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Quality Improvement Award

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The Association of Pediatric Program Directors Quality Improvement Award is awarded annually for an outstanding quality improvement project presented during the national APPD Spring Meeting. This award is designed to encourage trainees and APPD members to participate in QI within medical education. Winning candidates are selected based on the quality of work presented in the abstract.

Eligibility Criteria:

  • One of the authors must be a member of the APPD.
  • First-author abstract must be accepted for presentation at the APPD Spring Meeting to be considered.
  • The first-author must present the abstract at the APPD Spring Meeting unless there are extenuating circumstances.

The 2020 APPD Quality Improvement Award recipient is:

Alexandra Kilinsky, DO

Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY

Who Speaks First? Promoting Senior Resident Autonomy on Family Centered Rounds: A QI Initiative

Award Winners

2019

Sara Pavitt, MD

Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Creation and Implementation of a Standardized Tool to Improve Inpatient Consult Communication

2018

Mackenzie Frost, MD

University of Texas Southwestern Medical School

A Quality Improvement Project to Improve Timeliness of Submission of Fellow Evaluations by Neonatology Faculty

2017

Allison Rose MD

Emory University

Improving Resident-Nurse Communication with Collaborative Quality Improvment

2016

Melanie Smith, MD

University of Tennessee

Watcher Initiative Decreases Unsafe Transfers to a Higher Level of Care

2015

Alston E. Dunbar, III, MD, MBA

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center

Teaching Team Integration in the Recognition and Reporting of Patient Safety Events

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