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Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 349-358
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A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members J Lyle Bootman, Ph.D., Sc.D., Cochair, is dean and professor at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy.
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Dr. Bates' primary interest has been the use of computer systems to improve care, and he has conducted extensive work on evaluating the incidence and preventability of adverse drug events.
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He received his doctor of pharmacy degree from Idaho State University. He has pharmacy experience in the hospital, retail, long-term care, and home health areas.
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Cohen, Sc.D., is president of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) , an independent nonprofit agency that reviews medication error reports submitted by practitioners to the national medication errors reporting programs operated by the U.S.
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Dr. Cohen serves as associate editor of the Journal of Hospital Pharmacy and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Intravenous Nurse Society, Journal of Patient Safety, Nursing 2006, and Healthcare Risk Control (ECRI, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania)
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Mayden Award for outstanding contributions in the field of medical informatics, and in 1997 he received the Oslers Cloak award for excellence in caring and curing from Intermountain Health Care. His major experience and interests have been in the design, development, and evaluation of computerized tools for the selection and management of anti-infective agents, computer methods to identify and reduce adverse drug events and adverse medical device events, computerized methods to identify patients needing isolation, computerized methods to identify and reduce hospitalacquired infections, and use of medical device interfaces to improve patient safety.
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Dr. Gurwitz's most recent research efforts relate to developing and testing interventions to reduce the risk of medication errors that lead to adverse drug events in the elderly.
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She is also founding director of the Academic Center for Evidence-based Practice, where she works to advance evidence-based quality improvement through research, education, and practice. She is an investigator with the Veterans Evidence-based Research, Dissemination, and Implementation Center for the Veterans Health Administration, with emphasis on systematic reviews and organizational change for evidence-based quality improvement.
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APPENDIX A 357 evidence-based practice processes. She serves as an advisor to hospitals seeking magnet recognition status and faculty updating education programs on the topic of evidence-based quality improvement.
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He was senior associate editor of the Journal of General Internal Medicine and is associate editor of Quality of Life Research, the Journal of Patient Safety, and AHRQ Web M&M. He was coprincipal investigator for an AHRQ-funded grant that developed a web-based incident reporting system for intensive care units.
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