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Pre-retreat materials include the agenda, bio sketches for Drs. Les Hall and Elizabeth Seaquist (visiting faculty), planning assumptions and Dr. John Adams’ opening PowerPoint presentation: “Progress, Process and Planning Indicators.” Post-retreat materials will include the reports from the 18 breakout sessions and an opening presentation by UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D. |
The retreat, which is by the Chancellor’s invitation, will be held at Westside Community Conference Center, 3534 S. 108th St., in Omaha.
Two panel discussions — one titled, “Educating for health care quality,” and another titled “Building clinical/translational research” — will be the highlights of the retreat.
“Teaching our future health professionals the importance of health care quality, along with healthy aging and capitalizing on our clinical/translational research capabilities are important steps on the road to becoming a world-class academic health sciences center,” said Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D. “I’m sure ideas will come from the retreat discussions that will help us grow in these areas.”
Les Hall, M.D., an associate professor of clinical internal medicine at the University of Missouri in Columbia, will make a short presentation and participate on the panel on educating for health care quality.
Dr. Hall has served as the University of Missouri’s Director of the Office of Clinical Effectiveness since 2002. In this role he oversees quality improvement and patient safety initiatives at the university’s hospitals and clinics. Dr. Hall has led several initiatives aimed at developing new curricula in health care quality improvement, patient safety and teamwork.
“Dr. Hall is a leading advocate of teaching so as to improve health care quality outcomes,” said UNMC College of Nursing Dean Virginia Tilden, D.N.Sc., who will serve as a moderator for the panel discussion. “He has extensive experience in inter-professional training with the result that students from different disciplines learn to work together before they graduate. I know that retreat participants will find his ideas useful for UNMC to consider.”
Dr. Hall will be joined during the panel discussion by UNMC’s Steve Smith, M.D., and Sheila Ryan, Ph.D. College of Medicine Dean John Gollan, M.D., Ph.D., will join Dr. Tilden as a discussion moderator.
The second panel discussion, titled “Building translational/clinical research,” will feature Elizabeth Seaquist, M.D., professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota. As director of that university’s General Clinical Research Center, and as part of the leadership of University of Minnesota’s Clinical and Translational Science Award, Dr. Seaquist has been involved in redesigning the university’s clinical and translational research enterprise.
“Dr. Seaquist has been involved in clinical research administration for a number of years, but her most recent experience in re-evaluating their enterprise as part of the new Clinical and Translational Science Award application, as well as being knowledgeable about other academic centers who have or are in the process of applying for this award will be most valuable,” said Jennifer Larsen, M.D., associate dean for clinical research in the UNMC College of Medicine, who will join Dr. Seaquist during the panel discussion. “She brings knowledge that we will no doubt find useful as we are assessing how to best enhance our own clinical and translational research enterprise.”
Lynell Klassen, M.D., professor and chairman of the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine, will join Drs. Larsen and Seaquist on the panel.
The retreat also will feature several breakout sessions on topics related to the main panel discussions, during which participants will determine areas UNMC should focus on during the next year. During the final breakout sessions, suggested goals and actions from the earlier sessions will be matched against UNMC’s critical success factors for education, research, community partnerships, cultural competence, economic growth and employee loyalty to create the 2007-10 UNMC strategic plan.
“This retreat always serves as a wonderful time to focus on steps UNMC must take to keep growing as an institution,” Dr. Maurer said. “We have made significant progress, but there is still much to be done. The ideas that come from this retreat will be important in shaping our future development in ways that benefit the people of Nebraska.”