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Contact: Caitlin Jenney, 303.315.6376, pager 303.266.0680, Caitlin.Jenney@uchsc.edu
University of Colorado Denver's Practice Change Fellows Program Announces Newest Participants
AURORA, Colo. (June 4, 2008) - Ten fellows from around the country have been selected to participate in the Practice Change Fellows Program at the University of Colorado Denver. The two-year program is aimed at building leadership capacity among nurses, physicians and social workers who have operational responsibility for geriatric care.
These fellows will receive $90,000 and the support of local and national mentors to further develop their leadership skills and complete a project with the goal of implementing a new geriatric service line or aging program. The following ten individuals were chosen for the 2008 class:
| Name | Affiliation | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Ellen Barrington, MSN, RN, BC | Ocean Medical Center | A Comprehensive Approach to Delirium |
| James W. Campbell, MD, MS | The MetroHealth System | Impact of an Integrated Service Model on Quality and Costs of Care Delivery |
| Curtis Lee Greer, MD | North Mississippi Medical Clinics, Inc | Improving Care of Older Adults with CHF in a Rural Health System |
| Elizabeth B. Hart, MD | Maine General Health | Cultivating Meaningful Conversations to Guide Care |
| Christina McQuiston, MD | Mission Hospitals/Mission Health System | Geriatric Hip Fracture Program |
| Amy Minnich, RN, BSN | Geisinger Health System | Implementing a Geriatric Service Line within Geisinger Health System |
| Tziona Regev, LCSW, LSW | Harris County Hospital District | Capacity Assessment and Treatment Model |
| Karyn Rizzo, RN, MS, CNS | The Miriam Hospital | Geriatric Education through Nursing Evaluation & Specific Interventions for Successful Healing |
| Miriam E. Schwartz, MD, MA, PhD | Gallup Indian Medical Center | Comprehensive Geriatric Care of Elderly Native Americans |
| James Tew, MD | UPMC Health System | Enhancing Transitional Care Quality in Elderly Patients Discharged from Psychiatric Hospitals |
The program will be directed by Eric A. Coleman, MD, MPH, from UC Denver's Division of Health Care Policy and Research (HCPR), and Nancy Whitelaw, PhD, from the National Council on Aging (NCOA).
The Practice Change Fellows program is supported by the Atlantic Philanthropies and the John A. Hartford Foundation and administered by the University of Colorado Denver. To learn more about the program, please visit www.practicechangefellows.org.
The University of Colorado Denver is one of three universities in the University of Colorado system. Located in Denver on the Downtown Campus and at Ninth & Colorado Blvd., and on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colo., University of Colorado Denver offers more than 100 degrees and programs in 13 schools and colleges and serving more than 28,000 students in Metro Denver and online. For more information, visit the web site at administration.ucdenver.edu or the UC Denver Newsroom at http://www.uchsc.edu/news.
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