked collaboratively with interdisciplinary members of healthcare to meet the needs of geriatric patient populations. Thuan has a broad background in leading development and implementation of policies and procedures to improve the clinical care received by patients discharging to skilled nursing facilities and throughout the care continuum.
I am confident you'll learn a lot from this conversation with Dr. Ong and his leadership in post-acute care at UW Medicine.
Welcome to Collective Conversations, a series of discussions aimed at highlighting people and groups working to improve health through better health care systems. I’m your host, Joy Lee, a program manager for the Value and Systems Science Lab led by Dr. Joshua Liao who is a physician and Associate Chair for Health Systems in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington.
In today's conversation you'll hear from Dr. Joshua Rosen.
Josh is a general surgery resident at the University of Washington and an NIH T-32 funded research fellow at the Surgical Outcomes Research Center (SORCE). After studying Nanotechnology Engineering at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada he completed medical school at Yale School of Medicine where he completed a research year studying the outcomes of lung cancer treatment in large databases. His current research work focuses on decision-making in acute care surgery. He eventually plans to pursue fellowship training in trauma surgery and surgical critical care.
His recent experience in developing a decision aid for acute care settings with the help of a multidisciplinary team is an excellent example we can all learn from. I'm excited for you to listen in.
Welcome to Collective Conversations, a series of discussions aimed at highlighting people and groups working to improve health through better health care systems. I’m your host, Joy Lee, a program manager for the Value and Systems Science Lab led by Dr. Joshua Liao who is a physician and Associate Chair for Health Systems in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington.
In today’s conversation, you'll hear from Dr. Ashok Reddy.
Dr. Reddy is a primary care physician and an experienced health services researcher at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System, where he also serves as the chief scientific officer for the VA’s Primary Care Innovation Lab working to rapidly evaluate and scale quality improvement programs in primary care at the Seattle VA.
I'm confident that you'll appreciate the strategies he shares based off of his experience from PCIL.
Welcome to Collective Conversations, a series of discussions aimed at highlighting people and groups working to improve health through better health care systems. I’m your host, Joy Lee, a program manager for the Value and Systems Science Lab led by Dr. Joshua Liao who is a physician and Associate Chair for Health Systems in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington.
In today’s conversation, you'll hear from Dr. Kevin Duan.
Dr. Duan, is Acting Instructor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the University of Washington He is a health services researcher, studying how health systems and policies can be optimized to improve respiratory health and value for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD.
I'm certain his work will interest you, and together we'll look forward to hearing updates from Kevin in the future.
Welcome to Collective Conversations, a series of discussions aimed at highlighting people and groups working to improve health through better health care systems. I’m your host, Joy Lee, a program manager for the Value and Systems Science Lab led by Dr. Joshua Liao who is a physician and associate chair for Health Systems in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington.
Join us in this conversation to learn more about Dr. Nisha Bansal's research and expertise on the intersection of kidney and heart disease.
Nisha Bansal MD MAS is an Associate Professor and the Arthur Stach Family Endowed Professor in the Division of Nephrology at the University of Washington (UW). She is also an investigator in the Kidney Research Institute, the Director of Nephrology Clinical and Research Education and the Director of the Kidney-Heart Service at UW. Dr. Bansal completed college at Brown University, her medical degree at the University of Connecticut and her Master’s Degree in Clinical Research at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Tufts Medical Center, followed by completion of nephrology fellowship at UCSF. Dr. Bansal’s clinical and research expertise is in hypertension and the intersection of kidney and heart disease.
Welcome to Collective Conversations, a series of discussions aimed at highlighting people and groups working to improve health through better health care systems. I’m your host, Joy Lee, a program manager for the Value and Systems Science Lab led by Dr. Joshua Liao who is a physician and Associate Chair for Health Systems in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington.
In today's conversation you'll hear from Dr. John Scott.
