The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality Honoring Our Commitment to Residents, Families, and Staff (2022) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix A: Biographic Sketches
Appendix A: Biographic Sketches
Pages 543-554
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She is co-author of the text The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Nursing (2008) and of Making Health Care Whole: Integrating Spirituality into Patient Care (2010)
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His program of research is focused on technologies used to support patient care delivery, improve patient outcomes, and to identify and address disparities with an emphasis on aging populations. He leads national research studies benchmarking trends in information technology adoption and use.
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He has also served on several Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) technical expert panels, including the recent CMS Coronavirus Commission on Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes.
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Konetzka is an internationally recognized expert in the health policy and economics of long-term and post-acute care. Her research focuses on the incentives created by health care policy, including payment policy, and
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She also serves on the technical expert panel that advises the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on the Nursing Home Compare five-star rating system which publicly reports nursing home quality. Christine A
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Her innovative work in nursing home quality spans 40 years, both in practice and as a leading researcher. She is an international expert in quality measurement in nursing homes.
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He has co-edited multiple editions of Essentials of Family Medicine and Primary Care Geriatrics, and he co-founded the Carolina Alzheimer's Network, a program dedicated to training primary care providers in evidence-based dementia care. Recent research foci include antibiotic stewardship in long-term care, understanding sources of stress and coping among nursing assistants, assisting family caregivers of persons with dementia in assessing and managing medical symptoms, and training nursing assistants to provide better oral hygiene care.
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Travers is the principle investigator of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 4-year Career Development Award through the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program in which she is examining the association of neighborhood disadvantage with nursing home outcomes and a Paul B Beeson Emerging Leader 5-year K76 Award through the National Institute on Aging which in this mixed-method study she will develop a survey instrument aimed to identify unmet needs that are disproportionately driving avoidable nursing home placements.
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She is a core investigator with the VA Health Services Research and Development Service's Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Alice Hersh New Investigator Award from AcademyHealth, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and the American Federation of Medical Research Outstanding Investigator Award.
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. In this capacity, she serves as the director of the Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness, a convening activity that brings together leaders from government, industry, academia, health professional groups and associations, and philanthropic and patient advocacy organizations to discuss key challenges related to improving care for people with serious illness.
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She was the study director for consensus studies on the geriatrics workforce, oral health, ovarian cancer research, and the 2020 report Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults: Opportunities for the Health Care System. She has also directed workshops on the allied health workforce, the use of telehealth to serve rural populations, assistive technologies, hearing loss, and biomarkers of disability.
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Varman interned at Boston Children's Hospital's Office of Government Relations, where she advocated for children's health care issues at the state and federal levels, and at Medecins sans Frontieres, where she researched accessibility of hepatitis C diagnostics. She is a 2020 graduate from Boston University with a master's degree in public health and concentrations in health policy and law as well as community assessment, program design, implementation, and evaluation.
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