John is the Chief Digital health Officer at UW Medicine. He chairs the Washington State Telehealth Collaborative and serves on the Telehealth committee for the Infectious Disease Society of America. The Washington State Medical Association recognized him with the Grassroots Advocate Award in 2020 for his work in advocating for policy changes for telemedicine at the state and federal level.
Dr. Scott provides a lot of great insights to this timely topic of digital medicine and I'm confident you'll appreciate them as well.
Welcome to Collective Conversations, a series of discussions aimed at highlighting people and groups working to improve health through better health care systems. I’m your host, Joy Lee, a program manager for the Value and Systems Science Lab led by Dr. Joshua Liao who is a physician and associate chair for Health Systems in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington.
In today's conversation you'll hear from Nkem Akinsoto and Dr. Vicky Fang.
Nkem Akinsoto is the Assistant Director at UW Medicine Primary Care and Population Health. She provides programmatic oversight for programs to support UW Medicine’s shift to wellness, disease prevention, and achieving population health goals. Nkem is responsible for implementing strategies to achieve success in key population health-focused metrics at the UW Medicine Primary Care Clinics. She monitors the progress of priority quality measures, develops and maintains visibility for their reporting. Nkem has several years of experience working in health care and population health. She has been in various positions supporting Process and Quality Improvement for UW Medicine’s Population Health programs since 2016. Nkem received her Bachelor of Science in Applied Biology from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria, and a Master of Science Degree in Public Health Research from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Dr. Victoria Bobrycki Fang is the Medical Director for Primary Care and Population Health at the University of Washington. She directs medical care delivered in a network of 15 primary clinics located throughout King County and in San Juan County. Partnering with Nkem Akinsoto, she is working on outreach to populations served by UW Medicine and on improving equity in health care. She earned her Bachelor’s degree at Harvard University, medical degree at Tufts University and completed internal medicine training at the University of California in San Diego. She has practiced as a primary care internist for the past 20 years at the UW Federal Way Clinic.
Welcome to Collective Conversations, a series of discussions aimed at highlighting people and groups working to improve health through better health care systems. I’m your host, Joy Lee, a program manager for the Value and Systems Science Lab led by Dr. Joshua Liao who is a physician and associate chair for Health Systems in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington.
In today's conversation you'll hear from Dr. Anisha Ganguly.
Dr. Ganguly is a recent graduate from the University of Washington internal medicine residency program’s primary care track. She received her undergraduate training in biochemistry and Spanish literature at the University of Chicago and her MD and MPH from University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. During her time at the UW, she completed the Health Systems Pathway and conducted research focused on addressing racial disparities in access to mammography in Seattle as part of the UW Medicine Breast Health Equity initiative. Upon completion of her residency, she has returned to her home state of Texas as the inaugural Health Equity Fellow at Parkland Memorial Hospital and UT Southwestern Medical Center, where she will continue to lead research focused on equitable care delivery and practice primary care for marginalized populations.
Welcome to Collective Conversations, a series of discussions aimed at highlighting people and groups working to improve health through better health care systems. I’m your host, Joy Lee, a program manager for the Value and Systems Science Lab led by Dr. Joshua Liao who is a physician and associate chair for Health Systems in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington.
In today’s conversation, you'll hear from Dr. Barak Gaster.
Barak Gaster is a professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine where he’s been a primary care provider at UWMC-Roosevelt for more than 20 years. For the past 7 years he has focused on improving care for dementia, leading to the development of the Cognition in Primary Care Program. He’s also the primary care liaison for the UW Memory and Brain Wellness Center, a co-investigator for the UW Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, a member of the Washington State Dementia Action Collaborative, and is on the national committee which is creating the CDC’s next version of the Healthy Brain Initiative. In addition to developing better ways to evaluate cognition, he’s been focused on improving advance care planning for dementia, helping people express preferences and goals for care with the goal of getting better care. He helped develop the Dementia Directive which has been downloaded more than 150,000 times and been featured in the New York Times and on NPR.